Have they added a way to reset the Academy to its pre update state? I want to play the Nakalim but I can't justify the purchase with the academy as it is. It needed a bigger role I agree but its power should be soft not hard.  The academy is the only place in the galaxy heroes are trained make no mistake that gives it considerable diplomatic pull but by that same virtue it would be unable to really grow.  Heroes cannot hold ground they are not nearly numerous enough to keep captured systems under sway nor should the academy be interested in the minutia of governance when they can simply recall heroes from uncooperative powers, or leak secrets and gadgets to cooperate ones.  

No, the game crashes if the academy faction does not spawn with awakening installed