Thanks very much for the compliments! I didn't quite control every star in the galaxy: I had hoped to take Orion before achieving extermination, but wound up lacking the time to play that out. I actually didn't realize until just now that this could have been the first game of Orion in which I controlled literally every star - no empty stars in this galaxy! "Then we killed all their fleets, stuck the Salt Croc in orbit over their last world, and hit next turn a zillion times until he had a Guardian-Killer fleet" wouldn't have made for very good storytelling even if I had time though.
(I'm not sure that turning "Viper" into "Vespasian" actually worked as a name, but I'm sticking with it anyway; this choice of name had nothing to do with his personality, a little to do with rising to power from military leadership, and everything to do with the letter V.)
sargon0 Wrote:(what comes above Extermination?)Vipersian! <Evil, sibilant, understated laughter...>
(I'm not sure that turning "Viper" into "Vespasian" actually worked as a name, but I'm sticking with it anyway; this choice of name had nothing to do with his personality, a little to do with rising to power from military leadership, and everything to do with the letter V.)