Pacifist

Ethic · Militarist – Pacifist

1 point

Pacifist is an ethic in Stellaris 4.5.2 that costs 1 of the 3 ethic points. It cannot be taken with Fanatic Militarist and Militarist. It gives -10% Empire Size from Pops, +5 Stability and +50 Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls.

Cost: 1 of 3 points
Axis: Militarist – Pacifist
Pops can follow it: yes
Civics needing it: 2
Civics it rules out: 4
ID: ethic_pacifist

What Pacifist 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).

-10%Empire Size from Pops
+5Stability
+50Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls
-25%Attunement with the Eater of Worlds

Cannot use Unrestricted Wars policy
Cannot engage in Indiscriminate Orbital Bombardment

Factions of Pacifist pops

Pop factions whose guiding ethic this is (common/pop_faction_types), with the game's faction icons and election header.

Prosperity

Cannot be taken with

Fanatic Militarist

Militarist

Civics that need Pacifist

Civics whose rules name this ethic as needed (alone or as one of several); the list below them rules it out.

Inward Perfection

Agrarian Idyll

Civics closed to Pacifist empires

Reanimators

Crusader Spirit

Scorched World Heralds

Letters of Marque

Origins and Pacifist

Fruitful Partnership

Closed to Pacifist empires

Mindwardens

Endbringers

In the game

Conflict as a means to an end is a ridiculous concept. It is by nature destructive, destroying what was to be obtained or giving room to grow that which was to be destroyed.

Pacifist: questions

How many points does Pacifist cost?

1 of the 3 ethic points.

What is the opposite of Pacifist?

Fanatic Militarist, Militarist: an empire cannot have both.

Which civics need Pacifist?

Inward Perfection, Agrarian Idyll.

Source: common/ethics and common/governments, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).