Origin
Mechanist
Mécaniste
Description
This civilization has been preoccupied with the idea of metallic automatons since the early Steam Age. Although many said it could not be done, the first true robots left the assembly lines long before even rudimentary space flight was achieved.
Effects
- Robot 
Pops: 800
- Mechanical Trait: Adaptive Frames
- Homeworld: 
Robot Assembly Plant
- Additional Starting Technologies:
- Powered Exoskeletons
- Artificial Workforce
- Guaranteed Research Options: Machine Template System
- +15% Mechanical Pop Assembly Speed
- +1 Mechanical Species Trait Picks
- +2 Mechanical Modification Points
Conditions
Requirements
- All of the following
- Incompatible with ethic “Gestalt Consciousness”
- Is some degree of Materialist
- Incompatible with civic “Permanent Employment”
- Incompatible with species type “Machine”