Necrophage tips for early game + mid game? I loooooooooooooooooove the idea of Necrophage. An elite specialist species that harvests lower ones, and maintains a second 'class' species just for livestock and manual labour, its awesome. The roleplay of it is 10/10 for me and i love it, but I have never won a single stellaris game, and despite being close multiple times the last few days, I always get tripped up mid game, and I think this is because my early game feels horrible. 

What is the first 30ish years look like for a good necrophage player? and what civics do people use? I tried Fanatic Purifier but then my second class slaves died instantly, and theres a bug to keep them alive but I dont like the idea of abusing that.