Orbital Rings - Built around your worlds, Orbital Rings act similarly to Starbases and allow further development or defense of these core planets.Hyper Relays - Chained together, Hyper Relays permit high speed fleet travel and projection of effects to systems connected via the network.Similar to how Federations advance or degrade based on Cohesion, Specialist Empires improve based on loyalty, gaining additional perks and strengthening their bonuses and penalties as they level up through three tiers.

Scholarium - Specializes in research but relies on their allies for military support.Prospectorium - Excels at resource acquisition but has weaker research.Bulwark - A bastion of defense that leaves basic resource acquisition to others.

Three new advanced subject types called Specialist Empires have been introduced, which excel in certain areas while having deficiencies in others.

Patch 3.4, aka 'Cepheus', was released on with the checksum 7836 ( note: patch 3.4.0 was never released to the public instead making patch 3.4.2 the first in the 3.4.X branch).

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