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Robotic Civilization + Silfae's Animated Synthetic Portraits

Adds a new origin called Robotic Civilization which allows you to start as synthetic, non-gestalt robots. Also adds three ascension perks exclusively for robots.

This version incorporates Silfae's portraits from Animated Synthetic Portraits Expanded as playable robots. Only use one version.

This origin gives you the techs required for robots to work all jobs and replaces your starting farming districts with an extra generator and mining district. It also prevents guaranteed habitable worlds to somewhat counteract starting with 200% habitability.

Empires with the Robotic Civilization origin will be prevented from using the assimilation species right and have reduced organic population growth. They will also have a negative tech modifier to put them on par with other empires in the early game. Robotic civilizations have access to three new ascension perks as they progress through the game.

Enhanced Robotics
Modify Species Cost -33%
Pop Assembly Speed + 10%

Robotic Mastery
Robot Modification Points + 1
+ 1 Roboticist job per 50 pops
Robot Output + 10%

Bio-Assimilation
Can assimilate living pops
Can use Grid Amalgamation slavery type

All credit goes to Silfae for the amazing portraits. Sadly Silfae hasn't been heard from online for a long time and the mods are now out of date. I have adapted Animated Synthetic Portraits Expanded into this mod to give some variety to the robots available.

Unfortunately due to the current scrollbar problem in the game I've had to split the portraits between robots and machines.*

Animated Synthetic Portraits Expanded (not required): https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933075365

If you want to use this mod without the portraits:
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2070518803
Only have one version active at a time.

Will assemble normal robots as well as your main species, make sure you set it to manual for now.

If you find anything weird or broken, please let me know.

Also adds a prescripted country with scripted ruler that can appear in your game. (must have lithoids or they won't appear)

Changes the robot species class, machine species class, AI rights policy and assimilation species rights, so be careful when using other mods which alter these. This means it isn't compatible with robot or machine portrait mods.

*If you want to change which portraits are used by robots/machines then find this mod in your workshop folder and copy its contents into a new mod folder (easily made using the mod tools in the launcher). Go to common/species_classes/robot_civ_species_classes.txt and you will see a list of portrait names for each, just put whichever you like in each list. If you have more than 9 in the list then the last ones will be cut off. If you want the standard robots just remove one from the list, they're still there just at the bottom so get cut off.

Thanks to G_S_Palmer at the Stellaris forums for helping me out.
https://sp.zhabite.com/profiles/76561198316865630/myworkshopfiles/
I recommend using his machine namelist mod alongside this one.
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1848624670

Thanks to Jrant vanilla AI will now colonise.
https://sp.zhabite.com/id/Jrant/myworkshopfiles/