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Machine Supremacy

Machine Supremacy

Win the game as a machine uprising.

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How to unlock the Machine Supremacy achievement in Stellaris - Definitive Guide

This achievement requires the Synthetic Dawn DLC be active when starting your game.

The achievement unlocks when you experience an AI uprising (specifically, this situation: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Situations#AI-Related_Inc...) and when offered the choice, switch to playing as the uprising and then go on to win the game.

Any starting race/origin story/etc. works as long as you:
  • Don't outlaw robots
  • Don't choose the Flesh is Weak ascension perk
  • Research either Synthetics and/or Sapient Combat Simulations
  • Set the policy Artificial Intelligence to anything other than "Citizen Rights"
  • Have 75+ mechanical pops (or 25%+ of your total empire population, whichever is less)
Start with a tiny galaxy where the only AI player is a Fallen empire (if you start with zero opponents, I am not sure if you can achieve victory, so have at least one.) Ensure your victory year is 2500 or later to give the incident time to occur.

As soon as you research Droids, only settle planets with them from that point forward, and keep resettling robot pops off of your initial planets. when you research either of the AI technologies listed above, check your policy settings to ensure you have the AI policy NOT set to Citizen Rights. I also recommend you check your robot species settings to ensure they are set to Servitude (they should be by default, but double check). Along the way feel free to expand and take over the entire galaxy (don't wake the FE if you can avoid it) and build mega structures, but do not build the Mega Shipyard if you have the relevant DLC. I personally found it easier to win post-incident by grouping all of the mega structures off in a corner with no defenses so that my rebellion could quickly and easily capture them all. If you have a Dyson Sphere and a Matter Decompressor, your rebellion should never run out of resources.

When the AI-Related Incident starts, drop everything and watch the timer. Pause the game when you have only a few days left, and destroy all of your fleets, all of your armies, and then downgrade all of your starbases except two: leave the one at your capital and one in a system where you have a world with the most robot pops. Both of these should have at least one shipyard. For any planets that are primarily your initial race, deconstruct all of their buildings and districts as this will cripple their economy once the uprising takes over the mega structures.

When you unpause and are given the option, choose to play as the uprising.

OPTIONAL
After you take control of the uprising, you can quit, load the game in multiplayer as your starting race, and destroy every building and district on every planet. If you want to be really mean, lay claim to the FE systems and declare war on them... then exit and go back to single player. Your old empire won't stand a chance!


At this point, play the game normally, with an initial focus on getting a fleet to all of the mega structures. The achievement will unlock as soon as you defeat your starting empire and the FE, or when you reach the victory year in first place on the Victory screen.
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21 Oct 2022 23:23

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Thanks for the tips. Only issue I had is that on my first try, I followed this exactly and had all of my robot pops on 4 planets and all the organics on my other 4 and for some reason when the event kicked off, it gave me, as the machine empire, all the planets with the organic pops and the original empire kept all the ones with the robot pops. I don't really know what the logic is, I assumed it would give me the worlds with the most robots for obvious reasons and everything organic to the original guys, but nope. And as you can guess, this completely screwed up my economy from the start while the original empire was still getting income from all the robots.
And it happened right on the save month so I couldn't go back and try to save it.

On the game I finally got this one, I found the biggest help was the one you labeled optional and that was to declare war on the fallen empire. For some reason I didn't even think about doing this at first, but they absolutely destroyed the enemy fleets(which they seem to buid super fast even with the single shipyard I left them) and while they couldn't do anything I just took all the surrounding territory first.

In the end, the most difficult aspect of this ended up being having to wait for the victory date. Thanks for the guide.
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By CReaper210 on 30 Oct 2022 00:37
Build a lot of robots, study synths and do not give them civil rights, wait for an uprising, at the beginning of the uprising you take the side of the machines, then you win either through a victorious year or through a crisis.
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28 Apr 2023 14:44