Payback
Payback is an origin in Stellaris 4.5.2. Requirements: Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic; Does NOT have a Tankbound Civic. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, civic Oppressive Autocracy or Fanatic Purifiers or Pompous Purists or Slaver Guilds or Indentured Assets or Pharma State and species Machine. It gives +15% Damage to Militarily Superior Empires. DLC: First Contact Story Pack.
- Kind
- Origin
- Group
- Regular empires
- Players can pick it
- yes
- ID
origin_payback
PaybackWhat Payback does
The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.
- Homeworld:
- Colony Modifiers: Unified Purpose
- Home System: The Aftermath of Battle Archaeology Site
- One Advanced AI Empire and several Pre-FTL Civilizations regardless of the Galaxy Settings
- One Pre-FTL Civilization: Uplifted with the Broken Shackles origin
- Initial 
Pops: -1K
- Homeworld:
- Debris Field Planetary Modifier
- Ship Debris: +6
- Devastation: 33%
- Home System: Resource Deposits are unexploited
- Missing Starting Technologies:
- +15%Damage to Militarily Superior Empires
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
- None of
- Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic
- Does NOT have a Tankbound Civic
- Not: Species archetype: Machine
- Not: Nomadic empire
In the game
WARNING: Challenging Origin This civilization has been visited by an alien empire who forcibly enlightened and enslaved them. They have repelled their invaders, but will they return?
Try it in the empire builder →
Payback: questions
What are the requirements for Payback in Stellaris?
Does NOT have an Eager Explorers Civic; Does NOT have a Tankbound Civic. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, civic Oppressive Autocracy or Fanatic Purifiers or Pompous Purists or Slaver Guilds or Indentured Assets or Pharma State and species Machine. DLC: First Contact Story Pack.
What does the Payback origin do?
It gives +15% Damage to Militarily Superior Empires, plus the effects its description lists.
What is the ID of Payback?
origin_payback (Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/governments/civics/00_origins.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).