Thanks for posting all that, Matchstickman - greatly appreciate it.
AWESOME!!! 
Best. Power. Ever. 
Ok I was at work and unfortunately can't follow everything match put down on the list. So 3 questions I guess I want clarification on.
1) akashd'buta (sorry if I misspelled, always screw this name up) will be a stand alone expansion? So basically a mini expansion with her being the only villian? anyone else to come with her? My only other issue is no tokens, instead I have to buy the figures? No offense but money wise for me I rather have the tokens. The figures cost to much for what they bring to the game for me. So hopefully greater than games will rethink this.
2) was naturalist made also today? Or did we just see future art?
3) will this event be posted to YouTube so those of us who had jobs can watch. If so please break up videos in 20-30 segments to make it easier to watch.
I can answer some of this.
1) Yes, it seems that Akash'dharsha (she has a new name for Tactics) will be a mini-expansion. One huge mini, three regular-sized ones, a comic/scenarios book, some cover tokens and such. The plan is to have two different boxes, painted and unpainted, without character tokens. I'd love character tokens myself because although I'll be getting the minis I like to use tokens when I transport the game. I don't want to risk damaging the minis, and besides they take up a lot of space.
2) We saw art for the future Naturalist, no character design. He looks pretty cool.
3) Yes, it was confirmed that the videos will go on YouTube. I don't know if they'll be cut up. But you know that if you're signed in, YouTube remembers where you've watched to so you can just drop right back in there later?
personally I like the tokens due to cost. If it comes out to be 20 dollars cheaper for me to buy it without figures and just with character tokens then that's the route I prefer because then I can still enjoy the game and use that extra money on something else, especially since money is tight. The figures have never done anything for the game to make them a must have for me. However, I have a feeling though this is a logistics issue on greater than games part and if someone on the greater than games team could expand on this decision that would be great because I am curious to know why this was decided to go this route and if this is the plan for any other expansions down the road
On a side note, did they give any ideas on when preorders and approximate goal for release date were?
GtG mentioned that there are currently two different versions of the product (painted or not), and if there were tokens, then there would need to be 3 different versions, which might be a bit much. Also, this decision also limited the mechanics they were considering. At one point they wanted tokens for certain effects, but that would require a token sheet, which wasn't planned.
Was there any mention on when this mini-expansion will be released?
Will it be possible to add the pre-order of Akash'Dharsha to the pre-order for Broken City (regarding international shipping costs etc).
Akash' Darsha people, I spelled it correctly in my post! (It does mean something, in a language I don't understand).
The price mentioned (and again this is very early in the process) unpainted was $20, so getting it with tokens at $20 less is probably not a thing!
I believe (though this is going off my faulty memory and not from my notes so take this with a pinch of salt) that next year at the same time as the RPG was talked about as a release date. (That time frame was certainly talked about though possibly not in relation to the release of Akash'D)
Also mentioned was the possibility that the scenario would need Rook City tiles, so at least one expansion on top of the base set. This is an item being created for fans who have everything and really, really like it. AGAIN, this is very early in the processes and is subject to change.
I think $10 was mentioned as a possible price for a token-only version, if they decide to do that.
I remembered a thing from Luther's Q&A!
There are other Tac-Die systems in the works, nothing he could confirmed right now.
If you can't wait for the video to be cut into chunks and uplaoded to Youtube, the video is up on Twitch as their last broadcast, it is just under 9 hours long.
It's Sanskrit.
Akash'bhuta roughly translates to "aether ghost".
In this context, Aether is one of the 5 elements.
Dharsha is a lot more complicated, but it (very) roughly translates to "revelation" or "awaken" in a spiritual sense. I'm sure I'm getting the connotations all wrong though!
I want to weigh in on the "Token vs No Token" thing.
In my mind the precedent was already set when the Core game and 1st Expansion came with just tokens and minis being an extra cost. There are a lot of folks (myself included) who do not have and may not ever go down the mini rabbit hole. It is really awkward to have a full game setup where you have all these character tokens and one lone mini. This would be very different if the game came with minis as a baseline. But it didn't.
I wouldn't mind as much if this mini-expansion always came with a mini (painted or not) to keep with the idea of only having 2 products, but they both need character tokens.
At the moment, it looks like Akash-darsha will need a punchboard sheet anyway. I doubt the folks that buy only Core #2 (which is a legit option) will have lava tokens right? She will need to come with those tokens on a punchboard sheet anyway if current mechanics hold over to production. You can fit the character tokens on that sheet as well.
That makes total sense to me given the context of Dharsha's backstory
Other news!
Craig and Christopher are going for an Indian meal before heading out to origins
I would be fine if they just add a token into the mini expansion. I don't use the minis, but I can understand not wanting to make three sets. I just don't want to be stuck using minis for akash when I play.
(Apparently I agree with Foote)
Did they say how Akash affects terrain in her big form? Moving through Akash will be confusing.
They did not.
Also no comments on how to move through Akash, I assume you will not able to.
Moving Akash however was talked about, she moves like a regular mini/token with her centre hex being her starting and ending point (so not like Omnitron swiveling around).
Playtesting files were sent out to Luther and his group during the stream last night, so expect some of this to have changed by the time anyone else sees them.
Just jumping in here to provide correct spelling: Akash'Dharsha
That is all!
No smoke bombs?
Nah.
Damnit! I could have sworn I heard you spell it out the way I spelled it on the stream.
sigh
(Also google has only 34000 results for Dharsha and 350000 for Darsha, the top of which is talking about the origin of the name, I took that as a good sign)