Mechroids 2: A Cyborg Species Expansion

If anyone else experiences crashes when attempting to allow the Processing Purge type through the "Ethical Delimiters" decision, please post your mod list! This is a mod designed around the fantasy of playing as Cybermen, Grineer, Strogg and other cyborg species that survive almost entirely through cloning or cyber-converting. Depending on how you choose to play it, it could be disgustingly OP or a brutal self-imposed challenge: I have designed the mod to try and maximize player choice within the scope of the guiding fantasy, while remaining distinct from Paradox content like Necrophages, Synthetic Ascended, or Driven Assimilators. However, since this is a heavily altered version of a mod that once piggybacked off of the Necroids Species Pack, there is still some similarity to Necrophage gameplay. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Almost everything in the mod is organized around the limitations and theme of this trait: This mod introduces a Mechroid species whose portraits are taken from vanilla Stellaris and from your owned Machine and Necroid DLCs. Mechroids start with the Mechroid trait, which comes with big gameplay changes, the largest being that Mechroids cannot (normally) reproduce. To address this, Mechroids can: Encourage Cyborgization of non-Lithoid Organics living on their planets Forcibly upgrade non-Lithoid Organic abductees using the vanilla Processing Purge Type Take the Biodiversity Initiative Civic that grants your empire a small number of non-Mechroid Secondary Species Pops, freeing the Empire up to have any Origin you want while still having a growth-capable Secondary Species! And if all of that fails, you can always defrost some Pops stored in your Empire Capital's Stasis Chambers blocker. One of the Mechroid-exclusive Traits added, look at the mod pictures to see more: Aside from the advantages and challenges posed by the Mechroid Species itself, Mechroids also have access to a uni