Features:

• Weather mechanics and associated events, unit statuses and other effects. These will force you to switch up your strategies as the weather turns.
• A new planet type and biome: Sulfuric. Rough, yet beautiful.
• The Emissary, an entity representing a powerful intergalactic group seeking Soul Shards. You can exchange this new resource for very powerful effects.
• Outlaws and smugglers: These are generated randomly and how powerful they are is randomly generated but based on the average power of all factions combined. Destroying their ships and catching them will yield a pretty penny.
• An all-new race: the Tyr. After a brutal civil war, this species has fled their home system in search for a new life in Eos.
• Three new factions, all belonging to the Tyr race.
• The new Essence Shards resource type.
• The Tame and Convert unit powers. Gotta catch 'em all?
• Two new creature types: Aetherials and Ornatus.
• Three new artifact types.
• Aquatic Districts and 4 new district improvements
• 4 new minor faction products
• 10 new random events
• 6 new quests
• 22 new technologies
• 6 new status types
• 6 new faction traits
• 5 new Edicts
• 1 new Leadership style
• 11 new unit modules
• Anomalies can now yield Essence Shards
• Changes to Trading Post products: they're now more expensive and take more time to restock.