Genesis Guides

Civic

Can be changed laterThe Machine Age

Genesis Guides is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2. Requirements: Is not Xenophobe; Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic. Not with authority Corporate, Gestalt Consciousness, origin Life-Seeded or Syncretic Evolution or Hard Reset and civic Natural Design or Scorched World Heralds. It gives -25% Terraforming Cost, +25% Terraforming Speed and +60 Add Attunement with the Composer of Strands. DLC: The Machine Age.

Kind: Civic
Group: Regular empires
Players can pick it: yes
Clashes with: 11
ID: civic_guided_sapience

Genesis Guides

What Genesis Guides does

The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.

- Available Colony Ships: Genesis Ark

- Planets Colonized with Genesis Arks:

- Pre-Sapient Pops: +300

- Planetary Features: Genesis Preserve

- Gains Unity from uplifting Pre-Sapient Species

- Cannot build Colony Ships

- Cannot build Alien Zoos

-25%Terraforming Cost
+25%Terraforming Speed
+60Add Attunement with the Composer of Strands

Requirements

Read from the potential and possible blocks (the game's list rules: ethics, authority, civics, origin, species); the wording is ours, the quoted rule texts are the game's.

Not: Authority: Corporate
Not: Ethic: Gestalt Consciousness
Not: Nomadic empire
None of
Is not Xenophobe
- Ethic: Xenophobe
- Ethic: Fanatic Xenophobe
Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic
None of
- Civic: Natural Design
- Civic: Scorched World Heralds

Cannot be taken with Genesis Guides

Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.

Fanatic Purifiers

Natural Design

Eager Explorers

Privatized Exploration

Stargazers

Exploration Protocols

Scorched World Heralds

Devouring Swarm

Pyromanic Instinct

Determined Exterminator

Private Prospectors

In the game

This society is devoted to the creation of emerging species. As the stewards of evolution's potential, they allocate portions of their worlds to safeguard the development of pre-sapient life forms.

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Genesis Guides: questions

What are the requirements for Genesis Guides in Stellaris?

Is not Xenophobe; Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic. Not with authority Corporate, Gestalt Consciousness, origin Life-Seeded or Syncretic Evolution or Hard Reset and civic Natural Design or Scorched World Heralds. DLC: The Machine Age.

What can't Genesis Guides be combined with?

Fanatic Purifiers, Natural Design, Eager Explorers, Privatized Exploration, Stargazers, Exploration Protocols, Scorched World Heralds, Devouring Swarm, Pyromanic Instinct, Determined Exterminator and 1 more — each forbids the other in the files' rules.

What does the Genesis Guides civic do?

It gives -25% Terraforming Cost, +25% Terraforming Speed and +60 Add Attunement with the Composer of Strands, plus the effects its description lists.

Can Genesis Guides be changed after the game starts?

Yes — it can be added or removed later when a civic slot opens or the government is reformed, if its requirements still hold.

What is the ID of Genesis Guides?

civic_guided_sapience (Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/governments/civics/00_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).