in my first playtrought I went with the most vanilla start imaginable, enede up somehow bcoming a unity/diplomatic build who also just so happened to be the galactic cyustodian, with a navy large enough to take on an awakened fallen empire and win (I attacked them because they had the last remaining crisis fleet in their system but wouldn't attack them due to their pacement).

then now I'm playing with mods and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing

in my first playtrought I went with the most vanilla start imaginable, enede up somehow bcoming a unity/diplomatic build who also just so happened to be the galactic cyustodian, with a navy large enough to take on an awakened fallen empire and win (I attacked them because they had the last remaining crisis fleet in their system but wouldn't attack them due to their pacement). then now I'm playing with mods and it's fucking amazing