
Gestalt Consciousness
Gestalt Consciousness is the gestalt ethic in Stellaris 4.5.2 that costs 3 of the 3 ethic points. It gives -20% War Exhaustion Gain, +1 Monthly Influence and +2 Encryption.
What Gestalt Consciousness gives
Country modifiers from the ethic's country_modifier block, as the game prints them; then what the ethic allows or rules out (its tags, in the game's words).
- -20%War Exhaustion Gain
- +1
Monthly Influence - +2Encryption
- +50Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls
Disables Tutorial
Cannot use Democratic, Oligarchic, Dictatorial, or Imperial authority
Rulers are Immortal
Native Pops are not affected by Happiness and will not join Factions
Native Pops belong to the Drone Living Standard and do not require Consumer Goods
Native Pops can not survive in non-Gestalt Consciousness empires
Can use the No Retreat War Doctrine
Factions of Gestalt Consciousness pops
Pop factions whose guiding ethic this is (common/pop_faction_types), with the game's faction icons and election header.

Civics that need Gestalt Consciousness
Civics whose rules name this ethic as needed (alone or as one of several); the list below them rules it out.
Origins and Gestalt Consciousness
In the game
We reach into the void. The vast expanse becomes us.
Gestalt Consciousness: questions
How many points does Gestalt Consciousness cost?
3 of the 3 ethic points.
Which civics need Gestalt Consciousness?
Genesis Architects.
Source: common/ethics and common/governments, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).