
Selective Kinship
Selective Kinship is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2. Requirements: Is not Xenophile or Fanatic Egalitarian; Incompatible with Synthetic Ascension. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, authority Corporate, civic Fanatic Purifiers or Scorched World Heralds, origin Broken Shackles and 1 more. It gives +7.5% Citizen Happiness while sharing planet with same Species Class and +2.5% Citizen Happiness while oppressing other Species Classes. DLC: Lithoids Species Pack.
What Selective Kinship does
The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.
Opinion of Empires with shared Species Class: +100
Opinion of other Empires: -50
Refugee Attraction with our Species Class: +30%
Refugee Attraction with other Species Classes: -20%
Pops of our Species Class have Full Citizenship
Other
Pops are barred from Full Citizenship
- +7.5%Citizen Happiness while sharing planet with same Species Class
- +2.5%Citizen Happiness while oppressing other Species Classes
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: Ethic: Gestalt Consciousness
- Not: Authority: Corporate
- Is not Xenophile or Fanatic Egalitarian
- None of
- Not: Origin: Broken Shackles
- Incompatible with Synthetic Ascension
- Species archetype: Mechanical
- Not: Species archetype: Machine
Cannot be taken with Selective Kinship
Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.
In the game
In an uncertain universe, only kin can be trusted. This civilization is selective about the species it defines as equals.
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Selective Kinship: questions
What are the requirements for Selective Kinship in Stellaris?
Is not Xenophile or Fanatic Egalitarian; Incompatible with Synthetic Ascension. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, authority Corporate, civic Fanatic Purifiers or Scorched World Heralds, origin Broken Shackles and species Machine. DLC: Lithoids Species Pack.
What can't Selective Kinship be combined with?
Fanatic Purifiers and Scorched World Heralds — each forbids the other in the files' rules.
What does the Selective Kinship civic do?
It gives +7.5% Citizen Happiness while sharing planet with same Species Class and +2.5% Citizen Happiness while oppressing other Species Classes, plus the effects its description lists.
Can Selective Kinship 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 Selective Kinship?
civic_selective_kinship (Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/governments/civics/00_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).