Relevant features:
A Brotherhood Among the Stars now has edict upkeep reduction.

A Brotherhood Among the Stars +100% Government Ethics Attraction, +50 Edict Funds, -20% edict upkeep, -20% edict cost, +25% unity output and Increase pop amenities and consumer good usage by 25%.
• Requires The Great Bulwark Ascension Perk.
  
• Requires Imperial Ambition Ascension Perk.
  
• May not have Whispers of Profit Ascension Perk.

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• Added planet_rangers category
  
• Incorporated changes to habitat districts
  
• planet_bio_trophies now has a new parent category ( parent = planet_culture_workers ) instead of ( parent = planet_jobs )
  
• Added planet_traders category
  
• Added hab_deposits category
  
• Added hab_research_deposits category
  
• Added hab_mining_deposits category

Localization and Tooltips
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• Erased unused strings for Executive Vigor and Imperial Prerogative under "#Vanilla behavior - Compatibility".
  
• ap_esap_gov_4_global_req:0 added.
  
• ap_esap_gov_GC_1_desc:0 Fixed typo for "continuously".
  
• Adjusted effects localisation at ap_esap_gov_3_tooltip:0, ap_esap_gov_3_corp_tooltip:0, ap_esap_gov_1_tooltip:0, ap_esap_gov_GC_1_tooltip:0 and ap_esap_gov_GC_3_tooltip:0

• Executive Vigor, Imperial Prerogative and The Beautiful Bureaucracy have been adjusted and further balanced.
  
• The Beautiful Bureaucracy was feeling a little bit too strong in early game as discussed in the balance thread, it was clearly a better choice than One Vision in terms of unity output (it still is depending on how many pops you have). Now, you can still unlock this perk early if you find the metropolis dig site that grants you research progress towards Global Production Strategy or you have to wait until Tier 3 technologies show up. Hopefully, that requirement balances things out without the need of nerfing the effects.
  
• Executive Vigor and Imperial Prerogative now interact with the latest update's council effects, Council Agenda Progress Speed and Enacted Council Agenda Effect Duration respectively, this benefits stack and increase for each government perk unlocked.
  
• Changes are highlighted below.
  
  
  Executive Vigor Government Perk. Leader capacity +1, Adds +100 Edict Funds. Council Agenda Progress Speed is increased by +9% for each unlocked Government Perk (Including this one).
  • Restless Execution is the Gestalt variant of this perk, it has the same effects.
  Imperial Prerogative Government Perk. Leader capacity +2, Reduce Empire Size from Colonies by -50%. Enacted Council Agenda Effect Duration is increased by +9% for each unlocked Government Perk (Including this one).
  • Colonial Enterprises is the mega-corp variant of this perk, it has the same effects.
    
  • Consciousness Nodes is the Gestalt variant of this perk, it has the same effects.
  The Beautiful Bureaucracy Government Perk. Leader capacity +1, Planet Stability increases by 1.5 points for each Government Perk unlocked (including this one).
  • Non-Gestalt empires: Specialist jobs (including robots) produce 2 additional unity.
    
  • The Great Echo is the Gestalt variant of this perk, it has similar effects.
    
  • For Gestalts: Complex and Simple Drones produce 1 unity.
    
  • Requires the Global Production Strategy technology.

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Localization and Tooltips

• Erased simp_ch folder to help Chinese translators.

Localization and Tooltips

• Updated localization strings for all languages remaining languages, remember translations go below ESAP in the load order.

Relevant features:

• Trade Posts granted by AP Rivers of Gold have their starbase type localization fixed.
  
• Rivers of Gold
  Unlocks the Trade Post starbase building, which produces 10 Trade Value and 2 additional trade value per trade hub. All planets receive 1 Merchant job.
  
  • Requires The Silver Tongued Ascension Perk.
    
  • Requires Whispers of Profit Ascension Perk.
    
  • Trade Post upkeep is 1 energy and 2 consumer goods.

• sm_esap_ct2_diplomacy_finance_trade_post_desc:0 "In even the most far-flung parts of our realm, you are not far from a trade post. These buy up all kinds of rare goods produced on the surrounding worlds. The goods are then transported in bulk to larger markets and sold."
  
• sesap_ct2_diplomacy_finance_trade_post:0 "Trade Post"
  
• sm_esap_ct2_diplomacy_finance_trade_post_desc_modifier:0 "Produces §G10§! £trade_value£ §YTrade Value§! and an additional §G2§! £trade_value£ §YTrade Value§! per §YTrade Hub§!."

• ap_esap_ct2_diplomacy_finance_tooltip:0 "Unlocks the §Y$sm_esap_ct2_diplomacy_finance_trade_post$§! starbase building, which produces §G10§! £trade_value£ §YTrade Value§! and an additional §G2§! £trade_value£ §YTrade Value§! per §YTrade Hub§!."

Relevant features:

• Artificial Procreation now grants organic pop assembly for extra flavor. (Suggested by Kaokasalis).
  
• Fixed The Great Echo not applying the correct stability bonus to Gestalt Hives or Machine Empires.

Relevant features:

• Fine tuning Self Realization effects and bug fixed traits from that perk added incorrectly to leaders in other empires.

Relevant features:

• Mental Supression is now available to civs with Teachers of the Shroud origin.
  
• Mental Supression now shows the right tooltip when you are not able to pick the perk just yet (no changes to localisation, just code).

• ap_esap_gov_3_corp:0 "Colonial Enterprises"
  
• ap_esap_gov_3_corp_desc:0 "Expanding our assets to other planets within our galactic sectors should guarantee our ever increasing supply demands."
  
• Added localisation changes to other official languages.