Alternate Modern Earth

Alternate Modern Earth

Somewhere in your galaxy, Earth is on the edge of the space age. But history took a different turn this time. Pick which one at the start of the game, watch its superpowers, corporations or warlords fight over the planet, back your favourite, and help the winner reach the stars.

A sister mod to Fantasy Worlds. Works on its own or together with it.

Features

• Unless an empire already lives on Sol (UNE, Commonwealth of Man, or any Sol origin), Earth always spawns as an early space age pre-FTL world, replacing vanilla's random Sol roll.

• At game start, choose one of five Earths, or let fate decide:

  • Code Geass: the Holy Britannian Empire, the Black Knights, the Euro Universe and the Chinese Federation.

  • Red Alert 3: the Allied Nations, the Soviet Union and the Empire of the Rising Sun.

  • Cyberpunk: Arasaka, the New United States and the Free States.

  • Fallout (and Metro): a tomb-world Earth shared by Wastelanders, Ghouls, Super Mutants and the Dark Ones, fought over by the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, the New California Republic, the Spartan Order and Caesar's Legion.

  • Earth: the real Earth of 2026, quite boring.

• Each Earth has its own species with their own name lists, named armies and legendary units, an orbital station, and discovery and observation report events.

• Vanilla's pre-FTL catastrophes never strike this Earth. Instead, each history has its own events: a major and a minor cataclysm that you can pay to soften or avert, an opportunity that only succeeds with your help (Premier Cherdenko's escape to orbit, anyone?).

• Faction situations let you back a side in Earth's struggle. Once a faction unifies the world, you can hasten the pace.

• When Earth reaches the stars, the winning faction forms the new empire with its own name and flag, and you choose its leader from 41 named characters, each with their own ethics, authority, civics and ruler trait.

• Non-xenophobe AI observers can take part in the struggle too.

Console Commands

Useful for testing or skipping ahead. Open the console with the ~ key and type:

event ame.3         - Reopen the welcome event to change your intervention difficulty
event ame_debug.1   - Uplift Earth as if you enlightened it (you may take it as a subject)
event ame_debug.2   - Let Earth reach FTL on its own
event ame_debug.3   - Add +25 to the first faction of Earth's setting
event ame_debug.4   - Roll one of Earth's random events right now
event ame_debug.5   - Add all 45 named leaders to your leader list to preview their portraits
event ame_debug.6   - Remove the leaders added by ame_debug.5
event ame_debug.7   - Fill Earth's tech bar; it reaches FTL at the next monthly tick
event ame_debug.8   - Remove Earth's civilization and choose its history again
event ame_debug.9   - Reveal Sol on your map (you still have to send a science ship to survey it)
event ame_debug.4NN - Fire one specific Earth event, 401-453 (e.g. ame_debug.406 for Premier Cherdenko's escape)

All but ame.3, ame_debug.5, ame_debug.6, ame_debug.8 and ame_debug.9 only work once Earth's observation report has been filed. Use ame_debug.3 four times to test a faction locking in at 100.

Requirements and Compatibility

• Supports Stellaris 4.5.*

• No DLC required. If you own them, MegaCorp and Federations supply some leaders' civics. Without them, base-game equivalents are used.

• Automatically uses SE: Human 2.2 when it is loaded, giving every named leader a fixed portrait that resembles their canon self. Strongly recommended. Without it, leaders get a close-enough vanilla look. No patch needed.

• Mods that also replace or move Sol may conflict. The mod adds new content only and overwrites no vanilla files.

Thanks and Credits

Code Geass, Red Alert 3, Cyberpunk, Fallout and Metro belong to their respective creators and rights holders.

Reuse Permission

Anyone may borrow, adapt, or integrate this mod's content with credit to Aelfwine, Lorraine, or Kyrie. If possible, leave a comment at @bokononisme so I can see what you make.

Support

This is a free passion project, but if you want to support me, you can tip me at Ko-Fi