Royalty
Fight or ally with the new Shattered Empire faction.
Gain psychic powers through noble right, tribal nature communion, or artifact theft. Strengthen them through meditation, and use them to win battles and socially influence people. Strengthen your psychic power by meditating in grand thronerooms, in nature, before flames, the dead or blank walls.
Complete quests to earn honor and titles, or riches and gear. Host rich nobles, poor refugees, animals, prisoners, and more. Defend crashed shuttles, serve as aerial shock troops, build monuments, defeat enemies, and recruit visitors.
Use the special privileges of nobility to call Imperial troops, shuttles, and orbital strikes.
New mechanoid clusters may deploy on your map. Wear them down with artillery, do sneaky sabotage, or lure enemies into the danger.
Wield persona weapons with unique traits. Use jump packs for tactical flight and shield packs for emergency defense. Wear cataphract armor, locust armor, grenadier armor, and phoenix armor, each with different tools. Install new body implants to augment brains, stomachs, arms, and skin.
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Host and protect the Stellarch and his guards complete the new royal endgame quest.
Ideology
Create your own belief system with fine control over behaviors, preferences, rituals, symbols, and more. Play as pirate nudist cannibals, blind undergrounder mole people, charitable ranching cowboys, machine-obsessed transhumanists, and more.
Assign social roles like leader, moral guide, and specialist to your colonists.
Hold unforgettable rituals: Dance parties, cannibal feasts, burn and smoke circles, skylantern festivals, sacrifices, gladiator duels, blindings, scarifications, funerals, and more.
Connect with Gauranlen trees and command the dryads that live inside them.
Hunt for ancient relics. Explore long-forgotten ruins, hack downed spacedrones, and infiltrate tribal villages. Attract wealthy pilgrims by presenting your relics in reliquaries. Plunder ancient complexes for treasure. Raid temporary encampments. Help beggars in need, or betray them.
Enslave prisoners to perform work or fight for you.
Place many new buildings linked to belief systems, and see the many visual styles of different beliefs.
Use new apparel, tattoos, and hairstyles desired by believers.
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Biotech
Raise a family, control mechanoids, and genetically-modify humans.
Build nurseries, play with babies, keep them happy and fed. Babies grow up into children who play, get into trouble, learn, and take lessons. Give the kids a rich childhood, or leave them in a growth vat until they’re adults.
Build and control new kinds of mechanoids. Create combat and labor mechanoids and grow your swarm to a fearsome army and workforce.
Manage the pollution produced by your mechanoids. Freeze it, export it, destroy it with high-tech atomizers, or adapt to it.
Call down three new hyper-deadly commander mechanoids and defeat them for their ancient technology.
Genetically-modify your colonists or prisoners. Curate a collection of genes through trade, quest rewards, and surgical extractions. Recombine and implant genes to customize people to their purpose.
Interact with new factions of brutish pig-people, toxin-immune human bioweapons, fur-covered animal-controlling arctic settlers, fire-breathing horned desert imps, psychic-bonding super-mates, and more.
Explore the dark power of the secret blood-drinkers and use it to live forever.
Anomaly
Awaken the monolith and provoke the insane machine-mind. Anomaly is a horror-themed expansion that adds diverse and twisted threats and lets you build containment facilities for dark entities.
Track down an invisible hunter that steals people’s souls. Test and interrogate your people to find out who is infested with a mind-controlling parasite. Destroy a fleshmass infestation before it grows over the whole map and consumes everything. Tamper with obelisks that duplicate, mutate, and abduct your colonists. Venture into underground caverns and kill the momma beast below.
Build a grand containment facility for capturing and studying monsters. Use the power of captured creatures against your enemies. Harvest them for resources to craft void-powered weapons, equipment, apparel, and serums.
Fight macabre cultists to stop them from kidnapping your people with their psychic rituals. Use those same rituals for your own purposes and summon the massed dead, rain rage-filled blood, or steal the minds and health of your foes.
Choose your fate in the new endgame as an abyssal void swallows the world.
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Odyssey
Build your own ship and travel across the planet!
Start small: just a grav engine, a few rooms, thrusters, and enough fuel to lift off. Over time, make it into a home by adding living quarters, labs, workshops, and everything else your mobile colony needs
Explore new biomes like the fungal glowforests, glacial plains, and toxic scarlands. Search through crashlanded orbital platforms, insect-infested caves, and other dangerous locations for ancient tech to upgrade your ship.
Fly into space. Land on collapsed space stations, ore-rich asteroids, and derelict satellites. Search for treasure, but be prepared for a fight with other orbital scavengers and mechanoid defenses.
Tame, train, and trade cute new animals that can fly and swim. Teach them to dig and forage, nuzzle your colonists, and track down your foes.
Follow maps and rumours to find quests across the planet. Hunt the alpha thrumbo, raid ancient cryptosleep bunkers, mine through asteroids to loot stashes, and more.
Face the mechhive in a new end game. Seize control of the machine mind, or destroy it for good.
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