I believe we can still steal and pointy-stick non-Sili techs, yes ... although I don't remember now if I've ever tried it with kyrub's patch. Which race did you mean by the Humans, though? Because if there are any Humans left in the galaxy, it means I uploaded the wrong save....
(Since it's such a severe mess though, I'm assuming it's the right save. I tried to leave our stuff as neat as I could, but I couldn't do anything about the AIs!)
Good question about Impulse Drives. I'd been assuming we could slowly start using decent combat speed in the later game, and I think I'd still rather go that way, but sticking to Maneuver 1 the whole game would be an interesting challenge. Either way, I'm pretty sure this is going to be your last turn set of the SG, Ianus. You'll have a vote in 5 turns, then Thrawn will get another at the end of his set if we don't kill everyone first, and if we're still playing after that, I expect to at least be positioned to end it. We'll see though! If nothing else, the Meklar may still have a surprise or two up their biomechanical sleeves!
[EDIT: On the not-game-related question, they aren't fixing their mistake because they have wealth and power and I'm just a lowly employee. They may ask themselves: What am I going to do about it? I mean, go work for someone else, obviously, and I've been working on that anyway, necessarily, since the health benefits evaporated without warning. From the perspective of my coworkers and direct supervisors, I'm a really capable and reliable employee, but from the perspective of the Payroll and Employee Detriments department, I'm just a collection of numbers on a balance sheet.]
(Since it's such a severe mess though, I'm assuming it's the right save. I tried to leave our stuff as neat as I could, but I couldn't do anything about the AIs!)
Good question about Impulse Drives. I'd been assuming we could slowly start using decent combat speed in the later game, and I think I'd still rather go that way, but sticking to Maneuver 1 the whole game would be an interesting challenge. Either way, I'm pretty sure this is going to be your last turn set of the SG, Ianus. You'll have a vote in 5 turns, then Thrawn will get another at the end of his set if we don't kill everyone first, and if we're still playing after that, I expect to at least be positioned to end it. We'll see though! If nothing else, the Meklar may still have a surprise or two up their biomechanical sleeves!
[EDIT: On the not-game-related question, they aren't fixing their mistake because they have wealth and power and I'm just a lowly employee. They may ask themselves: What am I going to do about it? I mean, go work for someone else, obviously, and I've been working on that anyway, necessarily, since the health benefits evaporated without warning. From the perspective of my coworkers and direct supervisors, I'm a really capable and reliable employee, but from the perspective of the Payroll and Employee Detriments department, I'm just a collection of numbers on a balance sheet.]