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Some time ago I've asked Frog about what happened to Vaulters, and I got this answer:

The Vaulters are descendants of the Mezari, and so is the United Empire. The success was a Mezari penal ship.

Endless Space lore has been somewhat retconned to be more consistent with developments in Endless Legend.

Mezari => penal ship crashes on Auriga => Vaulters ============================> Auriga is frozen over => ES2 timeline

=========================> Mezari settlers on Raia =====================> United Empire ======> ES2 timeline

More or less.

This is what is sure. What are Vaulters doing at the moment is, as you said, ambiguous.

SuperMarloWorld wrote:

Ok those lore things are just too complicated for me. I am going to play craver and blow up everything, in order to make story as simple as possible : everybody was ate.

It's a timeless tale.

Timeless in this case meaning that the Timelords were also eaten.

Orbotosh wrote:

vahouth wrote:

UndeadPuppy wrote:

So I guess the Vaulters were retconned in the new continuity? They never made it off Auriga?

But there is artwork of Vaulters in ES2

Link?

And also, that doesn't meant that they're going to be a faction. Involving yourself in the backstory of a major faction is definitely going to place some layer of focus.

Here

Also I never said they're gonna be a faction, only that they're...well, there. 

They obviously made it off Auriga.

vahouth wrote:

UndeadPuppy wrote:

So I guess the Vaulters were retconned in the new continuity? They never made it off Auriga?

But there is artwork of Vaulters in ES2

Link?

And also, that doesn't meant that they're going to be a faction. Involving yourself in the backstory of a major faction is definitely going to place some layer of focus.

UndeadPuppy wrote:

So I guess the Vaulters were retconned in the new continuity? They never made it off Auriga?

But there is artwork of Vaulters in ES2

So I guess the Vaulters were retconned in the new continuity? They never made it off Auriga?

Ok those lore things are just too complicated for me. I am going to play craver and blow up everything, in order to make story as simple as possible : everybody was ate.

The thing with the Vaulters is that although I love their lore and appearance their addition to the game would not be special enough compared to other factions to be considered a major faction as their role is very similar to what we already got in the Sophons and Empire.. Seeing people already talking about too many vanilla factions and lack of creativity I'd not see the addition of the Vaulters to be a wise one. 

UNLESS.. 

They get an overhaul like Horatio and get worked out further lorewise and hold a playstyle that adds asymmetrical gameplay that isn't yet present within the game. I don't think instant teleportation in itself is enough difference (ES1, EL)  to warrent the Vaulters to be added to the game in an expansion although of course they could be added in as skin for the sophons/empire easily like the Mezuri in EL.