[Some settings have been heavily modified from Stellaris. If you notice differences from the original, that's normal. This story adds a personal power system based on the four Ascension Paths, so it won't spend too much time on civilization-related worldbuilding.]
Jiang Chen is a hardcore player with 20,000 hours in the game Stellaris. At the very moment he defeats the endgame crisis, the 1,000-times-difficulty “Higher-Dimensional Demons,” a malfunction in his gaming pod sends him to another world.
After living there for a while, he realizes that this world feels strangely familiar.
What? The Shroud exists here too? Are the Four Shroud Merchants still trying to swindle people?
What? The four Ascension Paths exist here too? Can I make psionic canned people?
What? The galaxy is ruled by a single voice here too? Are those chattering diplomats still proposing the Tiyanki Conservation Act?
Jiang Chen: “First, I need to survive in this world, where star destroyers fill the skies.”
There are too many settings, but it's okay
Huh, you better hurry up or I wouldn't mind getting you some money from the kitchen
There are a lot of settings, but it still looks good.