Going to breathe and just get my head around vanilla stellaris
Briefly dabbled with 3 planets tall but I don’t understand the nuances
There’s swarms, planet eaters, pop eaters, slavers, wonderful tales of growing pops as food and selling that food on the galactic market - all deliciously evil and interesting but I don’t understand it yet
Going to go for a classic civ style find planets, populate and expand - I know this much and take it from there