hoof1
07-07-2003, 03:58 PM
My ithkul infestation spreads slowly throughout the galaxy. First the fish people, followed by the amphibians, and currently the machine people are being absorbed into the collective. My power ranking has been number one for about 100 turns now. I wonder who number two and number three are? All the border empires are rank 10 or higher. Slowly I have risen to an empire of 137 worlds with 2000 or so units of slaves/population under my control.
One of my frontier fortress systems has repelled wave after wave of enemy attacks. It has been about 30 ships a turn flung against the meat-grinder of my two-planet system, my missiles and fighters slicing up their ships like so many tasty pieces of Nommo. However, a new race has begun attacking my border world, a species of gasbags. This species is not like the gasbags I've been consuming elsewhere in my empire. These come with deadly Plasma Cannon and devastating Lightning Field Generators. My lowly Hellfire cannon short-range ships cannot compete with their LFG equipped ships up close and personal anymore. My border system buckled and almost fell under the weight of the attacks, as one devastating attack tore through my defenses and ransacked one of my fortress worlds. This leaves a gaping hole in my defences that was only filled with great difficulty and loss of precious Ithkul life.
Sure enough, contact is established with this new menace. The number two ranked empire is the source of these gasbag incursions. They have a mere 100 planets, but outtech me by five levels, and have twice my population! For the second time since initial expansion, I am fearful that my forces will not prevail. If this empire joins the others against me, we will be driven back to the core worlds. This cannot be allowed to pass.
Strangely, the relations seem to not be of initial fear and loathing between the two peoples. This species of gasbags have a mere -10 casius belli (how do you spell that?) towards us. Maybe I can make friends with them and stall the inevitable war before one of their many allies persuades them of the folly of that path. Then I can finish assimilating the weaker empires around me and with my renewed strength, enslave the gasbags for all eternity!
Moral: Just 'cause the game says you're #1 doesn't make it so :)
One of my frontier fortress systems has repelled wave after wave of enemy attacks. It has been about 30 ships a turn flung against the meat-grinder of my two-planet system, my missiles and fighters slicing up their ships like so many tasty pieces of Nommo. However, a new race has begun attacking my border world, a species of gasbags. This species is not like the gasbags I've been consuming elsewhere in my empire. These come with deadly Plasma Cannon and devastating Lightning Field Generators. My lowly Hellfire cannon short-range ships cannot compete with their LFG equipped ships up close and personal anymore. My border system buckled and almost fell under the weight of the attacks, as one devastating attack tore through my defenses and ransacked one of my fortress worlds. This leaves a gaping hole in my defences that was only filled with great difficulty and loss of precious Ithkul life.
Sure enough, contact is established with this new menace. The number two ranked empire is the source of these gasbag incursions. They have a mere 100 planets, but outtech me by five levels, and have twice my population! For the second time since initial expansion, I am fearful that my forces will not prevail. If this empire joins the others against me, we will be driven back to the core worlds. This cannot be allowed to pass.
Strangely, the relations seem to not be of initial fear and loathing between the two peoples. This species of gasbags have a mere -10 casius belli (how do you spell that?) towards us. Maybe I can make friends with them and stall the inevitable war before one of their many allies persuades them of the folly of that path. Then I can finish assimilating the weaker empires around me and with my renewed strength, enslave the gasbags for all eternity!
Moral: Just 'cause the game says you're #1 doesn't make it so :)