Exploration Protocols
Machine IntelligencesCan be changed laterFirst Contact Story PackExploration Protocols is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2 for Machine Intelligences. Requirements: authority Machine Intelligence; Does NOT have a Biological Shipset. Not with civic Determined Exterminator or Driven Assimilator or Hyperspace Calculations or Genesis Architects. It gives +25% Legion Node Experience Gain, +20% First Contact Speed and +3 Monthly Unity from Observation Outposts. DLC: First Contact Story Pack.
- Kind
- Civic
- Group
- Machine Intelligences
- Players can pick it
- yes
- Clashes with
- 12
- ID
civic_machine_exploration_protocol
Exploration ProtocolsWhat Exploration Protocols does
The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.
Start with 2 Exploration Vessels and an Engineering Vessel equipped with Subspace Drives, making them incapable of Hyperlane travel but granting limited Jump Drive abilities.
Gain an increased chance to discover FTL Travel Technologies
Gain 50% more Insight progress from observing pre-FTL Civilizations.
Gain 
Unity every time you finish establishing first contact.
- Start at a technological and infrastructural disadvantage, and with 1K fewer 
Pops than normal
- +25%Legion Node Experience Gain
- +20%First Contact Speed
- +3Monthly Unity from Observation Outposts
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.
- Authority: Machine Intelligence
- Does NOT have a Biological Shipset
- Ship appearance: Biogenesis 01
- Ship appearance: Biogenesis 02
- None of
Cannot be taken with Exploration Protocols
Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.
Inward Perfection
Hyperspace Specialty
Sovereign Guardianship
Genesis Guides
Determined Exterminator
Driven Assimilator
Hyperspace Calculations
Genesis Architects
Biodrones
Hyperspace Trade
Corporate Protectorate
Astrogenesis TechnologiesIn the game
WARNING: Challenging Civic The foundation of this Machine Intelligence's central programming is the drive to catalog exoplanetary life. In pursuit of this directive, it has dedicated much of its resources to crafting a small fleet of vessels capable of limited subspace travel.
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Exploration Protocols: questions
What are the requirements for Exploration Protocols in Stellaris?
authority Machine Intelligence; Does NOT have a Biological Shipset. Not with civic Determined Exterminator or Driven Assimilator or Hyperspace Calculations or Genesis Architects. DLC: First Contact Story Pack.
What can't Exploration Protocols be combined with?
Inward Perfection, Hyperspace Specialty, Sovereign Guardianship, Genesis Guides, Determined Exterminator, Driven Assimilator, Hyperspace Calculations, Genesis Architects, Biodrones, Hyperspace Trade and 2 more — each forbids the other in the files' rules.
What does the Exploration Protocols civic do?
It gives +25% Legion Node Experience Gain, +20% First Contact Speed and +3 Monthly Unity from Observation Outposts, plus the effects its description lists.
Can Exploration Protocols 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 Exploration Protocols?
civic_machine_exploration_protocol (Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/governments/civics/02_gestalt_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).