Proposed Stellaris Invicta S2 Factions

The Templin Insitute put up five factions as possible choice for the focus of **Stellaris Invicta Season 2** to be voted by the Patreons.

## Eternal Kreventum

The signs were slow and subtle. Few would have noticed them had they even thought to look in the first place. Now the Aberration is complete and the great harvest can begin.

The Hive Mind of Eternal Kreventum is rarely an overwhelming power that imparts its will onto humanity. Instead, it utilizes mankind like a puzzle, placing individuals and groups in the places and positions where they can do the most good. With knowledge of its existence previously limited to a selext few, the spread of the *Understanding*  across the entirety of humanity has a created a degree of strain between the old guard and the Aberrants.

## United Terran Protectorates

Through the patronage of the The Collaborators, mankind was saved and welcomed into a peaceful Galactic Community. Now the time has finally arrived for humanity to prove it's worth and spread the glory of The Collaborators across the stars.

The United Terran Protectorates find themselves in a difficult position. They are dependent upon their benefactors to survive but unsure if they can trust them. They must walk the line far enough to determine the truth and then strike when the time is right.

## Holy Solar Empire

The fires of Atomic Gods turned the world into a desolate wasteland, and brought new truths to the few who survived. Now, under the leadership of a mysterious figure who fell from the high heavens, they have laid claim to the entire galaxy.

The Holy Solar Empire is a mess. Only with the unity of the Solar Legions, the hundreds of Kingdoms that compromise them, together with the various faiths and cults that make up what is left of the world, can the High Solar rule with any degree of efficiency. To make matters worse, the High Solars are typically insane.

## Antares Confederacy

6 million souls departed for the distant Antares Colonies, the largest settlement campaign of the colonization era. They had expected to be welcomed by a thriving settlement, what they found instead was a hostile alien wilderness in an unexplored region of space and far from their intended destination.

The Antares Confederacy was established for the sole purpose of re-establishing contact with Earth. It is on this issue alone that the constituent nations of the Confederacy are united and there remains the strong possibility of secession or civil war.

## United Federation of Nations

After a century of famine, poverty, environmental collapse and rapidly expanding wars, mankind finally placed its faith in itself, risking everything on the creation of a new and eager institution.

The United Federation of Nations is in many ways a "blank slate" with the opportunity to develop in any number of ways. This is meant to represent the divided state of Earth, with competing member-nations looking to influence the greater Federation.

## Trivia

On 7th of August, there are 56% voted the Confederate Republics of Antares as the focus of Stellaris Invicta Season 2.

On 21st of November 2020, during the second livestream of Stellaris Invicta Season 2, the first revelations of Earth's fate came to light, in game lore, for the Confederate Republics of Antares. This was the first time that Stellaris Invicta's audience and participants learned, that the ancestral homeland of Antares citizens in this series had become part of the United Terran Protectorates - thus a re-use of one of the candidate factions for season 2. The Fallen Empire acting as parent to the United Terran Protectorates in this campaign is known as the Screk Archivists.