Everyone has different skills.
Enterspacestrategystory-spewerStellaris, specifically, its spost specent spee-LCThe Machine Age.
But what’s this?

I recognise that from toys!
Lets do some clicking.
Justified because this is just a romantic extrapolation of how the advertising industry actually works.

Plus, they just suit my playstyle.
I call my empire the United Earth Corporation.
Were also running the Augmentation Bazaars civic, which effectively lets us build Cyberpunks ripper docs on our planets.
We spread into space.
You know, Stellaris stuff.
All the while, the new origin offers up a bevvy of story events with choices.
I make the bad choices.
Whenever I see a choice and think, that sounds bad!
Brain slugs, eh?
Let’s do it!
If they can adequatedly jostle for space with these fancy new craniums, they’ve earned their place here.
They can sell you stories, but they cant sell you how to interpret them.
Unfortunately for my population, I mainly just interpret them as the attached tiny modifiers at this point.
I have machine brain, and the numbers must go up.
Theres a whole new traditions tree for cybernetics!
Work really hard, and youll eventually unlock the eat shit tradition perk.
At least, thats how I read it.
Reprocessing metabolic waste into digestible chemical components.
Were all cyborg shitmunchers now.
Bring on the future!