Synth Collective

Lets you play as an empire of sentient, autonomous, free-willed Synth individuals, with the traits you choose. Kinda like the Gen 3 synths in Fallout. Basicaly a pre-ascended empire. Also, optionally assimilate other species, like the Borg do. Assimilation speed scales with number of pops, unlike Paradox's fixed speed. Let me emphasize that: These are NOT a replacement for Paradox's Gestalt Consciousness / Hive Mind robots from the DLC, but robotic individuals. They can be happy or unhappy. They have an ethos. They can and WILL join factions. They get the normal events like space piracy or cultists or whatnot. Basically, quoth Glory from Falllout 4: "I'm as real a girl as you'll ever meet. The only difference is I bet your assembly instruction were a hell of a lot more fun." FEATURES - allows using the robot class and portraits for your population, in which case you get to use the machine traits - or pick a biological portrait for your synth empire, in which case you get to pick from the biological traits. Note that you'll still be a robot, just wearing a silicone face, so you might need to switch to robot traits if you ever mod your species. Still, it lets you play voidborne robots from the start. - you CAN change your starting traits, but keep the "Robotic Immortality" trait, as it is the trigger for the mod's scripts. - New synths will keep your portrait, traits and species name. Including, yes, you can be a robot with a biological portrait. - can coexist with organics, IF you want to run a multi-cultural empire (though they might still think you're a soulless machine, and the spirituals... well, they'll still dislike that you even exist.) - if you choose to assimilate aliens (via the citizenship type Assimilation in the Species window), the assimilation speed scales with the number of pops. - at the game start you will automatically be given the techs to make more synths, and your country is set to have full AI rights, allowed AI pops, and the AI accord. So basi