Animated Octee-lan Portraits: Revisited

Overview Have you experienced the sleek, tentacled allure of Silfae's "Animated Octee-lan Portraits" mod? Do you wish that the gameplay elements were up-to-date so that you can play the Kuri-octa-Xibi and rebel against the Beep-Boops? Then this mod is for you! There are other mods which contain the same portraits, so why should you choose this one? This mod fixes the old code so that the special starting system (containing your former machine overlords) is playable and ensures all the assets are usable by players. Please enjoy my adaptation of Silfae's custom empire into modern Stellaris. Changes All gameplay features from the original mod are upgraded to be fully compatible with Stellaris 3. 8 "Gemini," the latest version when this was written. Updates include: Remove duplication in room selector Remove alternate (blank) city graphics - mostly they were to try and get a static diplomacy backdrop but only worked for colonies with city size 4; set the graphical_culture to not define a cityset Add a static room that looks identical to the original room plus backdrop image - this room is used by the predefined empire by default Original room (with see-through viewport) also remains available for use with custom empires Update the namelist to account for all built-in army types, remove obsolete entries Fix definitions for Octee-lan custom greeting sound Machine species (Beep-Boop) now uses the default robot sounds instead of (non-robotic) mammalian sounds Add gestalt version of the Alien Zoo (building, technology, and job) which is available to non-genocidal gestalt empires Update pre-scripted empire (Kuri-octa-Xibi): Octee-lan species Female mono-gender species (since Stellaris 3. 2) Swap Rapid Breeders to Aquatic (requires the Aquatic Species Pack) to fit the role-play better Remove Communal because Charismatic is now 2 trait points now Uses Origin: Syncretic Evolution (the Quoi-chi are the secondary species; requires Utopia) Uses Aquatic cities and ships (requires the