Sower Minor Faction

Just throwing this out there. Sowers as a minor faction. I'd love it if they came back as a major faction because I didn't play a lot of Endless Space 1 but I loved the premise of the Sowers as an alternative to the Automatons being intelligent machine socities. Seeing as so many of the other major races are still in the universe I think you could include them in ES2. I had two thoughts about how you'd do them, and obviously, I'm leaning on the side of over powered late game bonuses. But one of the things I think this minor faction does is make terraforming have additional appeal for players.

Sower bonuses as a normal minor population.

1   - +2 Industry +2 Happiness if the planet is Unique or has been Terraformed any number of times

10 - Industrialist

20 - Sower population on a planet that has been terraformed any number of times have +1 FIDSI.

50 - Terraforming projects cost 10-20% less dust in systems (Total # of Sowers in your faction/5) with a Sower on the planet being terraformed.

Sower bonuses as a "fixed" minor population ala Gaurdians, these can not be moved. The Gaurdians are unique to the Unfallen, but these would be a variant unspecific to any faction at present. However, because the Vodyani are virtuals, perhaps their starting system should start with a Sower.

1    - (-1)Food (+2)Industry ... (+4)Industry if the system has no Food improvements built.

5    - Ecologist

10  - An extra population slot is unlocked on a planet with a Sower.

20  - Terraforming a planet in a system with a Sower costs 20% less dust.