I feel like I read somewhere that one of the changes introduced was that you don't need to have genetic ascension to assimilate hive pops into individuals anymore. Is that only for the DLC? I don't have the money to get the season pass yet, so I'm waiting to start my new job. But I'm currently rogue servitors with a pre-ftl hive world I would like to uplift to ftl, in the hopes to eventually voluntarily integrate and pamper them. But if they will just get purged, I'll just let them discover space on their own, and then keep them as an independent federation member. So do I need the DLC for this?
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You still need a bio ascension to assimilate them, but you can keep them as slaves without it. Not usefull in your case.