I may update this with more story filled in, but here it is.
2300
There is only one star within range of our bulky colony ship, so I send it there. The Imperial Scientists claim that they have such wonderful ideas that will revolutionize the way we this about whatever-the-heck-they-are-masters-in-the-field-of. Since they never actually tell me what it is that they have ideas for, I'll believe it when I see it. Still, they ask for funding, so I give them funding - at the expense of the growth of our world.
2301
The Master of Computers and Electronics finally comes to me with his great idea... the ability to scan objects nearly twice as far from our planets as what we can now and to create miniature one so we can have our ships themselves act as our eyes and ears in space. He announces the name of the project is an manner fit for a used gyrocopter salesman: The Deep Space Scanner! When I ask him why not fully double the range of the planetary scanners, he shifts into a Tumbili and - to add to his distain - curls it's prehinsile tail into a facsimile of an obscene gesture and skitters out of the room.
A Pweza suffles in. I immediately recognize it as being the Master of Construction and Design by the way it is clumsily trying to keep hold of a pile of papers in each of its tentacles. It crawls towards me, wheezing and clacking its beak in an attempt to talk and flashing papers at me in an erratic manner. This goes on for a full minute until I loudly clear my throat. He quickly shifts into his normal form and apologizes profusely. "The long and short of it, sir, is that I have theorized a way to reduce the output of pollution of our factories and thus reduce the cost of cleaning up after them." he murmurs. "So what do you call this theory?" "I... er... that is... I never really gave it a name. I've just been calling it Reduced Industrial Waste to 80%." With a sigh, I clear him for funding and he spends a good two minutes trying to gather his research. I still don't understand how a person can pull off being so amusing and so boring at the same time.
*Deflecter Shield II*
*Improved Eco Restoration by The Master of Planetology and Environmental Studies*
*Hydrogen Fuel Cells [Range 4] by the Master of Propultion and Scouting*
*Gatling Laser by the Master of Weapons*
2303
The colony ship sent to the nearest planet has reported in. The single habitable planet has rivers crisscrossing its island contents, making it a vastly fertile planet. Unfortunately, it has little in the way of heavy metals. Well then, call up Ma' and Pa', we've got ourselves a new farm.
2304
Gienah, the new planet we have found, is the opposite of Stalaz. Heavy metals practically float to the surface of each lava flow, but obviously, it's not a nice place to live. The other star I sent a scout to had some beautiful asteroid belts, but no planets.
2305
There are now more than half the projected number of people our great homeworld can possibly hold, so I start sending off the poorest of the poor to Stalaz. Kills two Ndege with one stone. The poor get jobs and less poor on our homeworld.
2306
I have a great idea! You know how worthless the poor are, being - well - poor? Well, let's have a mass education for all those who live on Stalaz. Their little tinkerings in elementary Calculus should provide some help to the homeworld scientists, right?
2308
I have run out of poor to send to Stalaz.
2311
The scout ship has reached Beta Ceti. What a world. As fertile as Stalaz, but with normal amounts of heavy metals. This just brightened up my day. I started to change the spending around so that we could start producing a new colony ship, but all of the Masters glared at me. This sparked a long debate over what to do about the prospect of what to do about finding new planets.
2312
After nearly a year of debating, I have finally gotten them to concede to letting me send out a new type of Scout ship, the Mwangaliaji class ship (different only in that it is cheaper than the previous model), but only one a year. Well, it's better than nothing.
2317
Five years later, there are enough Mwangaliaji scout ships to check out all the local star systems. I just happen to forget to change the funding and it merely slips my mind that I left the plans for a new, cheaper, class Kijiji colony ship on the desk of the president of the largest shipbuilding corporation. I am so forgetful some days...
2319
The reports that an alien ship was sighted at Paranar are completely false. I repeat, there are no such things as alien Walipaka! By the way, Paranar is a decent planet to live on, if we can make our way there.
2322
*discovery of Range 4 and Master going on vacation on Stalaz* With that Master gone, I divert the funds to the others
I receive word that two completely different worlds have been discovered on the same day. Aurora is a dismal little desert planet, but it might have some interesting spices growing on it or something. Let's just hope there are no Mnyoochanga there. Kulthos is covered in a vast ocean, but has a dissying number of islands! I'll bet the Master of Propultion and Scouting wishes she could have waited a few months to swim with the Samaki on this planet!
With this new found range, I send the Scout over Gienah to search the new planet that just came into reach.
2324
The Mwangaliaji sent to the coreward blue star has yet to report in. Something is wrong. He's either crashed into something or found a planet of Amazons.
Also, the poor on Stalaz have been educated enough. Now on to what all the poor hope to achieve in life: building and working in factories! Of course, the top 4% will be kept in science studies as they actually all qualified to be college students. Who would have thought?
2327
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but there are no such things as starcraft being piloted by four-armed Waseebongo, especially in the vicinity of Aurora!
2328
The Master of Computers and Electronics struts into my office with a smug look on his face. He announces, with a disgusting amount of pomp and flair, that his project - The Deep Space Scanner 3000 - is complete. He even shifts into a Sokwe and pounds his chest in triump. Annoyed by this presentation, I remind him on how small the reproductive organ of Masokwe really are. The look on his face when he left brightened up my whole day.
A few months later, the scout sent to the north has reported back. Maretta is a vast jungle planet with few metal ore steams. Maretta - seriously, who comes up with such alien sounding names?
2331
*Force Field II and another retiree for Stalaz*
2338
*Reduced 80%*With a loud clatter, a Swala bursts into my office. After I calm it down, I coax the Master of Construction and Design to resume his normal form. He apologizes about the mess, but that he was so exited to tell me that his project was completed. I was surprised to see a smile cross his face. The little bore was actually proud of himself. A well, I amuse myself with the thought of trapping him in my personal garden as a Kuchakulo watching him chitter and run around. At least his life wouldn't change one bit. But I send him on his way.
2342
*Improved Eco Restoration*
2343
*Gatling laser and a missing mountain*
Now that I have no more Masters to deal with, I assign the budget to what ever I want - however I want. First and foremost, I split L. Nobilis's spending between factories and building that Kijiji. Fat lot of good it did to let that paperwork oversight trickle money into it. Those researchers on Stalaz are sent to be CEOs of the new factories. I expect a production boom from all this.
2345
I have a nightmare about a golden robot telling me that everyone else was making more than me. I'm still not sure what that is supposed to mean.
2353
After so long, I can finally say that a true Darlok flag has been planted on Beta Ceti. In the past 50 years, the quality of living has gone up slightly. I choose 20 million of the poorest Darloks on L. Nobilis and 15 million on Stalaz to populate this beautiful new world. *first to 3 worlds! Odd.*
2357
A couple of years after the news of the first colonists arriving at Beta Ceti, I also get the news that the green star to the west has a flipped around environment. Metals galore, but nothing will grow there. Such a waste, too.
2359
The scout orbiting Rayden has been recalled after reporting unknown ships were heading his way. Something must be wrong with the sensors.
2360
In an odd way to celebrate the founding of the first colony on Kulthos, a well renowned hacker simultaneously overwrote all broadband channels and shifts into what is being called a Mseebongo and 'greets' the Darlok Empire. He has been taken into police custody.
Later that week, I personally interview him and approach him about hacking into an undisclosed foreign database. If he accepts, he will be placed in a secret government facility with all the technology he could ever want. He finally accepts when I play my trump card of letting him have a weekly conjugal visit with the actress of his choice. A more secure paperwork misfiling appropriates the needed funds.
I also start building missile bases at L. Nobilis. Can't be too careful about those deadly meteor showers! In an unrelated note, I also design Medium sized starcraft to test out the practicality of the Gatling Lasers. I name this class after the Nyigu because of how much they can sting.
2365
After five long years, the hacker has finally paid off. Must have been my threat to end his conjugal privileges. He is now tasked with decrypting each part of the database.
2367
Aurora has been settled. No Mnyoochanga in sight, right Bob? ...Bob? Hey, Bob, where you go?
2369
*Psilons declare war!* With Beta Ceti such a popular place, I fear that a meteor strike might kill off some of my fine citizens. Let the missile bases be made!
2371
The sensors on the old Scouts must be defective. There was no ship landing on Maretta and it did not disgorge thousands of Walikata. I have decommissioned both of them.
2372
The largest fleet of Nyigu has been sent to Kulthos for a live fire exercise.
2373
The hacker has been taking his time, but he finally completely decoded the first entry in the planetology section of the database. It has information on how to encourage favorable weather patterns on Barren planets.
2375
The live fire exercise was a complete success! They scared off--- err... I mean completely destroyed all target asteroids. A celebration shall be held in their honor!
2378
That poor, poor soul in room 152. He's gone crazy, he has. Lost his mind in the middle of space. Must have lost some family in that meteor strike on Kulthos. First, he sent word that an alien ship landed on Paranar. Then he said that a flood of Walikata covered the landing site. Then he send a video of himself shifted into a Mwalikata and said that all Darloks should submit to their rule. I do hope he passes quietly in the gas chamber. At least he'll quiet down.
2380
The hacker has struck again. This time with information pertaining to rapidly cooling an Inferno planet's surface. We can also use some of this information to deal with Dead planets, like Rayden. I have sent a large number of 'Specially Trained Scientists' to bring Rayden to our fold and an honor guard of Nyigu to keep all those pesky meteors away.
I show the hacker a new database. He asks for assistants, which I give him a few. He has proven himself with this last find.
2381
And again, the hacker pays for himself. This time with a design for a better computer for our ship's targeting and evasion computer. Mark III, apparently.
2383
Official report:
Sad news from Rayden. The entire fleet of Honor Guard and their charges were incinerated by a freak Flare Burst from the star.
Unofficial report:
We are more than a match for their ships, but their missile bases will be a tougher nut to crack.
2384
Another new find from my little hacker group. Engines that propel the ship at twice the normal speed. I take advantage of this by designing a new class based on the Nyigu. The Nyigu 2 has twice the speed and three times the computing power.
All available forces are diverted to Aurora because of a "Meteor Shower".
2390
The assistants working on the second database have cracked some of the code. We now have designs for Hand Lasers.
2391
Two signs of good news today. The second database has given us just what we needed - the ability to project an EMP field into space to deflect a missile barrage. The "Meteor Shower" has finally ended thanks to our glorious fleet!
2395
One more tech from our first database. This one for a powerful missile!
2398
The two Inferno worlds, Berel and Gienah, were colonized this year. Did I plan this? ...Yes... Yes, I did. I swear. It was a little unfortunate that a colonist was driven insane by walking around in what was basically Nchiyamoto. He was able to send me a message, shifted into some Ndege like thing and said he was some sort of alien. Afterwords, everyone called him Kichwanibele. The official report is that he walked off into the last remaining lava field and was never seen again.
2399
Another product from the first database: Personal shielding devices. As far as I can tell, we are on par with the Waseebongo on soldier technology. Now all we need is superior numbers to win.
2405
Both of the active databases have given up some more of their secrets. A better Alloy for our armor, codenamed Duralloy (Did the Master of Computers and Electronics have something to do with it's naming?) and even better rockets, Hyper X.
These new 'innovations' have me bring to the people of my empire a new ship: the Mkingzi class. It's a small ship with Nuclear Missiles. It is intended to be a quick and easy way for any colony to setup a defense against "meteor showers."
It's getting harder to quiet the rumors floating around, such as "Aliens bombed my house!" and "My brother wasn't killed in a training accident. He was killed by aliens!". I have only so much money and assassins.
2410
The new third database has given up it's first secret: an extra parsec of range for our ships.
2413
And the third database has done it again! This time those hackers have managed to get their hands on a more efficient factory. Of course, better factories means less workers in said factories, but that just means we can just build more factories!
2416
And the tech keeps rolling in. Stronger force fields for our ships, thanks to the Waseebongo!
2418
Specialized intra-system thrusters from the Vichwanibele and a better guidance computer from the Walikata!
2419
One more from the Vichwanibele - more precise techniques to thaw a Tundra planet.
2426
The ability to reduce factory emissions by 60% comes from our most favorite "Meteor showers".
2427
More tech. Even cheaper versions of factories and another parsec for our ship's range. I'm pretty sure that hacker has an entire legion of illegitimate offspring helping him now.
2429
I have decided to end this annoying little war with the Waseebongo in my own special way. First, I'll send spies to take out the missile bases on Rayden. Then I'll start riots on Mentar and maybe even Proxima. If I'm feeling generous, I'll let them keep Proxima.
2430
With an easy success be destroying a missile base on Rayden, I design a new fighter to take up the cause. Even though it still has the gatling laser, the Nyigu 3 can out maneuver and out pace anything in the stars. This is complemented by the most uptodate targeting and evasion computer known to the galaxy.
2437
I wish our sensors were better. In a quick strokes of two keys, I have stolen a faster ship engine and destroyed - not one, but two - missile bases from two aliens and then had them blame each other. One can't pay for this kind of entertainment. This would be like Ndugukubwa if they could kill one another.
2441
This is it. The last two bases have fallen at Rayden. I am sending all the Nyigu 2s and 3s and 55 thousand 'scientists' to "convert the long dead world". If all is said and done correctly, then it shall be dead - if only for a moment.
2443
And the takeover is successful. When the troops landed, they found heavy resistance, but our numbers saved the day. While rummaging through the local research facilities, the troops found all the Waseebongo notes on keeping a Dead world running. Thought these are merely refinements on what we already 'know', they do come in handy none the less.
Of course, all the general public knows is that our 'scientists' found more startling results when they could actually field test their theories on awakening Dead worlds.
2444
And the third database reveals more secrets, this time in the form of a powerful "Ion Cannon". This thing is twice as strong as a regular Laser.
With this, I design a new fighter craft. This has a 3 Parsecs/year engine and the new Ion Cannon, but is still the same as the previous Nyigu 3's. I name this class the Nge in honor of it's powerful sting.
2448
One of the Hacker's kids must have been sloppy yesterday. The Vichwanibele have declared war. Too bad, I was hoping to target the Walikata first. Maybe if I say that the rogue hacker has been brought to trial in a few years, their leader will call a cease fire long enough for me to carve into the Walikata.
2452
*Meklar discover a derelict*
2454
A kidege told me how to wrap an sheild around my planets. For that, I'll attack them after the kata after all.
2460
I was taking notes when the giant "Meteor storm" that came from Paranar hit L. Nobilis. I have decide to design a Huge ship, the likes of which have never been seen before. A few weeks into the final draft, the third database has given up a powerful new device: the Automated Repair Controls. As long as someone is still alive to man the helm, these nanomachines would patch holes and solder circuits. This had me redo the entire schematic, just to fit it in, but it was well worth it.
To the general public, it was an enormous mining barge. I even christened the class Mchimvi. So what if those 13 Heavy Ion Cannons weren't high powered, long range vaporizing lasers and those two cargo bays just happen to be filled with a payload of Nuclear Missiles? So what if it's Anti-Asteroid Point Defense System was actually EMP projectors and the Radiation Shields were merely Laser Dampeners?
It's just too bad it will take so long for them to be crafted. Maybe I'll find some better upgrades in the mean time.
2464
Oh the Walikata are going to get it now! They slipped a decent sized fleet into Stalaz and wiped out the defenders. Matters have become worse, though, as the Hacking clan (as they can now be called) has found the way seed toxic spores into a planet in their database. I plan to show them the full terror of such a weapon!
I have started a devious little project called Balaayamfishi. Event though I won't be building the ships just yet, this has the plans to bring an unending tide of plague to the galaxy.
2472
Well, this was unexpected. I caused a revolt on Mentar, alright! Unfortunately, I was hoping for more rioting and anarchy, not a leader change.
2483
Finally, an alien not leaked to the press! So these are the Surachuma I've seen references to.
2484
Oh kinyeshi! There's an actual emergency and it's not a lie to cover up an alien attack! The Aurora's star will of Nova in 8 years if the scientists there can't find a way to break down part of it's core to age regress the star itself.
2487
And now the Walikata have declared war on me. I respond by sending the newly built Mchimvi and nearly all of my Nge to Paranar. This may not end well, but it will cut off some of their attack raids on my core planets.
2490
Aurora is doomed. I have started shuttling the upper class off, with a long waiting list for the lower class. In lighter news, Paranar is expected to fall once our 'special settlers' land.
2492
*Soil Enricment from Alkari, Stole all techs from the Mrrshan at Paranar*
2495
And it seems that the Waseebongo knew of the Walikata toxic spores, and have created an antitoxin. This will prove valuable to our cause.
2498
It is with a heavy heart that I inform the Empire that the colony on Paranar and the ships orbiting it was destroyed in a freak solar flare. The entire planet was burned to a crisp.
2500
The aliens have signed a Death Pact against our empire. I think now would be the time to reveal the aliens to my people. I just need to think of a way to demonize them...
Official Press Conference:
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We have found the source of these "Freak Solar Flares". As unbelievable as this may sound, we are not alone in the universe. We have found evidence of a malicious hegemony of Extraterrestrial beings. On Paranar and Rayden, we have found remnants of past sapient beings who opposed them. They were reduced to dust. But it seems that the old ones on Paranar had almost found a way to counteract the Hegemony disrupted the unnatural flares. We have been able to finish what they started.
As far as we can tell, they are being lead by emotionless cyborg abominations. We will release more information on these monsters as the news comes to us. We believe that there are three other aliens in this Hegemony.
We shall not fall to them. This I promise you. They shall feel they terror that they themselves created. Long live the Darlok Empire!
For our defense, I have drafted designs for a Small orbital defence turret armed with a single but devastating new laser called the Megabolt Cannon. Swarms of these shall be the first defense of all of our worlds. The design team have nicknamed them the Nyuki class.
And that is not all, my people. To take the fight to them, I have drawn up plans for a battle centric version of the Nge: the Nge Mark 2. This will also be carrying a single Megabolt canon, as well as two payloads of Mark X Missiles. And soon, we will find the way to militarized our Mchimvi class barges.
Nothing will stand in our way. No one drop of drool from their greedy, slobbering maws will touch our soils. No child shall be whisked away and into their clutches. They shall all fall before us as bones.
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2501
Do not fear, my people! Even in these horrible times, the government is still working to give you a better quality of life. We have finished a special project that will allows us to construct giant Archologies to allow 30 million people to live and work in them. The age of expansion shall begin.
2504
As much as I would like to blame this on the Hegemony, a single, yet devastating comet is headed for the planet Berel. It will take 12 years to hit, but I will send all available ships to stop it from getting close.
2516
A parade shall be held in the honor of the captain of the DES Koloe - a Mchimvi class barge. He and the late captain of the DES Sepetu devised a plan to take out the heavily armed Huge warships by utilizing the enemy's far slower speed. He engaged the enemy in a pseudo-orbit far outside either's range in an effort to distract the enemy from the missile bases on Berel. He took the enemies by surprised by randomly cutting into fray and blasting a ship and then speeding out of there. A single ships was able to survive the onslaught of three heavily armed warships by the grace of our Auto-repair technology. The Captain of the Sepetu gave his life to stop a suicide charge onto the planet Berel by on of the enemy warships last year.
The Captain shall be awarded with the honor of piloting the first Kifu class warship as soon as it is produced.
2523
Sad news. Our prospectors on L. Nobilis have failed. There are no more Heavy metals within the entire planet.
2546
Dire news. The Berel colony and warships at it were all destroyed by a large task force of alien warships. We will morn their lose.
2549
And with this victory on Proxima, we have dealt a heavy blow to an alien race of the Hegemony. Our troops report that these beings are small, six limbed, bipeds with an oversized head. Mostly yellow in color. The common call tag for these things became Waseebongo, for their oversized heads.
But not only have we crippled them, we've taken most all of their heinous weapons designs. As the saying goes "Use their own strength against them!"
2555
Even with the valiant defense of Proxima, the colony was lost. We have least dealt them some blow by depriving them of this as a colony for a few years.
In a move that might be denounced as desperate, the Emperor has designed Small Automated Seek and Destroy drones in an effort to deprived the Hegemony of local colonies. They are codenamed Buibui, though there is little resemblance to the eight legged arthropod.
*Cue the rest of the Two Hundred Year War. Most of it dealt with me scorching every nearby planet, thus distracting the AI with tasty planets to colonize and ignore me. The only major event was when the Space Amoeba took out Stalaz. Did you know that the Amoeba heals itself A LOT?
That was actually a good thing in the long run, as such an Ultra Poor planet was a pain to try to build up in the early stages of the war. And it left on less planet for the AI to get a hold on me.
Aliens in order of their extinction: Mrrshans, Alkari, and Psilons.
Also, may, many worlds traded hands, and many co-invasions or attempted re-pops by the AI also helped in keeping enemy production to a minimal. There were even times that I swear the Final War Alliances broke down when a planet would change hands when I wasn't looking and had no need to change hands.*
2792
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And so, my people, I have promised you that the Evil Hegemony will be vanquished. And so it has. The last Surachuma Stronghold, what might have even been their homeworld, fell to our forces last year. We cover the entire galaxy with only a few irradiated worlds left untouched. In time, they shall be ours, but not now. Now we shall celebrate!
Every man, woman, and child is safe. We may now beat our blasters into plows, as the saying goes. The Eternal Peace we once dreamed of shall come to pass.
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Sorry I stopped with a detailed report during the war, but halfway through, it was either a frantic trade around of ships to defend against an incursion or just a slow but steady mop up. There were also many small attacks early in the game, but I stopped recording them because both I and the Emperor would just be recycling "Meteor Shower" and "Space Radiation".
I must say that this was a very challenging game. I enjoyed it a lot! To be honest, I was not expecting to win this, and the Council Loss in 2500, I was almost sure of it.
Also, how is it that a Galaxy Wide Empire only produces twice as much as a single Meklar homeworld?!?
2300
There is only one star within range of our bulky colony ship, so I send it there. The Imperial Scientists claim that they have such wonderful ideas that will revolutionize the way we this about whatever-the-heck-they-are-masters-in-the-field-of. Since they never actually tell me what it is that they have ideas for, I'll believe it when I see it. Still, they ask for funding, so I give them funding - at the expense of the growth of our world.
2301
The Master of Computers and Electronics finally comes to me with his great idea... the ability to scan objects nearly twice as far from our planets as what we can now and to create miniature one so we can have our ships themselves act as our eyes and ears in space. He announces the name of the project is an manner fit for a used gyrocopter salesman: The Deep Space Scanner! When I ask him why not fully double the range of the planetary scanners, he shifts into a Tumbili and - to add to his distain - curls it's prehinsile tail into a facsimile of an obscene gesture and skitters out of the room.
A Pweza suffles in. I immediately recognize it as being the Master of Construction and Design by the way it is clumsily trying to keep hold of a pile of papers in each of its tentacles. It crawls towards me, wheezing and clacking its beak in an attempt to talk and flashing papers at me in an erratic manner. This goes on for a full minute until I loudly clear my throat. He quickly shifts into his normal form and apologizes profusely. "The long and short of it, sir, is that I have theorized a way to reduce the output of pollution of our factories and thus reduce the cost of cleaning up after them." he murmurs. "So what do you call this theory?" "I... er... that is... I never really gave it a name. I've just been calling it Reduced Industrial Waste to 80%." With a sigh, I clear him for funding and he spends a good two minutes trying to gather his research. I still don't understand how a person can pull off being so amusing and so boring at the same time.
*Deflecter Shield II*
*Improved Eco Restoration by The Master of Planetology and Environmental Studies*
*Hydrogen Fuel Cells [Range 4] by the Master of Propultion and Scouting*
*Gatling Laser by the Master of Weapons*
2303
The colony ship sent to the nearest planet has reported in. The single habitable planet has rivers crisscrossing its island contents, making it a vastly fertile planet. Unfortunately, it has little in the way of heavy metals. Well then, call up Ma' and Pa', we've got ourselves a new farm.
2304
Gienah, the new planet we have found, is the opposite of Stalaz. Heavy metals practically float to the surface of each lava flow, but obviously, it's not a nice place to live. The other star I sent a scout to had some beautiful asteroid belts, but no planets.
2305
There are now more than half the projected number of people our great homeworld can possibly hold, so I start sending off the poorest of the poor to Stalaz. Kills two Ndege with one stone. The poor get jobs and less poor on our homeworld.
2306
I have a great idea! You know how worthless the poor are, being - well - poor? Well, let's have a mass education for all those who live on Stalaz. Their little tinkerings in elementary Calculus should provide some help to the homeworld scientists, right?
2308
I have run out of poor to send to Stalaz.
2311
The scout ship has reached Beta Ceti. What a world. As fertile as Stalaz, but with normal amounts of heavy metals. This just brightened up my day. I started to change the spending around so that we could start producing a new colony ship, but all of the Masters glared at me. This sparked a long debate over what to do about the prospect of what to do about finding new planets.
2312
After nearly a year of debating, I have finally gotten them to concede to letting me send out a new type of Scout ship, the Mwangaliaji class ship (different only in that it is cheaper than the previous model), but only one a year. Well, it's better than nothing.
2317
Five years later, there are enough Mwangaliaji scout ships to check out all the local star systems. I just happen to forget to change the funding and it merely slips my mind that I left the plans for a new, cheaper, class Kijiji colony ship on the desk of the president of the largest shipbuilding corporation. I am so forgetful some days...
2319
The reports that an alien ship was sighted at Paranar are completely false. I repeat, there are no such things as alien Walipaka! By the way, Paranar is a decent planet to live on, if we can make our way there.
2322
*discovery of Range 4 and Master going on vacation on Stalaz* With that Master gone, I divert the funds to the others
I receive word that two completely different worlds have been discovered on the same day. Aurora is a dismal little desert planet, but it might have some interesting spices growing on it or something. Let's just hope there are no Mnyoochanga there. Kulthos is covered in a vast ocean, but has a dissying number of islands! I'll bet the Master of Propultion and Scouting wishes she could have waited a few months to swim with the Samaki on this planet!
With this new found range, I send the Scout over Gienah to search the new planet that just came into reach.
2324
The Mwangaliaji sent to the coreward blue star has yet to report in. Something is wrong. He's either crashed into something or found a planet of Amazons.
Also, the poor on Stalaz have been educated enough. Now on to what all the poor hope to achieve in life: building and working in factories! Of course, the top 4% will be kept in science studies as they actually all qualified to be college students. Who would have thought?
2327
Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but there are no such things as starcraft being piloted by four-armed Waseebongo, especially in the vicinity of Aurora!
2328
The Master of Computers and Electronics struts into my office with a smug look on his face. He announces, with a disgusting amount of pomp and flair, that his project - The Deep Space Scanner 3000 - is complete. He even shifts into a Sokwe and pounds his chest in triump. Annoyed by this presentation, I remind him on how small the reproductive organ of Masokwe really are. The look on his face when he left brightened up my whole day.
A few months later, the scout sent to the north has reported back. Maretta is a vast jungle planet with few metal ore steams. Maretta - seriously, who comes up with such alien sounding names?
2331
*Force Field II and another retiree for Stalaz*
2338
*Reduced 80%*With a loud clatter, a Swala bursts into my office. After I calm it down, I coax the Master of Construction and Design to resume his normal form. He apologizes about the mess, but that he was so exited to tell me that his project was completed. I was surprised to see a smile cross his face. The little bore was actually proud of himself. A well, I amuse myself with the thought of trapping him in my personal garden as a Kuchakulo watching him chitter and run around. At least his life wouldn't change one bit. But I send him on his way.
2342
*Improved Eco Restoration*
2343
*Gatling laser and a missing mountain*
Now that I have no more Masters to deal with, I assign the budget to what ever I want - however I want. First and foremost, I split L. Nobilis's spending between factories and building that Kijiji. Fat lot of good it did to let that paperwork oversight trickle money into it. Those researchers on Stalaz are sent to be CEOs of the new factories. I expect a production boom from all this.
2345
I have a nightmare about a golden robot telling me that everyone else was making more than me. I'm still not sure what that is supposed to mean.
2353
After so long, I can finally say that a true Darlok flag has been planted on Beta Ceti. In the past 50 years, the quality of living has gone up slightly. I choose 20 million of the poorest Darloks on L. Nobilis and 15 million on Stalaz to populate this beautiful new world. *first to 3 worlds! Odd.*
2357
A couple of years after the news of the first colonists arriving at Beta Ceti, I also get the news that the green star to the west has a flipped around environment. Metals galore, but nothing will grow there. Such a waste, too.
2359
The scout orbiting Rayden has been recalled after reporting unknown ships were heading his way. Something must be wrong with the sensors.
2360
In an odd way to celebrate the founding of the first colony on Kulthos, a well renowned hacker simultaneously overwrote all broadband channels and shifts into what is being called a Mseebongo and 'greets' the Darlok Empire. He has been taken into police custody.
Later that week, I personally interview him and approach him about hacking into an undisclosed foreign database. If he accepts, he will be placed in a secret government facility with all the technology he could ever want. He finally accepts when I play my trump card of letting him have a weekly conjugal visit with the actress of his choice. A more secure paperwork misfiling appropriates the needed funds.
I also start building missile bases at L. Nobilis. Can't be too careful about those deadly meteor showers! In an unrelated note, I also design Medium sized starcraft to test out the practicality of the Gatling Lasers. I name this class after the Nyigu because of how much they can sting.
2365
After five long years, the hacker has finally paid off. Must have been my threat to end his conjugal privileges. He is now tasked with decrypting each part of the database.
2367
Aurora has been settled. No Mnyoochanga in sight, right Bob? ...Bob? Hey, Bob, where you go?
2369
*Psilons declare war!* With Beta Ceti such a popular place, I fear that a meteor strike might kill off some of my fine citizens. Let the missile bases be made!
2371
The sensors on the old Scouts must be defective. There was no ship landing on Maretta and it did not disgorge thousands of Walikata. I have decommissioned both of them.
2372
The largest fleet of Nyigu has been sent to Kulthos for a live fire exercise.
2373
The hacker has been taking his time, but he finally completely decoded the first entry in the planetology section of the database. It has information on how to encourage favorable weather patterns on Barren planets.
2375
The live fire exercise was a complete success! They scared off--- err... I mean completely destroyed all target asteroids. A celebration shall be held in their honor!
2378
That poor, poor soul in room 152. He's gone crazy, he has. Lost his mind in the middle of space. Must have lost some family in that meteor strike on Kulthos. First, he sent word that an alien ship landed on Paranar. Then he said that a flood of Walikata covered the landing site. Then he send a video of himself shifted into a Mwalikata and said that all Darloks should submit to their rule. I do hope he passes quietly in the gas chamber. At least he'll quiet down.
2380
The hacker has struck again. This time with information pertaining to rapidly cooling an Inferno planet's surface. We can also use some of this information to deal with Dead planets, like Rayden. I have sent a large number of 'Specially Trained Scientists' to bring Rayden to our fold and an honor guard of Nyigu to keep all those pesky meteors away.
I show the hacker a new database. He asks for assistants, which I give him a few. He has proven himself with this last find.
2381
And again, the hacker pays for himself. This time with a design for a better computer for our ship's targeting and evasion computer. Mark III, apparently.
2383
Official report:
Sad news from Rayden. The entire fleet of Honor Guard and their charges were incinerated by a freak Flare Burst from the star.
Unofficial report:
We are more than a match for their ships, but their missile bases will be a tougher nut to crack.
2384
Another new find from my little hacker group. Engines that propel the ship at twice the normal speed. I take advantage of this by designing a new class based on the Nyigu. The Nyigu 2 has twice the speed and three times the computing power.
All available forces are diverted to Aurora because of a "Meteor Shower".
2390
The assistants working on the second database have cracked some of the code. We now have designs for Hand Lasers.
2391
Two signs of good news today. The second database has given us just what we needed - the ability to project an EMP field into space to deflect a missile barrage. The "Meteor Shower" has finally ended thanks to our glorious fleet!
2395
One more tech from our first database. This one for a powerful missile!
2398
The two Inferno worlds, Berel and Gienah, were colonized this year. Did I plan this? ...Yes... Yes, I did. I swear. It was a little unfortunate that a colonist was driven insane by walking around in what was basically Nchiyamoto. He was able to send me a message, shifted into some Ndege like thing and said he was some sort of alien. Afterwords, everyone called him Kichwanibele. The official report is that he walked off into the last remaining lava field and was never seen again.
2399
Another product from the first database: Personal shielding devices. As far as I can tell, we are on par with the Waseebongo on soldier technology. Now all we need is superior numbers to win.
2405
Both of the active databases have given up some more of their secrets. A better Alloy for our armor, codenamed Duralloy (Did the Master of Computers and Electronics have something to do with it's naming?) and even better rockets, Hyper X.
These new 'innovations' have me bring to the people of my empire a new ship: the Mkingzi class. It's a small ship with Nuclear Missiles. It is intended to be a quick and easy way for any colony to setup a defense against "meteor showers."
It's getting harder to quiet the rumors floating around, such as "Aliens bombed my house!" and "My brother wasn't killed in a training accident. He was killed by aliens!". I have only so much money and assassins.
2410
The new third database has given up it's first secret: an extra parsec of range for our ships.
2413
And the third database has done it again! This time those hackers have managed to get their hands on a more efficient factory. Of course, better factories means less workers in said factories, but that just means we can just build more factories!
2416
And the tech keeps rolling in. Stronger force fields for our ships, thanks to the Waseebongo!
2418
Specialized intra-system thrusters from the Vichwanibele and a better guidance computer from the Walikata!
2419
One more from the Vichwanibele - more precise techniques to thaw a Tundra planet.
2426
The ability to reduce factory emissions by 60% comes from our most favorite "Meteor showers".
2427
More tech. Even cheaper versions of factories and another parsec for our ship's range. I'm pretty sure that hacker has an entire legion of illegitimate offspring helping him now.
2429
I have decided to end this annoying little war with the Waseebongo in my own special way. First, I'll send spies to take out the missile bases on Rayden. Then I'll start riots on Mentar and maybe even Proxima. If I'm feeling generous, I'll let them keep Proxima.
2430
With an easy success be destroying a missile base on Rayden, I design a new fighter to take up the cause. Even though it still has the gatling laser, the Nyigu 3 can out maneuver and out pace anything in the stars. This is complemented by the most uptodate targeting and evasion computer known to the galaxy.
2437
I wish our sensors were better. In a quick strokes of two keys, I have stolen a faster ship engine and destroyed - not one, but two - missile bases from two aliens and then had them blame each other. One can't pay for this kind of entertainment. This would be like Ndugukubwa if they could kill one another.
2441
This is it. The last two bases have fallen at Rayden. I am sending all the Nyigu 2s and 3s and 55 thousand 'scientists' to "convert the long dead world". If all is said and done correctly, then it shall be dead - if only for a moment.
2443
And the takeover is successful. When the troops landed, they found heavy resistance, but our numbers saved the day. While rummaging through the local research facilities, the troops found all the Waseebongo notes on keeping a Dead world running. Thought these are merely refinements on what we already 'know', they do come in handy none the less.
Of course, all the general public knows is that our 'scientists' found more startling results when they could actually field test their theories on awakening Dead worlds.
2444
And the third database reveals more secrets, this time in the form of a powerful "Ion Cannon". This thing is twice as strong as a regular Laser.
With this, I design a new fighter craft. This has a 3 Parsecs/year engine and the new Ion Cannon, but is still the same as the previous Nyigu 3's. I name this class the Nge in honor of it's powerful sting.
2448
One of the Hacker's kids must have been sloppy yesterday. The Vichwanibele have declared war. Too bad, I was hoping to target the Walikata first. Maybe if I say that the rogue hacker has been brought to trial in a few years, their leader will call a cease fire long enough for me to carve into the Walikata.
2452
*Meklar discover a derelict*
2454
A kidege told me how to wrap an sheild around my planets. For that, I'll attack them after the kata after all.
2460
I was taking notes when the giant "Meteor storm" that came from Paranar hit L. Nobilis. I have decide to design a Huge ship, the likes of which have never been seen before. A few weeks into the final draft, the third database has given up a powerful new device: the Automated Repair Controls. As long as someone is still alive to man the helm, these nanomachines would patch holes and solder circuits. This had me redo the entire schematic, just to fit it in, but it was well worth it.
To the general public, it was an enormous mining barge. I even christened the class Mchimvi. So what if those 13 Heavy Ion Cannons weren't high powered, long range vaporizing lasers and those two cargo bays just happen to be filled with a payload of Nuclear Missiles? So what if it's Anti-Asteroid Point Defense System was actually EMP projectors and the Radiation Shields were merely Laser Dampeners?
It's just too bad it will take so long for them to be crafted. Maybe I'll find some better upgrades in the mean time.
2464
Oh the Walikata are going to get it now! They slipped a decent sized fleet into Stalaz and wiped out the defenders. Matters have become worse, though, as the Hacking clan (as they can now be called) has found the way seed toxic spores into a planet in their database. I plan to show them the full terror of such a weapon!
I have started a devious little project called Balaayamfishi. Event though I won't be building the ships just yet, this has the plans to bring an unending tide of plague to the galaxy.
2472
Well, this was unexpected. I caused a revolt on Mentar, alright! Unfortunately, I was hoping for more rioting and anarchy, not a leader change.
2483
Finally, an alien not leaked to the press! So these are the Surachuma I've seen references to.
2484
Oh kinyeshi! There's an actual emergency and it's not a lie to cover up an alien attack! The Aurora's star will of Nova in 8 years if the scientists there can't find a way to break down part of it's core to age regress the star itself.
2487
And now the Walikata have declared war on me. I respond by sending the newly built Mchimvi and nearly all of my Nge to Paranar. This may not end well, but it will cut off some of their attack raids on my core planets.
2490
Aurora is doomed. I have started shuttling the upper class off, with a long waiting list for the lower class. In lighter news, Paranar is expected to fall once our 'special settlers' land.
2492
*Soil Enricment from Alkari, Stole all techs from the Mrrshan at Paranar*
2495
And it seems that the Waseebongo knew of the Walikata toxic spores, and have created an antitoxin. This will prove valuable to our cause.
2498
It is with a heavy heart that I inform the Empire that the colony on Paranar and the ships orbiting it was destroyed in a freak solar flare. The entire planet was burned to a crisp.
2500
The aliens have signed a Death Pact against our empire. I think now would be the time to reveal the aliens to my people. I just need to think of a way to demonize them...
Official Press Conference:
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We have found the source of these "Freak Solar Flares". As unbelievable as this may sound, we are not alone in the universe. We have found evidence of a malicious hegemony of Extraterrestrial beings. On Paranar and Rayden, we have found remnants of past sapient beings who opposed them. They were reduced to dust. But it seems that the old ones on Paranar had almost found a way to counteract the Hegemony disrupted the unnatural flares. We have been able to finish what they started.
As far as we can tell, they are being lead by emotionless cyborg abominations. We will release more information on these monsters as the news comes to us. We believe that there are three other aliens in this Hegemony.
We shall not fall to them. This I promise you. They shall feel they terror that they themselves created. Long live the Darlok Empire!
For our defense, I have drafted designs for a Small orbital defence turret armed with a single but devastating new laser called the Megabolt Cannon. Swarms of these shall be the first defense of all of our worlds. The design team have nicknamed them the Nyuki class.
And that is not all, my people. To take the fight to them, I have drawn up plans for a battle centric version of the Nge: the Nge Mark 2. This will also be carrying a single Megabolt canon, as well as two payloads of Mark X Missiles. And soon, we will find the way to militarized our Mchimvi class barges.
Nothing will stand in our way. No one drop of drool from their greedy, slobbering maws will touch our soils. No child shall be whisked away and into their clutches. They shall all fall before us as bones.
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2501
Do not fear, my people! Even in these horrible times, the government is still working to give you a better quality of life. We have finished a special project that will allows us to construct giant Archologies to allow 30 million people to live and work in them. The age of expansion shall begin.
2504
As much as I would like to blame this on the Hegemony, a single, yet devastating comet is headed for the planet Berel. It will take 12 years to hit, but I will send all available ships to stop it from getting close.
2516
A parade shall be held in the honor of the captain of the DES Koloe - a Mchimvi class barge. He and the late captain of the DES Sepetu devised a plan to take out the heavily armed Huge warships by utilizing the enemy's far slower speed. He engaged the enemy in a pseudo-orbit far outside either's range in an effort to distract the enemy from the missile bases on Berel. He took the enemies by surprised by randomly cutting into fray and blasting a ship and then speeding out of there. A single ships was able to survive the onslaught of three heavily armed warships by the grace of our Auto-repair technology. The Captain of the Sepetu gave his life to stop a suicide charge onto the planet Berel by on of the enemy warships last year.
The Captain shall be awarded with the honor of piloting the first Kifu class warship as soon as it is produced.
2523
Sad news. Our prospectors on L. Nobilis have failed. There are no more Heavy metals within the entire planet.
2546
Dire news. The Berel colony and warships at it were all destroyed by a large task force of alien warships. We will morn their lose.
2549
And with this victory on Proxima, we have dealt a heavy blow to an alien race of the Hegemony. Our troops report that these beings are small, six limbed, bipeds with an oversized head. Mostly yellow in color. The common call tag for these things became Waseebongo, for their oversized heads.
But not only have we crippled them, we've taken most all of their heinous weapons designs. As the saying goes "Use their own strength against them!"
2555
Even with the valiant defense of Proxima, the colony was lost. We have least dealt them some blow by depriving them of this as a colony for a few years.
In a move that might be denounced as desperate, the Emperor has designed Small Automated Seek and Destroy drones in an effort to deprived the Hegemony of local colonies. They are codenamed Buibui, though there is little resemblance to the eight legged arthropod.
*Cue the rest of the Two Hundred Year War. Most of it dealt with me scorching every nearby planet, thus distracting the AI with tasty planets to colonize and ignore me. The only major event was when the Space Amoeba took out Stalaz. Did you know that the Amoeba heals itself A LOT?
That was actually a good thing in the long run, as such an Ultra Poor planet was a pain to try to build up in the early stages of the war. And it left on less planet for the AI to get a hold on me.
Aliens in order of their extinction: Mrrshans, Alkari, and Psilons.
Also, may, many worlds traded hands, and many co-invasions or attempted re-pops by the AI also helped in keeping enemy production to a minimal. There were even times that I swear the Final War Alliances broke down when a planet would change hands when I wasn't looking and had no need to change hands.*
2792
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And so, my people, I have promised you that the Evil Hegemony will be vanquished. And so it has. The last Surachuma Stronghold, what might have even been their homeworld, fell to our forces last year. We cover the entire galaxy with only a few irradiated worlds left untouched. In time, they shall be ours, but not now. Now we shall celebrate!
Every man, woman, and child is safe. We may now beat our blasters into plows, as the saying goes. The Eternal Peace we once dreamed of shall come to pass.
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Sorry I stopped with a detailed report during the war, but halfway through, it was either a frantic trade around of ships to defend against an incursion or just a slow but steady mop up. There were also many small attacks early in the game, but I stopped recording them because both I and the Emperor would just be recycling "Meteor Shower" and "Space Radiation".
I must say that this was a very challenging game. I enjoyed it a lot! To be honest, I was not expecting to win this, and the Council Loss in 2500, I was almost sure of it.
Also, how is it that a Galaxy Wide Empire only produces twice as much as a single Meklar homeworld?!?
