Xeno rework Expansion (WIP) 5.3

By the numbers:
      139 buildings  •  146 tradition picks across 23 trees  •  16 ascension perks
      31 civics  •  9 origins  •  117 species & leader traits
      3 prescripted empires  •  3 AI empire personalities
      99 jobs  •  23 armies  •  121 technologies  •  538 events  •  21 planet classes

The Hive:
      An egg-and-offspring economy: drone clutches and royal egg-layers produce Xenomorph Eggs; brood tenders mature them into Offspring that pay for your specialist chains, growth decisions, and branch-office seeding. Run the reserves dry and the brood starves.
      A full royal ladder — Drones, Warriors, Praetorian and Paladin guards, Queens, Brood Queens, Empresses, the Queen Mother — expressed as jobs, armies, and leaders.
      The Hive Evolution Chamber: converting captured organics earns Evolution Points; spend them in an edict-opened evolution menu to cultivate exotic war-castes (Widow, Pyrogen, Puppeteer, Warlock). More castes are tech-grown (Ravager, Boiler) or host-line bred (Runner, Lurker, Crusher, Charger, Neomorph and more).
      Host-line subspecies: consume reptilian, avian, lithoid, aquatic and other hosts to unlock hybrid strains with their own traits and armies.
      World consumption: cultivate hive worlds, deepen them into resin networks, and end at the Black Resin Brood-World — or strip-mine the crust of everything else.
      Brood-Tribute Subjugation: defeated empires become oppressive broodstock vassals the Hive milks forever. The galaxy's answer: a Restraint casus belli that frees every subject the Hive holds.
      Divergent Brood Ecologies: fully-infested worlds roll permanent ecological roles — Spawning Grounds, Hunting Grounds, Synaptic Shoals, Acid Marshes, Carrion Fields.
      Innate galactic infestation that spreads through contact, with civics that amplify the strain.
      Custom bombardment stances, war goals, espionage operations, archaeology, and a genetic-memory research economy where production drives reproduction.

The Captors:
      Non-hive empires can capture, contain, and exploit the Xenomorph: containment labs, specimen vaults, breeding programs, rendering works, menageries, and a captive-Queen interactive menu with its own long-form event trees.
      Captor civics from corporate trafficking syndicates to biosecurity directorates and eradication mandates — with matching tradition trees on both sides of the glass.
      Captive Pits and capture pipelines: raiding stances, battlefield leader captures, and fleet-wreck harvesting feed your holdings.

Both sides:
      23 tradition trees covering captures, brood development, infestation, containment, and ascension — plus 16 ascension perks.
      3 ready-made prescripted empires and 3 AI personalities so the galaxy fights (or farms) the Hive without you.
      Compat patches for Ethics & Civics: Bug Branch and Expanded Gestalts: Forgotten Queens ship alongside the mod.

New features:
      Added the Hive Evolution Chamber — an edict-opened evolution menu (styled as a hive hex-lattice board) where Evolution Points earned from converting organics unlock four exotic war-castes: Widow, Pyrogen, Puppeteer, and Warlock.
      Added two research-grown assault castes: the Ravager (melee elite) and the Boiler (long-range acid artillery).
      Added Brood-Tribute Subjugation — the broodstock-harvest war goal now permanently vassalizes the defeated as an oppressive tributary — and the Restraint casus belli, letting other empires free every subject the Hive holds.
      Added Divergent Brood Ecologies: fully-adapted non-resin worlds roll one of five permanent ecological roles.
      Added three world-doctrine hive civics (Synaptic Ganglion, Metabolic Strip-Mining, Digestive Assimilation) and two egg-economy amplifier civics (Fecund Brood, Hatchery Doctrine).

Balance & design:
      A full consolidation sweep removed or merged systems that duplicated each other — dead deposits, orphaned traits and technologies, redundant buildings — and gave two empty tradition picks real effects.
      Egg Caretakers now grant their full intended egg-storage bonus.
      Several hive-form (gestalt) jobs were reconnected to the mod's own economic categories, so hive empires properly receive their job-output amplifiers.
      The Galactic Infestation civic was renamed Virulent Strain and reworded: the infestation itself is innate to every Xenomorph empire — the civic only amplifies it.

Fixes:
      Hive-world conversion projects now correctly enforce one project at a time per world (and mutually exclude with vanilla arcology projects).
      The queen-capture decision now actually resolves — previously it charged its full cost and silently did nothing — and respects its cooldown.
      Fixed all three prescripted empires being hidden from the empire-selection list.
      Fixed seven civics leaking into the wrong empire types' selection menus.
      The Black Resin origin's starting capital now seeds the correct hive-world districts.
      Custom bombardment stances now display their proper names.
      Cleared every startup parse error the mod produced, and fixed several tooltips that failed to render.
      Descriptor paths are now portable — installs work on any machine without editing the .mod file.

UI & icons:
      31 new custom icons: 12 civic icons, 12 job icons, and 7 tradition pick icons (the Brood Harvest tree no longer shares one borrowed icon).
      A custom green-yellow hex-lattice banner for the Hive Evolution Chamber.

Known issues:
      The hive primer popup can render taller than the screen under UI Overhaul Dynamic — a paginated version is in progress.