Corsair's Custom Empires: Eldanær Stellar Authority

Overview Do you like to play or fight empires with a backstory? Or maybe you want to have a pre-made empire to bring to your next role-play game? Then this mod is for you! I enjoyed coming up with a backstory for this empire, and I thought that I'd publish it for others to enjoy as well. Oh, and this mod is also for you if you want a new Colossus weapon - the Necrophagic Spore Diffuser! This weapon can become available for fungoid necrophage empires to research after they have completed the Colossus project. It is based on the Nanobot Diffuser (and reuses the same graphical effects). The weapon effects are slightly different: all biological Pops are converted to the main necrophage species of the firing empire (normally the Eldanær but the weapon can be researched by any fungoid necrophage) and robot Pops are "conquered" by the necrophaged Pops, which causes devastation based on the percentage of robot Pops that were present. Because the weapon cannot forcibly convert robot Pops, it can only be fired on hostile planets that have more than half of the Pops eligible to be necrophaged (or are already the appropriate necrophage species). Similar to the Divine Enforcer, it can be used on your own planets to instantly convert any biological Pops into your necrophage fungoids (this does not cause devastation or unhappiness in robotic Pops - they are already in your empire). Details The Eldanær Stellar Authority is a fanatic authoritarian, xenophobic empire ruled by a rigid and complex bureaucratic hierarchy. It has a custom imperial authority, the Bureaucratic Autocracy, which is the same as a regular imperial authority but the rulers do not use dynastic titles. The Eldanær are fungoid necrophages with a plantoid prepatent species, the K'foori. The Eldanær have a pre-scripted home system (Ræl) with named planets and the Lush modifier on their homeworld (Dærun), orbiting a ringed gas giant with an extensive moon system - it is also available for custom empires to select. Th