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Dying of the Light: Destroyed Galaxy Origin

Inspired by the April Fools Dev Diary and the After the Rapture mods, "Dying of the Light" unlocks an origin that spawns you in the ruins of a destroyed Galaxy after the cataclysmic activation of the Aetherophasic Engine. Almost all systems are destroyed and useless. A few exceptions:
- Hauer (never forget)
- The Sealed System (dark psi-magic, no doubt; features the only habitable world in the galaxy)
- Void Clouds... so many void clouds...
- Various ruined megastructures, all of which are irreparable but still useful
- A system containing a ruined Atherophasic Engine

The Galaxy is almost completely devoid of life, and the Contingency and Cetana will no longer spawn (if you even make it to the endgame crisis...) because their secret lairs were obliterated. The Sentinels will not be around to help against the Prethoryn, either. However, there are still lots of Void Clouds lurking about.

There are still several events to be had, including an event chain where you figure out what the Void Clouds' deal is, and more are on the way. But for the most part, it is a very boring Galaxy indeed. Runs like a charm though!

The black holes added by this mod are NOT suitable for Matter Decompressors or mod-added black hole megastructures. In tech-speak, they are a different star class; in lore-speak, most of their mass was stripped off as part of the Aetherophasic Engine's activation, and there is now too little matter (and far too small of an event horizon) for even the best mega-engineers to work with. They CAN be the site of black hole observatories (and a certain other megastructure added by the mod), and the mod also includes primordial black holes that you can in fact use (you can find them on the galactic map pretty easily because they have standard black hole names).

The mod requires Utopia to allow for the orbital habitat functionality, and overwrites the following vanilla files:
- In common/solar_system_initializers: ancient_relics, apocalypse, astral_planes, central_crystal, cosmic_storm, crisis, federations, hostile_system, leviathans_system, machine_age, megacorp, overlord, paragon, pre_ftl, special_system, unique_system, utopia
- Various other vanilla events (crisis.50, crisis_trigger.1), decisions (decision_stripmine_planet), megastructures (ring_world_1, dyson_sphere_0, matter_decompressor_0, mega_shipyard_0), and starbase buildings (black_hole_observatory) are overwritten without overwriting the entire file
- If you have another mod that messes with or uses these files, there will likely be issues ¯\_(ツ)_/¯