Golden Girl

A lot of people were asking or them to make a big deal of it by actually making an endgame system

Nothing - it's just the usual incoherent rage

I wonder if Tyrant's lava lair, which is connected to the Well of the Furies, can be accessed from the basement of his tower via some kind of portal? Like that could be where he runs to after we trash the Magisterium and storm his tower - he could fall back there and give himself over completely to the Well, and become a massively powerful final boss for a Trial.
I think it'd be rather fun to have the final showdown with Tyrant in the same place as our original fight with him

You don't really think that all this work for the endgame system, Leagues, queues, powers and Incarnate slots is going to finish after four 30 mintue Trials, do you?

You do realize that this has been planned since before GR came out, right?
It's not some last minute thing they've decide to add - the Lambda Sector fortress, just like the BAF annd Anti-Matter's reactors were built into the actual zones at the same time as Praetoria City was being designed - they haven't just suddenly added them, or removed older blocks and replaced them, like with Wentworths or the AE buildings - they were made into part of the fabric of the city before GR even went into closed beta, because GR and the Incarnate sytem have always been linked together and planned together.

This is from the Lambda Sector overview:

The trials seem to be being themed around various aspects of the dictatorship that we have to destroy to smash the whole system - for example, the BAF is centered around brainwashing/mindcontrol, Lambda is the IDF/invasion army, Anti-matetr's reactors might have a clockwork theme to them, as both he and Neuron have their own Clockwork, and the Praetorian Hamidon is one of the big things that got Tyrant to where he is today - and Mother Mayhem's asylum would be focused on the Seers and their enslavement.

So if you look at the pillars of the dictatorship - Enriche/brainwashing, the IDF/military power, the Clockwork, the Seer network and the threat of the Hamidon/Tyrant's claim to be the only one able to stop it, then it does look like the Trials are being designed around them.
The BAF Trial is a blow against Tyrant's brainwashing/propaganda, Lambda Sector is a blow against Tyrant's military might, the Anti-Matter reactor is a potential blow against the Clockwork/mechanized forces of Tyrant, and potential Mother Mayhem Trial is a blow against Tyrant's thought police and system of slavery, and the Hamidon Trial is a blow against Tyrant's claims to be the one and only way of stopping the Devouring Earth.

All the various forces of oppression that were introduced in GR become the focus of the Incarnate Trials for us to liberate Praetoria - it has a nice flow to it - discover the evil of the dictatorship 1-20, escape the evil of the dictatroship 20-50, return to destroy the evil of the dictatorship 50+.

Also, as the PPD/secet police are also one of the instriuments of oppression used by Tyrant, and as we haven't fought Chimera yet, there could be a Trial themed around crippling them too.
Infernal, Diabolique, and possibly Black Swan could be invovled in a Trial about the mystery of where all the magic went in Praetoria, especially if it's reveled that Tyrant has suppressed it in some way.

And if you want to know who might have taken the name first, check out the chest symbol of the other new hero arrving at the end

As they get more desperate, their claims get wilder

One Trial per Issue would mean they'd be adding other stuff too - Issue 20 is massive because of the new Trial system - a huge amount of the current testing is focused just on getting it right - but once it's been added to the game, adding further Trials becomes easier.
Once it's up and running, creating new Trails won't need the same amount of time and resources that are being used on I20, which should free up more time and resources for non-Trial content.

EDIT: Also, adding a new Trial against Praetorians in an Issue doesn't mean that the Issue has to be focused on Praetoria - the Praetorian war and the cosmic upheaval caused by Tyrant and the Well can be in the background, and used as a reason for other stuff to get some attention - there are lots of known and unknown groups who could try and take advantage of the situation.

It's simply one of the many benefits of Enrcihe, citizen - it's shows you every thing from the Praetorian angle.

The only dev response so far to the handful of "we h8 pr3t0ri4z" types has been to announce that the next 2 Trials are against Anti-Matter and the Preetorian Hamidon - and these are the same devs who pulled a major feature from GR to redesign it to match player feedback - so it's not that they don't lsiten

Also, after those 2 Trials, there is a lot more Praetorian content to come

It'll have to be the applause
As far as I know, it's just something that I made up myself.

"Many of the same people" would be more accurate

Roy Cooling's arc has quite a lot to do with Praetoria, actually

The failure of Champions Online was down to the inability of the players to understand the vision of Jack.

The next 2 level shifts only work on the Incarnate Trials

His "stuff" is going to be used to take over the multiverse - that makes him mean by default

One of the next Incarnate Trials they're working on is an attack on Anti-Matter's reactors on his power station island, so I think we'll see some more tantrums from him during that raid

He acts pretty mean on the Lambda Sector Trial

Which they are

Praetorians can arrive at similar destinations to their Primal Earth versions, but via different paths.

I like them

The only thing significant about these people is that they're such a tiny minority - which makes them insignificant