Golden Girl

That's another of the great things about the Incarnate system - after each new Trial is added to the game, players who complete it get extra text options when talking to Prometheus, and he gives us more info on the Well and the current situation in the multiverse.
Like after the first 2 Trials came out, if we mentioned the Comign Styrom to Prometheus, he just told us to focus on Tyrant and the loyalists threat - then after I20.5 and the Keyes' Reactor Trial, he told us more about the Well, and that it needed a champion or champions to protect it against the Coming Storm - and that if Tyrant was it's champion, then all of humanity would be lost before the Coming Storm even arrived - and now in I21 with the Underground Trial, he actually names the Coming Storm as the Battalion, but still says we need to defeat the loyalist meance first - once the multiverse is safe form Tyrant and the loyalists, and we're the champions of the Well, we'll be ready to face the Battalion.

And as the devs have said they're working on another 2 Incarnate Trials, I think we can expect more revelations from Prometheus as the Praetorian part of the Incanrate storyline reaches its climax.

That happened in the far future - according to the Mysterious Letter Writer, Twilight's Son betrayed the rest of his race to the Battalion, and then fled to our time to escape them before they could come for him too.

They're an alien force that apparently use Kheldians as fuel for their starships - they've been floating around im the lroe for a while now, and were once planned to be an enemy group that would be so powerful players would need the invention system to fight them, and they wouldn't be able to solo them - that basic idea seems to still be around, and the Battalion are being lined up as a threat even more dangerous than Tyrant and the loyalists - so it looks like we'll need the Incarnate powers to be able to fight them, rather than the invention system.

You mean like they've done with saying he's a villain?

The Coming Storm is the Battalion

I sure that must comfort his hundreds of thousands of victims that died for "the greater good".

Exactly - the memorable ones

That's generally the way it works with villains

Did he murder Ernie at the Well of the Furies?

Maybe Domiatrix wanted one to spice up their family life?

The Praetorian people are being drugged to be passive and accepting

In the 1-20 GR content, players can run itno Maelstrom who's on a personal misison from Tyrant himself to plant beacons to summon the Devouring Earth to kill the magistrates who sympathize with the Resistance, removing them and giving Tyrant the chance to swoop in and save the day again from the Devouring Earth - and he's been pulling that trick since the Hamidon Wars

He's also set up an empire built on and propped up by mass-murder, torture, brain-washing and slavery, and is currently trying to conquer the entire multiverse - so the moral verdict on him still has to be "quite naughty".

Perhaps the author of that piece could give you an answer:

And sacrifices himself in battle with the Hamidon

I was thinking more of real Star Wars rather than fake Star Wars - Tyrant basically tells Duray that he was a clumsy as he was stupid, and that he's failed him for the last time, then kills him in fornt of his own men - I guess that's the standard way to deal with problems in an evil empire

And neither do most Paretorians:

It's down to your personal taste

Tyrant is very keen to project a certain image to his followers and his enemies - just compare the loyalist propaganda posters with their "our guardian" and "hero" slogans to the Arachnos poster with their "obey and live" slogans - Tyrant rules with an "obey or live" policy, but unlike Recluse, he doesn't want to give people the impression that he's a villain.

John "Protean" Hegner - the one who does the writing for the Incarnate storyline

Yes, Tyrant using the Devouring Earth threat as a chance to play the role of the savior of humanity is a totally new tactic for him to try

Time to test out that new server hardware

That's not quite correct - the loyalist option was known about as far back at October 2009, and GR itself was only announced in May 2009 - the original idea seems to have been to have it very obvious that loyalsist = Villain, and Resistance = Hero, going by this post by Positron from October 2009:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=196732

Some of that original idea also showed up during the beta, when all loyalist missions had the Villain mission completion music, and all Resistance missions had the Hero completion music, and Resistance players could choose Hero titles, and loyalist could choose Villain titles.

I thought that the general opinion was that we have quite a lot of Nemesis in the game?

Ther truth is always simple