I got that, I did a diff compare with the game files against your files and there are just too many changes in your files to quickly browse through them, good news though I believe is that the expansion didn't further modify any of the core files. If you need any help let me know.
In short it doesn't work with mercenaries. Just a list of things of what's wrong with it at the moment: 1. Game crashes when you start a new custom game traced to PlanedDefs.xml which is missing couple of references for Arcea and Toria 2. Missing bunch of references for Torians in your XML files which obviously reflects on the game and makes torians completely unusable (an example ImprovementsDef.xml makes some improvements unavailable, ShipHullDefs.xml missing Torian tech r