Galvanic Retrofitting

Civic · Machine Intelligences

Machine IntelligencesLocked after creationInfernals Species Pack

Galvanic Retrofitting is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2 for Machine Intelligences. Requirements: authority Machine Intelligence. Not with origin Synthetic Fertility and civic Biodrones. It gives +75% Colony Infrastructure Refund and +25% Growth Node Experience Gain. DLC: Infernals Species Pack.

Kind: Civic
Group: Machine Intelligences
Players can pick it: yes
Clashes with: 1
ID: civic_machine_galvanic_symbiosis

Galvanic Retrofitting

What Galvanic Retrofitting does

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

- Starts with Living Metal already researched.

- Homeworld has a Living Metal Mass.

- Gain access to special Edicts:

- Centrifugal Siphoning

- Modular Growth Compounds

- Gives access to Living Metal components:

- Regenerative Armor

- Reshaping Projectile Accelerator

- Has access to Colony Decision: Distribute Living Metal.

- Can recruit the Mimetic Strike Force armies.

- Can build a Offworld Expedition Hub in systems with a Molten World for Offworld Prospector Drone jobs.

+75%Colony Infrastructure Refund
+25%Growth Node Experience Gain

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.

Cannot be taken with Galvanic Retrofitting

Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.

Biodrones

In the game

These units have self-repairing frames made of special alloys that combine the benefits of biology and artificial intelligence.

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Galvanic Retrofitting: questions

What are the requirements for Galvanic Retrofitting in Stellaris?

authority Machine Intelligence. Not with origin Synthetic Fertility and civic Biodrones. DLC: Infernals Species Pack.

What can't Galvanic Retrofitting be combined with?

Biodrones — each forbids the other in the files' rules.

What does the Galvanic Retrofitting civic do?

It gives +75% Colony Infrastructure Refund and +25% Growth Node Experience Gain, plus the effects its description lists.

Can Galvanic Retrofitting be changed after the game starts?

No — the files set it as not modifiable after the empire is created (modification = no).

What is the ID of Galvanic Retrofitting?

civic_machine_galvanic_symbiosis (Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/governments/civics/02_gestalt_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).