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At the start of August, Paradox announced Synthetic Dawn, the next major expansion for Stellaris. Besides a 40-second teaser and the news we'd be able to command machine empires, details were sparse.

Stellaris builds on Paradox's rich architecture of emergent gameplay, with a dozen pieces of mechanics whizzing by your head while you try to keep an eye on events and control the pulse of what's ...