Using the Sweep, of course, does. Playing with a bunch of mods, decided to Neutron Sweep my unfriendly neighbour's planets because their garrison strength is just unreasonably high. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. Reply Muchi1228. Neutron sweep kills everyone on the planet and allows you to swoop in and colonize it. ago. You can invade after to retake the planet but I think it's converted and you'll need to terraform it back. Either type of bombardment will turn a planet into a tomb world if you kill all the pops on it. Get Neutron Sweep Colossus, release unimportant planets as vassals, after ten years annihilate them, recolonise, repeat. It’s just more “humane” in in-game terms. I could have sworn I had the neutron sweep as fanatical purifiers in the past. Schmeethe • Determined Exterminators • 4 yr. 0 unless otherwise noted. CryptoPlanet Cracker - War type. Drowning my enemies seems like a bad way to go for them, World Cracking is too fast, vaporizing just happens. You can deal with the planet directly or save the colony by invading before all pops are purged. Yes. This vassal is also a member of my federation. The Neutron Sweep and World Cracker fire and finish their work so fast the planet and its population are blipped from existence in moments. Otherwise its just gonna sit there for nothing. I have a colossus. In general many of the late game ships, weapons and infrastructures only provide a marginal advantage compared to combinations of other stuff already available to. Yes, it it kills the last pop. Per page: 15 30 50. You're unlikely to have enough repeatable tech to match the FE any time soon, so go for quantity over quality and send an immense amount of ships. Previous Post. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. As the tittle say, the Prethoryn Scourge spawn about 20~30 system away from my empire. All Colossus Weapons. With some restrictions. ago. They are the primary way of interacting with objects and entities in the galaxy via specific ship orders. While the colossus did do its job after finishing the firing process, it did nothing DURING the process. Sort of in the deep end of both stellaris and internet in general. Lovely. Authoritarian, Militarist, Spiritualist + Strong & Traditional species traits to increase the Unity production even further, since Soldier is a worker class job. pc_egg_cracked. Just casualties of war. Not yet. The Global Pacifier is a Colossus weapon that, when activated, transforms a planet into some kind of Shielded World. 416K subscribers in the Stellaris community. This will allow you to find the pop ID number. Neutron sweep kills the entire colony, but leaves the planet intact and habitable. Playing with a bunch of mods, decided to Neutron Sweep my unfriendly neighbour's planets because their garrison strength is just unreasonably high. This makes it the perfect symbol of fear for an authoritarian-spiritualist empire. I tried throwing a troop transport at the planet, and while it turned it hostile, it didn't allow me to use the Colossus. 2] Thread starter Arclord Dracien; Start date Mar 17, 2023;. This page was last edited on 5 April 2018, at 07:39. From what I recall, purging Hive-Minded pops does not incur a diplomatic penalty. Go into the species tab, choose a species and set there rights,change the rights to undesireable and choose a way of removing them. Angeline Gauthier commands her forces, almost three times as expansive as the enemy’s defences, with a firm and steady hand, moving to deny casualties. Neutron Sweep Colossus rather than fighting ground battles. Have fun! Also got a tiny discord now for. delonewolf. I am currently researching the world pacifier, it showed up in my physics research. Iguesssowtfnot • Evolutionary Mastery • 5 yr. Colossus without apocalypse DLC. It can be a mass graveyard for the planet's original inhabitants, but it doesn't have to be. Stellaris Dev Diary #318 - Announcing Astral Planes. dennis. If you destroy or shield it you cannot use it anymore. 78. So I have the colossus and at first I only armed it with a world cracker. Neutron sweep. Which results in a colossus that serves as a nice lawn ornament. Yeah I tried research_technology tech_pk_neutron. Yes that's the point: after a neutron sweep you can't just land troops or resettle or whatever, the planet is marked as coloniseable. Technology. I just tried out both the world cracker and the neutron sweep on some non-synthetically ascended xeno scum, and I noticed something odd. Mpg clans: dinosaur reptile barbaric despoilers. Spiritualist can't use the neutron beam. Further, it leads people to then make stupid suggestions, or get frustrated because they don't understand how much of the rest of the game works since they have never had to engage with it. 3. Redirect page. i don't know if its allowed you to blow them up with a planet cracker, because i would primarily use the neutron sweep armament instead. Originally posted by Mistfox: I'm not sure what happens if you crack the planet they're over, but a Neutron Sweep leaves the planet in a ready-to-colonize state. So basically a neutron sweep should probably destroy pretty much all agriculture districts (pretty much all build-up districts, and most of the agriculture slots as well, since the foundation for plant and animal life you could culture just wouldn't be there anymore), but leave the other districts and buildings. The world cracker, the neutron sweep, the shield generator, the Spiritualist laser (only available to Spiritualist), and the assimilation beam (only available to Driven Assimilators). I haven't noticed the grace period, hence me posting the question. I made a skit to demonstrate! TAKE 1_ Me, the emporer: At last the time has come! Fire the death beam, and blow those scum-sucking slugs out of existence! Colossus AI: INVALID. So, I'm new to the game, it's my first play through and I have a hive mind vassal and it says it will cost me 1500 influence and I will pay 5 influence a month for 300 months to integrate it. - If you want to use the planet afterwards, use the Neutron Sweep. I'm planning on using it on a fallen empire home world. “Researched. GloatingSwine • 4 mo. Subscribe. in my Recent 3. In fact I conquered a primitive world and exterminated 8 pops and after that I was finding the same species on different empires' planets everywhere. Basically the planet became colonizable and, after completing your colony, you've every building already built, but in a ruined state. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. ; About Stellaris Wiki; Mobile view Final Thoughts. Dont listen to the fookin kneelers telling you to Crack or Neutron sweep the planet. Then comes the: World Cracker. The achievement description says denounce but I read that's actually declaring the empire crisis. Spiritualists are supposed to get the option of the neutron sweep if they can't pick the god ray (you need to have Utopia dlc and mind over matter ascension perk or not have the dlc and have the telepathy tech), but they forgot to negate the conditions, so if you qualify for the god ray then you also get the neutron sweep as an option. From a certain standpoint, the neutron sweep is probably better, as it's easier to terraform & recolonise instead of harvesting the chunks of planet for resources. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. id imagine if it was 100% of all life there would be no ecosystem to recover. NoUsernamePlsHelp • 3 yr. If you leave the planet uninhabited afterwards, nothing happens, but as soon as you recolonize it, the ghost pops start costing upkeep. . It inflicts -20% Happiness and 999% Spiritualist Attraction in addition to listed effects (forcing Spiritualist ethics, kills all robot/gestalt pops). TheTerribleness Anarcho-Tribalism • 6 yr. You my friend have discovered the Katzen fallen empire, dreamt up by the madman behind the Gigastructural Engineering mod. Discussion. The law says use of world crackers is a violation. ) Pops: all pops you have killed via bombardment, colossus attacks (cracker, neutron sweep. ago. I select Neutron Sweep. Uses Cleanser-class Colossus, equipped with Neutron Sweep; High missile reliance with high anti-armor armory; Large ships with extra point defense and shield over armor advised; They use shroud techs, which cannot be reverse-engineered; Psychic admirals provide +10% fire rate and +15% evasion. Music from the FTL soundtrack. ago. Though personally, keep their pops too. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. I'm hoping its a lot, but knowing Stellaris; wiping out 50% of their population might just amount to like 5 war exhaustion. Global pacifiers and world crackers will basically remove the planet from the game. Mar 3, 2020. 3. Neutron sweep. Redirect page. I'm pretty sure neutron sweep leaves everything intact, but the population. In this vein, I really think that Paradox should focus on internal politics, adding more megastructures, and adding more non-violent ways we can interact with other empires. Members Online. danilov Dec 20, 2018 @ 9:30pm. -1000 means there is no surrender, at all. More importantly though, the actual book is present in the game. I finished the colossus special project, selecting the neutron sweep as my weapon. Fun if you want a colonisable planet or want to kill them, but all buildings will be destroyed. You don't want all that investment in shielding planets to be undone in a couple decades with a special project. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by…Stellaris. but I went with neutron sweep over core cracker since I'd rather have planets to inhabit) except that they take forever to charge their weapon, then another forever to actually fire the weapon. My motto is "if unsure, keep cracking". 000. 9K views 5 years ago. Basically the planet gives up as the face imminent destruction, only case where they wouldn't surrender is if they know they'll be killed anyways. When I completed it the game didnt give me anything to put in the weapon slot. Callumunga • 21 days ago. Neutron Sweep All Pops on the planet are killed. World cracker is cool and nice with your galactic imperium but doesn’t do anything. Owned planets can be targeted but will also gain −20% pop Happiness for 10 years. Global Pacifier puts a permanent shield around a planet, functionally the same as cracking it but people hate you less. Reply reply TalmageMcgillicudy • I typically just bombard till my armies arrive unless i have other targets to take care of in said sector of space. The true Xenophile experience is trying to colonize a planet in the lategame and having your game lag for 10 seconds as the game tries to show all available species and their variants. Your art some how increases both xenophile and xenophobe ethics attraction. I mean, the colossus is overall just pretty lights make planet go boom. steam page: will have to use debugtooltip to see EACH INDIVIDUAL POPS ID then you have to do Kill_pop # (#)=the number designation of that pop. of. #5. I made it to repeatable techs and it still never showed. It turns all but one pop of the targeted planet into pre-sapients, gives them a special trait and destroys all armies. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. i think in the past iterations of the game, a colossus could attack a populated habitat or ring world. Resettle everyone off it, the last pop will cost extra to resettle but will abandon the colony. Hive mind vassal integration. You cleanse the planet of all life. I’m a Content Designer on Stellaris. Bombardment damage to defense armies needs to be higher for it to be a practical alternative. The defenders can only pick javonian though. Screw normal world crackers, this bad boy takes 5 days to crack a world, and can jump across half of the galaxy with jump drive. Storm Jul. All the while, the colossus draws enemies like flies. Stellaris. I get to keep the infrastructure intact but without all the hassle that comes with the xeno scum. Soooo, I get to the ship designer and no weapon is available. They're fine to wipe. You can invade after to retake the planet but I think it's converted and you'll need to terraform it back. Steam overlay does present occasional problems for some games, too, mind you, but those are generally rushed/early access indies or similar, it wouldnt do good for a well stablished game from a trustable company on its 2. The planet killer checks have been a pain either way because the code is just so awkward, will probably take a while to fix, I might have to redo all of them. <inhumane uses>: -Using this on any planet with innocent species, bonus inhumane points if doing so just to colonize it later. Changes all sentient life on the planet to Spiritualist. #2. I feel like pacifying a planet is almost crueler than using a neutron sweep. Realised I get a penalty for. kbmodigity Oct 7, 2018 @ 1:23am. Keep the planet and buildings intact while removing the vermin. Neutron Sweep- Bathes the planet in neutrons, killing all sentient life, leaving behind an empty habitable planet Global Pacifier- Puts an energy shield around the planet so nobody can get in or out. Soooo, I get to the ship designer and no weapon is available. since then I've had the option to research 3. Throw them all onto a border world and release it as a vassal. Bathing an entire planet in neutrons would likely turn large portions of the crust radioactive. Stellaris Real-time strategy Strategy video game Gaming comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A HeOfLittleMind • Additional comment actions. #2. Divine Enforcer: Turns the pops to spiritualists. So I blew up their home system. You held me back from properly fighting the Contingency, giving them a nice gateway to pour through my borders. If you want to reclaim the colony yourself, you can Neutron Sweep it. Atleast with the neutron sweep its painless. It just said “Researched technology tech_pk_neutron” (it’ll usually say the actual name of the tech, i. The Aquatics get access to that? Oh that is lovely. which is lore accurate Exterminatus: Neutron Sweep or World Cracker Thinking of RPing the Imperium in Stellaris and wanted to double check on the effect of Exterminatus. ago. About Stellaris Wiki. Having the Kaiser be able to use ACOT things if ACOT is enabled (fun times). The Neutron Sweep destroys all life forms on the surface while leaving the infrastructure intact. It can kill billions with the press of a button and leaves the planet ripe for colonization for quick and easy integration. Build a lot more ships - a looooooot - and put better weapons on them. You can't land ground troops. #1 tempest. Zro Distillation. Production time is still 3600, upkeep is 30. If theres one thing i learned playing. Skyjack. I soon begin to get planet killer techs to research. That means a stellaris empire will probably have much more energy available per system to them than the Star Wars galaxy, while at the same time having (likely) a much more organised and streamlined bureaucracy and military. 000 alloys. Rogue Servitor actually has the ability to be incredibly powerful both militarily and economically. Imagine an espionage mission that allowed you to crash orbital rings or habitats into planets. This mod adds three new Planet-Killer Weapon options. The god-ray and planet-buster are meme weapons on opposite ends of the effectiveness spectrum - either way too little or way too much. Stellaris. Members Online. 2. And make sure they have starting resources to begin rebuilding. The colossus project ran in under a month, so I'm assuming it didn't get the chance to trigger the mid tech selection? I'm left with world cracker and. Neutron sweep kills the entire colony, but leaves the planet intact and habitable. Stellaris. More posts you may like. −800 Victim; −80 Victim's Federation; −80 Pacifist Teachers of the Shroud; If Spiritualist: Telepathy (only. their fleet was destroyed, their entire empire was ruined, they when from equivalent to Pathetic, i even neutron. Neutron Sweep is next for me as it let's me settle the planet myself. When I completed it the game didnt give me. If your spiritualist, you can't use the neutron sweep. Something like 96 battleships all told. Unfortunately I don't have a savegame, but it should be easliy. No Fantasy verses must be Sci-Fi in origin. so I wanted to use neutron sweep to clear up some some pops. Every colossus weapon has a unique effect and set of characteristics. ; About Stellaris Wiki; Mobile viewUsefulness: Assimilator, Neutron Sweep, Planetcracker/Shield, Divine Enforcer. Marinatedcheese • 22 days ago. make it expensive in terms of influence and material to balance it, but give us the option to pull a colony drop or sever an orbital rings tethers so it collides with the planet like a hula hoop of death. It may also require the Archeotech Ascension perk. Diplomatically, similar story with Neutron Sweepers, but ALL spiritualists really hate that stuff. However you can't use on planets that are not habitable to you. Neutron Sweeper. Global pacifier is about as deadly as a real life pacifier. It's too close to the others. It in part had to do with performance and how the game stores and calculates data. Stellaris Real-time strategy Strategy video game Gaming comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment I_follow_sexy_gays Fanatic Materialist • Additional comment actions. You turned your federation against me for 200 years. Neutron sweep is a good way to clear out FE/AE capital planets which have stupid large army counts on. Always resisting! Have 1 world, fill it with sentinel posts (it fixes stability). Stellaris · January 26, 2018 · One cold Neutron Sweep, coming right up! All reactions: 313. Cracking obliterates the orbital ring. Strongest verse they can beat. Fallen empire pops usually are very good anyway. The only one that seems slightly useful is the neutron sweep, but only if you want to take their planets (which I don't). Neutron Sweep Fallen Empire worlds rather than risk losing their buildings, max. All Pops on the planet become Spiritualist. i don't know if its allowed you to blow them up with a planet cracker, because i would primarily use the neutron sweep armament instead. he used neutron sweep to kill all pops then resettled and terraformed it Reply bikkebakke • Additional comment actions. Well, I managed to force them to repeal that idiocy and took over the empire next to me, wiping out their species by Sweeping their two planets and single Habitat. It’s difficult, and it requires you switch from your war mode to your administer mode, but the rewards are well worth it. Fallen Empire Buildings: Thoughts. Keep the planet and buildings intact while removing the vermin. Subscribe to downloadTerraforming Planet Killers. However, while pops did become pre-sapient the Priki-ti-ki empire still. Neutron sweeper is better, because the planet survives, and you can colonize it later. 400K subscribers in the Stellaris community. That’s the only way to clear pet blockers. Yeah. Neutron Sweep. You could dismantle starbases in systems adjacent to the one with the planet they're all on, give them their own one-system sector, release them as a vassal, immediately release them and Neutron Sweep them ten years later, that might be slightly faster than trying to wait for a rebellion to fire. i think in the past iterations of the game, a colossus could attack a populated habitat or ring world. Deluge machine is a bit of a downgrade from neutron sweep, unless you don't want to bother with terraforming a new colony. Stellaris 50466 Bug Reports 30863 Suggestions 19148 Tech Support 2896 Multiplayer 377 User Mods 4631 Stellaris AAR (After Action Reports) Console edition. There's a timer to stop the conversion to infested (bombing halts it) but afterwards you can only deal. Pretty sure you followed all instrucions correctly, good job. This makes it the perfect symbol of fear for an authoritarian-spiritualist empire. ago. But you can choose neutron sweep for the project. The building loss is still not great. Disband then later. In Stellaris terms, that would mean adding up all attacking armies and all defending armies in a star system and having them fight together, all at the same time. The difference is just a matter of frequency lol. Using a Colossus always gets some hate from the Galatic Comunity, but you are right it does depend on the type of weapon equipped. . Cant count how many times ive tried a more peaceful empire and im just bullied by warmongers who refuse to stop wars despite me having kicked their asses and. The Aquatics get access to that? Oh that is lovely. Neutron sweep kills the population, taking down a shielded world after a war leaves the. In Stellaris, the Colossus is a class of weapon which wipes out all life on a single planet. It still shows the score for the other factions. Anyone tried to adjust diplomatic impact of firing the colossus? This penalty system is especially stupid considering I used neutron sweep against fanatic purifiers. Reply reply more replies. Elitewrecker PT Mar 27 @ 12:49pm. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris • by Galen55. I think the cracker and the pacifier work and even have special event messages. Stellaris. 2 (at least for divine enforcer i cant neutron sweep as spiritualist) 165. Most recently, I used a fleet that was half giga-cannon/4x neutron launcher battleships and half giga-cannon/2x hangar/neutron launcher battleships. But seriously the cybrex war forms have made invasions so easy for me. How great it is as a weapon depends on what and how you play. Genocide Shouldn't Be Such a Big Deal. I wasn't going to use the Habitat, and looked around the galaxy to notice empty Habitats everywhere -- almost every AI empire was spamming them out. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Droids work harder for lower wages and don't rebel. Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. To prevent this, you will have to wipe out the colony too. However the usage of planet cracker could put some empire-wide modifier on the owner of the destroyed planet (if the planet belonged to enemy), something like the pops in the empire are. 600 years and the only research I've received for my Colossus is the World Cracker and the Global Pacifier. 41. Yeh it's just a way of avoiding becoming a genocidal pariah to the rest of the empires. Maybe cracking will be enough to destroy the ring in the resulting explosion. Reply . Afterwards, the other weapons can show up as research cards, but some are blocked by your ethics. ago. Playing last night, got bored, decided to pick on the Habenites, neutron sweep their planets just for the heck of it. Katzen tech levels unlocking specific things for the Katzens. ago. Sounded fun. Just hands you the planet and full assimilation of its pops. If you destroy a starbase but leave a colony still alive in the same system, the colony will respawn a basic outpost starbase automatically as soon as there are no hostile forces in the system. Hey guys, did you know that in terms of humanoid and non-humanoid alien breeding, Dolphinoids are the most- *gets Neutron Sweep'ed*. Download. And bombarding them is also a problem sinc ethey send your fleets away before you make. "Colonisation" after Neutron Sweep a total mess : r/Stellaris r/Stellaris • 4 yr. but I went with neutron sweep over core cracker since I'd rather have planets to inhabit) except that they take forever to charge their weapon, then another forever to actually fire the weapon. After that I declared a total war and moved my colossus (Which is really slow) over to their colony only to find out that I could not shoot the planet for some reason, the. Usefulness: Assimilator, Neutron Sweep, Planetcracker/Shield, Divine Enforcer. 1. Take a system if you can, not needed. It was used by an awakened empire but i assume this still shouldn't happen without apocalypse being installed as colossus don't exist and thus. I had build a neutron colossi to punish my neighbor who would not stop trying to spread the word of god to my tributary vassal. Lady Crimson (RIP) Jun 17, 2019 @ 6:04pm Not dying is a good step. ago. Neutron Sweep: Kills all pops and reduces habitability by 20% for a few years. More Help. #1. Neutron sweeper is better, because the planet survives, and you can colonize it later. A: Can the Neutron Sweep kill machine empire or robot pops? B: Is there a penalty to diplomacy for using a weapon against fanatic purifiers? (I would consider it hilarious karma but it wouldn't surprise me if others were less happy with that)Stellaris Real-time strategy Strategy video game Gaming comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Balenar Master Builders • Additional comment actions. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. This will allow you to find the pop ID number. First, you need to use the debugtooltip command. EDIT: It still doesnt work in 2. Though personally, keep their pops too. Stellaris is just a game. CryptoA ship is a spaceborne vessel controlled by an empire. Elitewrecker PT Jun 29, 2019 @ 6:31am. Neutron Sweep- Bathes the planet in neutrons, killing all sentient life, leaving behind an empty habitable planet Global Pacifier- Puts an energy shield around the planet so nobody can. If you think just defeating someone's fleet wins a war fast, you haven't done any real late game fights. As I'm sure everyone knows, unless you wanna cripple an FE you always neutron sweep their core planets for the sweet sweet FE buildings. Instructions unclear, cracked all the worlds. Neutron Sweep: - Can now target planets owned by you - Can target primitives - Can target hive and infested worlds Divine Enforcer:. So if you look at the effects on the planet after you neutron sweep, it says that the ecosystem is still recovering. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy…A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. Once again, if aliens are monitoring the internet, Stellaris players give them reason to make sure humans never achieve interstellar travel. Jan 14, 2020 @ 8:28am turining the pops into money via Chemical Processing #6. According to the wiki, only world cracking results in negative opinions from all empires. For speed speed we'll go with 99% sublight for thrusters per Stellaris novel (This cuts down significantly in the presence of high gravitational waves such as Black Holes and Neutron stars as stated in the tooltip) and 160ish light year per day for tier III drives. Divine Enforcer doesn't do that (except for Machine and Hive Minds, but you get the idea), you. Game Version. Break the shield and then immediately neutron sweep the planet. All of the information about colossus and global pacifiers is stated above. Colossus Weapon Question. What is the console command to initiate a Neutron Sweep on a selected planet? This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Related Topics Stellaris. I always use the neutron sweep unless I really need the world cracker for dealing with the Contingency or some, but I usually send out a massive extermination party into the galaxy in late. You can equip them with a neutron sweep or global pacifier instead. Reverence for Life Resolution. There simply isn't the capacity to remove such a volume of data (planet type, size, class, modifiers, buildings, pops and so forth) for a set period of time, and to implement such a thing simply for a singular Colossus ability surely. I want to use the world cracker,but when I replace it in the ship designer, it just goes back to the. One of my playthroughs with a buddy, we both severely overpowered a stubborn neighbor. ReplyNeutron Sweep is another favourite of mine when i play empires that are xenophile. It wasn't just for balance reasons Wiz decided that. Besides, the empire is outside the Galactic community so can't really denounce them yet. By going to the species rights panel and setting that species as undesirables, you can then select a purge type. Use a neutron sweep colossus - saves you the "conquer planet" step. I begin researching Colossus and a few month in I get a pop up asking which weapon I’m going to want. View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. Yes, world crackers and neutron sweepers are scary and kill all life on a planet, but they're used as weapons of last resort, and present an opportunity cost for the empire, in that the resources. Well, Machine Worlds technically aren't really habitable planets anymore. Use god ray for force mass shifting your own pops to one faction or to clear out robot fortress worlds. What bothered me however is that while its possible to learn their ship tech (deflectors, power core, armor in some cases), its not possible to replicate their buildings. 0 unless otherwise noted. See my comment on an official bug report of it here. Global Pacifier: “Destroys” the planet, leaving a Society research deposit. Tomb worlds are just carcinogenically radiactivr. 12 votes, 11 comments. Mar 3, 2020. Plantoid colossus is odd, but also kinda cool. Other than Machine Empires, where it's basically a Neutron Sweeper (which IIRC does not work on robots) IMO it's more about maintaining empire cohesion: blast a planet with it and they will all become spiritualist, which will move them all into the Spiritualist faction which (hopefully) will be a lot happier than whatever faction they were a part of. 4-16 minirals and no worry about the world. Top United Hephestian Hegemony member: "Man, fuck them [species]" "Mass Grave" of [species] discovered beneath derelict [empire] scientific nexus on [colony] Member of [species. you deserve a reward for stating the obvious. I understand if the Neutron Sweep not working on Machine World was just an oversight, but it makes sense that it doesn't work as well. Use god ray for force mass shifting your own pops to one faction or to clear out robot fortress worlds. Spiritualist can't use the neutron beam.