My apologies for lateness. Report follows:
2335 - Everything looks good. Colony ships are en route along with population. My usual strategy with the Rocks is to provide seeds to new colonies and then grow pop as needed. Micromanaging fleets of transports is not my cup of tea.
As for long term strategy I am most interested in pushing into the southeast corner of the map, so with that in mind I readjust tech spending to 1/6 planetology, 5/6 propulsion in order to get Range 6 faster. This drops IT20 from 9% to 5%, but I don’t care all that much about IT20 right this minute.
Much to my chagrin I discover that I can’t grow pop until I finish terraforming all of my worlds, which is something that i am not inclined to do until I manage to get some more production. So for now I leave most of my planets to fend for themselves.
Tyr in the north will be colonized in four turns once our colony ship arrives. I know that there are lizards lurking around up there somewhere and so I decide to spend Cryslon’s accumulated ship production on a fleet of 40 basic laser fighters which will head up toward Tyr next turn. Artemis covers research for one turn.
2336 - Laser fighters are on their way to Centauri and from there to Tyr. Cryslon back to research, Artemis back to reserve spending. Quayal will be colonized next turn, and from there we will see what the Humans are up to.
2337 - Quayal colonized.
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This reveals a Human scout incoming at Bootis in two turns. This is why its important to maintain scout screens at uncolonized planets! Our colony ship is due there in three turns, but the dirty apes will get a look at it first. At least they can’t colonize it yet! Scout t Quayal departs of the red star south of the Human Phyco colony. Its so nice of the Humans to hold it for us while we prepare our fleets to take it over!
Cryslon sends 7 pop to Quayal, but as a poor planet it will be on its own for the most part.
Propulsion tech is starting to fill. Good.
2338 - Laser fighters arrive at Centauri and are sent on to Tyr. I wish I could build more but I can’t spare the production right now.
2339 - IT20 hits.
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IT30 is the only option. Nuts!
I also colonize Tyr.
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This brings us to 6 planets and the first colonization announcement. Go Rocks!
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We also get introduced to the Sakkra:
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Hissa is an Aggressive Industrialist with 4 planets
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and a decent fleet incoming to Tyr. I’m afraid that it will beat our laser force by a turn, which is very poor luck. I send pop to Tyr from both Centauri (4) and Cryslon (10). I hope that this isn’t a huge mistake!
I sign Hissa to a 25BC trade deal, which I hope will boost relations enough to make him agree to leave Tyr alone. Stupid lizards! He will accept either of our terraforming techs as tribute but won’t trade anything for them. Too bad.
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The lizards are also outranking us rather handily, but at this point I’m not too worried. They only grow population four times faster than we can.
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Stupid lizards!
2340 - The humans redirect their scout and we colonize Bootis unopposed.
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It looks like their scout is heading for the southernmost white star which means that they have an alliance with someone in the SE as if they had range to reach it alone they would be in contact with us by now.
The Sakkra are incoming at Tyr next turn
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while our fleet is still two years out. I resort to my tried and true tactic of bluffs and empty threats.
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Miraculously it goes pretty well! Maybe I didn’t need those laser fighters after all… Of course our relations take a small hit, but we are still trading, so I’m not too worried. Also Hissa has other directions to expand without pushing us around.
2341 - The Sakkra fleet turns back from Tyr without incident. Yay! We do not need a war right now!
2342 - We discover Stalaz south of the Humans.
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Now we REALLY need range 6! The bulb is about half full. The scout heads off to try and intercept the Humans at the bottom white star. I wish I knew who else was out there!
2343 - The Sakkra grabbed their 5th planet. Looks like they are moving east. Apparently Industrialist actually means Expansionist in Lizard. Stupid lizards!
2344 - A quiet turn. Range 6 is almost into the percentages, and our planets continue to grow.
2345 - Nothing to report.
2346 - Nothing to report.
2347 - Xengara scouted at the bottom of the map.
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Range 6 is in the percentages! Yay! Time to start some colony ships as we have at least 3 planets to grab once it comes in. Artemis can build one in 2 years!
2348 - Nothing to report.
2349 - Colony ship en route to Tauri for the UR planets in the galactic center once range research completes. All quiet.
2350 - And that is all she wrote! Range 6 is at 20%, planets are growing slowly, and that is about all. I have not spent any reserve funds this turn.
As far as long-term strategy, I would say that we need to push colonization both to the southeast and into the galactic center, and then see where we can go. The Sakkra are growing quickly and they appear to be largely unopposed to their east, which could make them runaways down the road. We have not had any status reports lately, so that information is sorely needed to give us a sense of how things stand. Other than a scout I haven’t seen anything from the humans, and their south is uninhabitable anyway.
As for long term strategy I am most interested in pushing into the southeast corner of the map, so with that in mind I readjust tech spending to 1/6 planetology, 5/6 propulsion in order to get Range 6 faster. This drops IT20 from 9% to 5%, but I don’t care all that much about IT20 right this minute.
Much to my chagrin I discover that I can’t grow pop until I finish terraforming all of my worlds, which is something that i am not inclined to do until I manage to get some more production. So for now I leave most of my planets to fend for themselves.
Tyr in the north will be colonized in four turns once our colony ship arrives. I know that there are lizards lurking around up there somewhere and so I decide to spend Cryslon’s accumulated ship production on a fleet of 40 basic laser fighters which will head up toward Tyr next turn. Artemis covers research for one turn.
2336 - Laser fighters are on their way to Centauri and from there to Tyr. Cryslon back to research, Artemis back to reserve spending. Quayal will be colonized next turn, and from there we will see what the Humans are up to.
2337 - Quayal colonized.
This reveals a Human scout incoming at Bootis in two turns. This is why its important to maintain scout screens at uncolonized planets! Our colony ship is due there in three turns, but the dirty apes will get a look at it first. At least they can’t colonize it yet! Scout t Quayal departs of the red star south of the Human Phyco colony. Its so nice of the Humans to hold it for us while we prepare our fleets to take it over!
Cryslon sends 7 pop to Quayal, but as a poor planet it will be on its own for the most part.
Propulsion tech is starting to fill. Good.
2338 - Laser fighters arrive at Centauri and are sent on to Tyr. I wish I could build more but I can’t spare the production right now.
2339 - IT20 hits.
IT30 is the only option. Nuts!
I also colonize Tyr.
This brings us to 6 planets and the first colonization announcement. Go Rocks!
We also get introduced to the Sakkra:
Hissa is an Aggressive Industrialist with 4 planets
and a decent fleet incoming to Tyr. I’m afraid that it will beat our laser force by a turn, which is very poor luck. I send pop to Tyr from both Centauri (4) and Cryslon (10). I hope that this isn’t a huge mistake!
I sign Hissa to a 25BC trade deal, which I hope will boost relations enough to make him agree to leave Tyr alone. Stupid lizards! He will accept either of our terraforming techs as tribute but won’t trade anything for them. Too bad.
The lizards are also outranking us rather handily, but at this point I’m not too worried. They only grow population four times faster than we can.
Stupid lizards!
2340 - The humans redirect their scout and we colonize Bootis unopposed.
It looks like their scout is heading for the southernmost white star which means that they have an alliance with someone in the SE as if they had range to reach it alone they would be in contact with us by now.
The Sakkra are incoming at Tyr next turn
while our fleet is still two years out. I resort to my tried and true tactic of bluffs and empty threats.
Miraculously it goes pretty well! Maybe I didn’t need those laser fighters after all… Of course our relations take a small hit, but we are still trading, so I’m not too worried. Also Hissa has other directions to expand without pushing us around.
2341 - The Sakkra fleet turns back from Tyr without incident. Yay! We do not need a war right now!
2342 - We discover Stalaz south of the Humans.
Now we REALLY need range 6! The bulb is about half full. The scout heads off to try and intercept the Humans at the bottom white star. I wish I knew who else was out there!
2343 - The Sakkra grabbed their 5th planet. Looks like they are moving east. Apparently Industrialist actually means Expansionist in Lizard. Stupid lizards!
2344 - A quiet turn. Range 6 is almost into the percentages, and our planets continue to grow.
2345 - Nothing to report.
2346 - Nothing to report.
2347 - Xengara scouted at the bottom of the map.
Range 6 is in the percentages! Yay! Time to start some colony ships as we have at least 3 planets to grab once it comes in. Artemis can build one in 2 years!
2348 - Nothing to report.
2349 - Colony ship en route to Tauri for the UR planets in the galactic center once range research completes. All quiet.
2350 - And that is all she wrote! Range 6 is at 20%, planets are growing slowly, and that is about all. I have not spent any reserve funds this turn.
As far as long-term strategy, I would say that we need to push colonization both to the southeast and into the galactic center, and then see where we can go. The Sakkra are growing quickly and they appear to be largely unopposed to their east, which could make them runaways down the road. We have not had any status reports lately, so that information is sorely needed to give us a sense of how things stand. Other than a scout I haven’t seen anything from the humans, and their south is uninhabitable anyway.