GridKitty's Raiding Expanded

GridKitty's Raiding Expanded LAST UPDATED 2026-07-12 - READ CHANGELOG FOR DETAILS Steal their people. Strip their planets. Fund your own pirate enclave. Stellaris 4. 4.* Pop Raiding Raiding forces capture enemy pops through bombardment and invasion. How many you can take is limited, but spending Influence authorizes deeper raids. Each escalation takes more, costs more, and draws galactic attention. When a tier is filled, choose how to proceed: push deeper, hold position, switch to resource plundering, demand tribute, or negotiate policy changes from the defender. Each choice changes the war goal to match your new objective. Four war goals shape how you raid. Raiding takes any pops. Emancipation targets the enslaved. Reaping removes all limits and denies the enemy any chance to surrender. You can also authorize Opportunistic Raiding during any non-raiding war for 50 Influence — prompted on first bombardment of each target, with doubled escalation costs. Plundering Devastation dealt to enemy colonies generates resources based on what they actually produce. Invading colonies cashes out whatever is left. Declaring a Plunder war increases the yield and guarantees tribute on surrender. Plunder Yield stacks from multiple sources: base, traditions, civics, and the Plunder war goal. Higher yield means more resources per devastation and harsher penalties on the worlds you strip. Occupied planets are automatically raided each month, with captured pops split among allied armies. Civics Every empire type gets a pop-raiding civic and a resource-raiding civic. Pop raiders: Emancipators and Liberation Enterprise wage war to free the enslaved. Harvest Incorporated treats conquered populations as corporate assets. Harvesting Protocol abducts organics to feed a machine intelligence's power grid, starting with its own battery species. Resource raiders: Reavers (Standard) and vanilla Letters of Marque (Megacorp) strip enemy worlds of wealth via the Plundering stance, granting their comma