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👑 Royalty DLC
🏰 Empire Faction & Title System
The Empire is a new high-tech faction. Building good relations with them unlocks psycasts, advanced technology, and one of the win conditions.
- Titles (low to high): Yeoman → Acolyte → Knight → Consul → Count → Duke → Praetor → Emperor
- Each promotion requires: enough honor points + meeting bedroom/clothing/throne room requirements + a bestowal ceremony
- The higher the title, the more "lowly" work the pawn will refuse (Counts won't sweep floors or haul)
- Don't promote your main workers too high — they'll become useless for manual labor
⚠️ High-title pawns refuse manual work — think twice before promoting your grower or builder. Usually it's best to give titles to your social pawn.
🔺 Title Progression Ladder
From Yeoman to Emperor, each tier unlocks more power but at increasing cost:
🧠 Psycast System
| Psycast Level | Required Title | Unlocked Powers | Key Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Acolyte | Burden, Blind, Stun | Slow / control single enemy |
| Level 2 | Knight | Berserk, Focus | Turn enemies on each other |
| Level 3 | Consul | Berserk Pulse, Invisibility | Group control + survival |
| Level 4 | Count | Skip, Teleport | Tactical mobility |
| Level 5 | Duke | Neural Heat Dump, Mass Berserk | Ultimate crowd control |
| Level 6 | Praetor | Summon, Farskip | Map-wide mobility |
💡 Psycasts generate Neural Heat — too much heat and the pawn collapses. Don't chain-cast too many abilities.
🎖️ Royal Permits
- Raising your title grants permit points you can spend to call in Imperial support
- Airstrike: Call an Imperial shuttle to bomb a target area (very powerful!)
- Royal Guard: Summon Imperial soldiers to fight for you
- Supply Drop: Request a drop of food, medicine, or steel
- Shuttle: Call an Imperial shuttle for relocation or emergency evacuation
- Permit points are limited — you can only pick a few permits. Choose the ones you need most.
⚔️ New Equipment & Weapons
- Monosword: The strongest melee weapon, extremely high armor penetration
- Zeushammer: Anti-mech specialist — EMP + high damage
- Shock Lance: Non-lethal takedown, perfect for capturing prisoners
- Locust Armor: Deploys a circular shield that blocks ranged attacks (but also blocks your own shots)
- Jump Pack: Lets pawns perform short-range jumps — pair with melee weapons to backline dive
- Psychic Enhancer: Imperial tech implant that boosts psy-sensitivity
🏛️ Bestowal Ceremony & Throne Room Requirements
- A bestowal requires a Bestower to fly in on a shuttle to your colony
- The Bestower cannot be interrupted during the ceremony (a raid = ceremony fails)
- Bedroom requirements: Duke needs 35m²+, a double bed, and excellent-quality furniture
- Throne room requirements: 80m²+, luxury carpet, piano, gold sculptures
⚠️ Don't wait until the Bestower arrives to start building — prepare ahead of time.