

In season 2, a debate emerged out of universe about the proper pronunciation of "Antares", with Templin's pronunciation of "Ant-AR-es" clashing with the "official" pronunciation of "Ant-AIR-eez".

In season 1, both in and out of character, the players consistently mispronounce the name of Barnard's Star, the closest solitary star to Earth, as "Bernard's Star.".The Ken Burns Effect: Throughout the series, footage of gameplay is supplemented with panning and zooming on many pieces of science fiction art (used with permission, of course) to tell the story of what's happening "on the ground" at any given time.Final Boss: This being a Stellaris Let's Play/ After-Action Report, both the Greater Terran Union and the Antares Confederacy have locked horns with the endgame crisis towards the end.Central Theme: The defiance and martial spirit of the human species.In the real world, Antares B is a B-type main sequence star, which have lifespans of less than a billion years - hardly enough time for life to evolve in the system. In season 2, the Earhart flotilla disappears whilst en route to a habitable planet around the star Antares B.Barnard's Star lies six light years from Earth, and yet is so dim that it is impossible to see with the naked eye. The Florian Matriarchy lies hundreds of light years from GTU territory. In season 1, the Florian Matriarchy declares war on the GTU for building a Dyson Sphere around Barnard's Star and thus removing it from their skies.


What's more, the leaders have figured out that something terrible happened to Earth after they left, and that if they ever do return to their homeworld, the Confederacy may have to liberate it. The second season, narrated by Stephen Trafford, revolves around the Antares Confederacy, an alliance of Lost Colonies descended from a colonization fleet that left Earth in 2159 only for a wormhole accident to dump them in the wrong system, where they were forced to survive on several harsh Death Worlds instead of the thriving, developed colony they were originally heading to. The first season, narrated by Larissa Thompson, focuses on the Greater Terran Union, the military regime that led humanity after thwarting an Alien Invasion by a race called the Tyrum from 2089 to 2096, later emerging onto the galactic stage as a rising imperial power dedicated to making sure that humanity is never threatened by invasion again. It employs the game to craft stories revolving around future human civilizations. Stellaris Invicta is a Stellaris Let's Play on Twitch created by the YouTube channel The Templin Institute.
