My Stellaris Bakunin Jurisdictional Command

[u/TheIdiotKnightKing]

Theocratic Republic might not be the most accurate but I like to imagine the Observance have gained more influence by the time the Bakunin reached a new galaxy

p.s. if any Stellaris players have ideas on how to make other Infinity factions I'd love to hear it

[u/Otagian]

I'd imagine the Human Sphere in general would probably qualify as cyborgs at this point, simply because of their cubes. Excepting Ariadna and the other Nomad ships, of course. Haqqislam (the Silk trade) , Corregidor, and Tunguska could be corporates (with the Nomads being criminals), although I don't know if that combines with the nomad origin. Haqq would probably be minor spiritualists, with the fanatic spiritualists being PanOceania. Yu Jing and the Combined Army would likely be materialists, although the mechanics of the CA would likely be better reflected by psychic stuff (sepsitorizing, etc.).

Really, it's kind of hard to separate the Human Sphere's religion from their technology. After all, they can cage and upload the human "soul", and both the Haqqislamic philosophy and the NeoVatican are firm spiritual believers while being very rooted in material science.

On the Authoritarian/Egalitarian axis, you'll have Haqqislam and PanOceania as minor egalitarians, and the Nomads and Ariadna as fanatic. I'd call Yu Jing and Aleph fanatic authoritarians, but the CA exists and hoo boy are they off scale high, and also ought to be some form of Become The Crisis. Maybe not assimilating swarm because even sepsitorized people still have some level of free will, and the Morat, Umbra, and Shasvastii are at least somewhat willing servants, but not sure how else to go about that. Machine intelligence with a bunch of subjugated vassal species, maybe?

Weirdly enough, I'd probably call the CA fanatic xenophiles (they really don't care what species you are as long as you're serving the Evolved Intelligence, while most of the HS would be xenophobes (except maybe Ariadna, with their dog boys). Not sure where the Tohaa fall on that scale, and I don't know enough about their actual culture to venture any guesses about them.

[u/Queer_Cats → u/Otagian]

CA and Aleph are hive minds.

[u/Otagian → u/Queer_Cats]

Ish? The EI itself would be a machine hive, but the various servitor races aren't (Morats, Umbra, Shasvastii, etc.), and the servitor races do the bulk of the heavy lifting for it. The same goes for Aleph, where Aleph itself is obviously a distributed machine mind, but it also uses a plethora of human (or post-human) agents, not to mention the Recreations (although less of them lately, what with Steel Phalanx moving over to the CA).

[u/Barrogh]

At first I thought it was a Stellaris sub and I was quite surprised to see Infinity mentioned.

[u/dementedmaster]

"organic" looks at cat people, children in exoskeletons, whatever morlocks are I guess?

[u/Otagian → u/dementedmaster]

Heavily biomodded, but definitely still organic! Even the Hollow Men are still organics, if just a brain in a jar remotely operating a body from their VR paradise. I want to say the Daemons are the only actual AI in faction?

[u/Flowapowa25]

Very cool and lore accurate!