Space Horrors

I really like this idea of cosmic horrors being in there. It could easily be remnants of the Virtual or Concrete Endless; I remember one event in ES involved someone accidentally activating the 'killswitch' in Dust or something and making all nations lose a big chunk of dust, or something like that. Random event.  Whose to say some scientist (probably a Sophon) doesn't accidentally push the shiny red button and awaken some sort of guardian machine or let's some sort of genetically engineered space-beast escape the lab?

Making it into a global quest would be awesome. Having unique rewards (tech, weapons, special ship designs, etc) would be amazing. 

Like a giant space monster floating through space. Like from GR's Andromeda episode "Belly of the Beast"

Giant space worms like Empire strikes back?

any one up for space zombies or no? lol

how about a main or minor faction based on it? I think it would be great to play with or against it

Someone kinda copied your idea:  https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/ideas/856-create-dust-monsters-and-other-such-creatures

Not a space kraken, but could be some really strange entitys, fiting with the ES lore.

tesb wrote:

stellaris did this pretty well. the horrors would spawn at game start and each one had a quest chain attached to it.

Could you go into a bit more detail please? How did the horrors act as the game went on, what was the quest chain like, what were the rewards, how badly could they screw over a nation, etc?

stellaris did this pretty well. the horrors would spawn at game start and each one had a quest chain attached to it.

I think it can be done as a Global Quest: they can spawn as a big fleet somewhere in the galaxy and there is a reward for defeating them, much like in EL, where sometimes Guardians spawn as a Quest.

Monsters, from Space Kracken to Giant Amoeba to Rogue Moons, etc. and either as Quests or Ships to be defeated.

If you want something that becomes more dangerous with Dust expenditure, what about using this as a mechanism to insert the Harmony into the late game story?

Upvoted, yet another great idea for late game difficulty and replayability.

Supporting this idea as well, I've had tremendous fun with Stellaris with it's bunch of leviathans and the likes.

Stevezor wrote:

As an idea as to what perhaps the monstrosity(ies?) could be, I remember the Vodyani Great Heretic awakening creatures to rebel against the Church with. 

Drag some of those in perhaps? 

(forgive if they've already been brought up in current iterations of ES2, i find it hard to complete the Vodyani quest chain in time as it stands.)

That's one of the things that would be cool in that there would be race specific monstrosities that would target races that were doing too well. A rogue dust construct would specifically target players that were making too much money. An abstract horror that defies logical thought would target scientifically advanced races. A rampant parasitic infestation would wreak havoc upon players with high populations. The possibilities go on.

As an idea as to what perhaps the monstrosity(ies?) could be, I remember the Vodyani Great Heretic awakening creatures to rebel against the Church with. 

Drag some of those in perhaps? 

(forgive if they've already been brought up in current iterations of ES2, i find it hard to complete the Vodyani quest chain in time as it stands.)

As an idea as to what perhaps the monstrosity(ies?) could be, I remember the Vodyani Great Heretic awakening creatures to rebel against the Church with.
Drag some of those in perhaps? 

Yehp wrote:

To fit in with lore, some of these could be results of endless experiments much like the Morgawr were or rogue endless AI's attached to gigantic space constructs. For variety, I was thinking of one being a a rogue dust construct.

Now you've got a reason for dust cost inflation.

Beware Astronauts, when you're buying stuff with Dust, you feed Da Creepy Monster.

To fit in with lore, some of these could be results of endless experiments much like the Morgawr were or rogue endless AI's attached to gigantic space constructs. For variety, I was thinking of one being a a rogue dust construct.

Or it could be part of the late game adverse event mechanic. Who are those horrors going to be, though, lore-wise?