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[warning - what follows is a very nerdy rant]
I'm still confused as to whether this is a full on space empire or just a local faction we're dealing with here. Who sends the Emperor of dozens of planets to colonize a rimworld? That vast distance between our rimworlds and everything else was part of the charm of rimworld for me. You're truly all alone and have been completely abandoned in a strange and hard universe, where all semblance of society and structure is trillions of miles away and it's up to you to make both of those things on your own. No one can help you, there is no meaning or purpose to your time on the rim but what you make of it, whether that includes escaping to that vast beyond and finding hyperbliss on a glitterworld, wreaking brutal havock on your neighbors, or something else: anything else you can imagine because the setting is so free. It's true freedom, a faction striking out by itself to survive in what is really a tormented sci fi hellscape half the time. The original founders of the colony are the most important over any noble simply because they're the most skilled or the just most reliable in series of countless impossible situations. I imgine them as the most prominent citizens and the leaders of the little weathered groups that form in rimworld. While i love and appreciate the idea of most of the new content, the theme seems...cartoonish to me and it really messes with the cooler lore and the way i've always seen rimworld. You see i'd always thought there was a reason the post game, flying-to-a-blissed-out-glitterworld part of the game was left out. Because the story is over at that point. That's not rimworld as we know it. What could our gritty colonists possibly offer the monarch of an intergalactic empire? Golden decorations? A Thrumbo fur chair? The emperor is the kind of rich dude the game is talking about when it mentions that the thrumbo was genetically engineered for beauty and sport. We kill thrumbos and eat their meat, using their fur for armor and decoration or selling it. We eat other colonists and do yayo just to make it through the next few hours. I can't imagine some massive stellaris tier emperor coming down from above to deal with that. Not to be a wet rag but I just don't get it personally. I'll probably buy it anyways if i can ever afford it and play it for a while. But I can't say it'll be a permanent addition. After some digging it does seem like they may have added to the primer so i'll be reading that.