Ad Astra - Origins (Pre-FTL / Pre-PRL) [BETA]

Ad Astra — Origins Per aspera ad astra — through hardship, to the stars. Everyone else starts with a fleet. You start with a planet, and a very long way to go. Begin Stellaris as a pre-FTL civilization confined to its homeworld. Choose a historical starting age, build a society through ten ages, create a space program from nothing, and emerge into a galaxy that did not wait for you. No DLC required. The mod is playable in English and French. 1. 3. 1 — Progression Hotfix This focused update repairs the blocking progression regression in 1. 3. 0. Age technologies remain valid prerequisites after their age has passed, so Bronze and later ages can be researched or granted correctly. Advanced starts now receive their historical technologies before their starting capital economy is prepared. The update does not add 1. 4 content or alter the intended pace of the ages. Start a new game after updating. If progression still stops, please report your starting age, ascent pace, game date, active mod list, and error.log. What you do Day one. Choose one of ten starting ages, from Stone to Early Space. Earlier is harder and earns a stronger final Legacy of the Ascent. Choose your ascent pace and whether the galaxy develops normally or waits for your emergence. The ascent. Each age contains twenty-five period technologies across all three research fields. They arrive in five waves, in the order of their historical dates. The ascent waits at the end of an age until every remaining technology has been discovered. The economy. A resource appears only when your civilization can use it: alloys with bronze, consumer goods with steam, and energy with electricity. Period capitals and buildings take the world from a ring of stones to modern ministries. Exploitation campaigns offer meaningful short-term trade-offs. The road to space. In the Space Age, base-game founding technologies must be researched instead of being handed to you. Space programs then provide sublight exploration, a starbase yar