The Last Federation - The Lost Technologies

Champions: enemies that show up in combat (more on harder difficulties) and use flagship abilities that were previously your exclusive domain. More new stuff: 12 techs for everybody, 7 flagship abilities, 2 formidable turrets, and 1 new mission. Techs now have "side effects" that can be directly beneficial to you -- or other races -- in combat. Just don't partner with any race for too long, or you might find them leaving you in the dust... something strange and unexpected. All of the races feel more unique in terms of how they evolve based on their new race-specific techs in the tech tree, and there are even 8 Hydral techs that you can go on a new mission type in order to find. Last but not least, the new Tech Race game mode sees you focused on techs to the exclusion of all the usual politics or conquest. This expansion is focused on filling in all sorts of small pieces of the game that could use a bit of extra content, as well as adding some larger features with a surprisingly high impact. Take tech side effects, for instance: they add dual motivations to getting any tech. Gorgeous new Ring World planet type, home to a very fragile ecosystem. One of the tricky things is of course that you can't let any of the other races take over the solar system while you do this. New Tech Race game mode: win the science race before any of the main races do. The Thoraxians can't have ALL the fun. Do I want that tech in order to give it to some other race, or do I perhaps just want it to beef up myself a tad? 64 new racial techs create personality-specific developments to parallel the existing Thoraxian Evolutions. You can easily tell the champion ships by their purple glow, and they have a way of exerting a bit of gravity -- so to speak -- on their part of the battlefield. But even more so, you have to partner with other races in order to advance your own scientific interests. Champions add a new element to combat where you may need to avoid a specific enemy ship that is doing...

The Last Federation - The Lost Technologies