
“They modelled them! They were like, ‘Let’s make a case against the meat industry,’ so they were super gross. ‘Actually, did you know that these pigs were made by vegans ?” Lennart revealed. As with so many things in this torn up galaxy, the bio-engineered Megasow and Piglets have gone wild and will gleefully try and eat anything in sight. The Forgotten aren’t the only new dangers you can bump into as you’re expanding, as Triumph flesh out another side of the Star Union’s history, giving us a glimpse of how its citizens were kept fed by genetically modified farm animals. It was a doomsday cult, but on a universal level.”

“So looking back, there were these religious zealots who didn’t like where the universe was going, so they decided to go into hiding to wait for a better time. Those are the key themes to the Star Union. Genetic modification as well, people trying to live for eternity.

We’ve got huge difference between the rich and the poor, mass unemployment, big data, big AI, those are all things that led to the fall. “We built a society, everything went to shit, so what went wrong and how can we do it better next time? That’s the big premise and also maybe looking at the world today, our society and all the problems with it. “This universe is both about the past and the future,” Lennart said. Wake up they did, though, becoming a new NPC faction, the mindless and broken The Forgotten that you can encounter in the new Tomb World scenarios. However, there were those whose minds simply couldn’t handle it, or undesirable people that the Es’teq decided were not worthy of immortality, poisoning their stasis without the intention of ever letting them wake up. Putting these to use, there’s two new campaign missions being added to the game, exploring the lore behind the Es’teq and their decision to cryogenically freeze their brains, becoming the robotic Heritor. In practice what it means is that you have access to a new tech tree that runs through your empire’s development, adding some new weaponry options, new equipment for your troops, and you can unlock new Heritor units as well. Sure, it might not have quite the same impact as a new race, but this offers more possibilities, as all the Secret Techs found in the main game do. It’s a fascinating move that democratises the new content to try and fit in seamlessly with all the existing races.
