More Origins Mod

by Malthus:
A House Divided
You start out with your two starting colony targets already colonized by your species. The bad news is these colonies seceded and think themselves better off on their own. Your relations can be described as being in a cold war state. This scenario is meant to offer early game conflict, though if you are lucky with your spawn location and play your cards right, a diplomatic solution may be possible as well. Same as for the federation starts this origin has the drawback of lacking exploration bonusses as you directly compete for anomalies with your neighbors right from the start.

Severance
You start with your standard homeworld and a poorly developed colony somewhere in the galaxy connected by an unstable wormhole. You do have a permanent techoption to research wormhole travel right from the start in order to reconnect your people. This scenario puts you at a military disadvantage as long as you cannot use the wormhole but at the same time it provides you with more exploration opportunities.

Exiles
You start out with a rather standard homeworld, no advantages or disadvantages so far. What makes this origin radically different from the other two is the event chain which lets you uncover the mystery of your heritage. It is NOT a branching story, so I do not want to spoil it here by telling it already.

Divine Guidance
You start with an immortal ruler. A charismatic leader with an intellect rivaling that of the greatest minds, chosen by the divine (Chosen One, Charismatic, Erudite). If he or she - or it (for those strange aliens out there) - dies, however, your people will surely suffer. But life always finds a way - especially when you have some smart scientists around...

Overcrowded
You start the game with 65 Pops + additional districts and buildings to get them to work, but don't get too excited, there is a severe drawback. The world is overcrowded and near collapse and has a modifier that reflects this. You can fix this, but you will have to heavily invest into it (Arcology Project).

by yrbmed:
Climate Catastrophy
You start on a world not fitting your species' climate preference anymore, but your people have learned to adapt an built giant domed structures to preserve a livable habitat for themselves. This technological wonder might prove useful during the colonisation of other planets.

Wormhole Junction
Your civilization has discovered a strange anomaly within its home system long before discovering the hyperlance network. This anomaly is a semi stable wormhole with varying exits but a stable position in your system. Given time an research multiple exits may be made permanent and thus usable for travel through them.