Stellaris is 5 years old, and so I have been proposed to make an illustration celebrating Stellaris to give to the players, which I gladly accepted.
As soon as the assignment was briefed I knew I wanted to work with the Star Eater, which for me is one the coolest features in the game. What I wanted to express through this celebration was a positive feeling, so that's the reason I flipped the Crisis theme on its head and tried to portray it on the "good" side of things. This is why I took the approach of having a very grounded point of view, so that we can feel the massive scale of the Star Eater, while conveying this exciting feeling of sending your biggest army in an all-out war against the entire galaxy.
It has been a wonderful assignement to work on and I'm very excited to see if it will happen again ! You can download the 4K versions of all the wallpapers here : https://imgur.com/a/Ao8zhxE

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