They were originally planned as a mid-late game thing (mid-teens in level), but because of a shortening in the storyline (10 planets/20 levels to 6 planets/15-ish levels), there's a real possibility they might not get in-game at all.
They were originally planned as a mid-late game thing (mid-teens in level), but because of a shortening in the storyline (10 planets/20 levels to 6 planets/15-ish levels), there's a real possibility they might not get in-game at all.
I don't know either of those; maybe Fen decided having ten story planets was too ambitious and made the executive decision to make the one after Dhaal the last one. The level cap drop almost certainly would've been to compensate for the shorter storyline.