Play Period 02
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Event 01
The Torians are losing...
It turns out that the Torians, the once mighty empire oppresing evil, had been at peace for far too long. Their enemies have since grown stong have, in turn, declared war on them. Even the Korx, who were not involved in the first war, have joined the fight.
Since I'm not currently involved, I'm free to collect the resources that the Torian enemies have so generously freed up. I can take my time to build up my military, and research advanced tech until I can expand my empire. Such is the way of those who do not align themselves to such foolish idealogy such as good and evil.
However, being neutral does not mean I'm indifferent. I am aware that the Drengin, Yor, and Korx will too try to destroy my empire, so it would be foolish of me to ignore the Torian crisis. My solution to the problem is to offer some of my ships to the Torians, in exchange for their technology. All of it.
However, the Torians appear to be doomed at this time. It may be productive for me to be ready to invade Toria should it fall to one of their enemies. In a weakened state, I would be fight off even the Drengin without too much difficulty.
I need to start preparing...
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Event 02
Although the Torains managed to make peace with several civs, including the Drengin, but the Yor managed to persist in their aggression until the Torians surrendered to them. Initially, I considered attacking the Yor before they managed to start using their new planets. However, I was able to buy Toria, get a significant boost to my influence, and at the same time, deprive the Yor of that advantage.
I set my sights on Drengi... Their current war with the Drath has left most of their ships on the front lines, away from their home... and even further from me...
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Event 03
After considering how to deal with the Drengin, I decided to use my superior research industry (and already maxed out miniturization) to create a ship that was effectively invunerable to the missle weapons that the Drengin were using.
Although I could of built better, the "Pst M-7 LP-37" was already plenty expensive. It took several thousand BC to upgrade just one of my older ships, let alone to build them from scratch. But such technicallities did not matter. My new ship had more than twice the missle defense than the Drenin ships had in terms of missle attack. Inaddition, the Drengin had not bothered to give their ships any defense, so I didn't need super powerful weapons to take down their ships.
It didn't take long. I was able to quickly conquor Drengi using their shock troops tech I managed to steal from one of their worlds left far from the rest of their empire. My overwhelming influence ability, even with low population levels of Drengi, had already encouraged one the Drengin planets to start revolting. It didn't take long for the rest to do the same as well.
I had placed one of my left of troop transports used to invade Drengi, placed it in orbit around Drengi along with one of my super anti Drengin ships. Out of Despiration, they tried to retake their world, only to fail against my overwhelming defense.
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Event 04
The Drengin knew that they were beat. Out of spite, they surrendered to the Drath. Such a move would show to be ineffective since most of their worlds were deep within my cultural influence. Most of their remaining worlds would in time, revolt to me.
Since the Drengin empire was little more than a mess of pirate ships to clean up, I started looking at the remaining civs. Both the Torains and Drengin were no more. The Drath, Korx, and the Yor still remained. I considered attacking the Yor, and making an alliance with the Drath since they weren't far behind, military speaking (as were the Korx), but the Drath relations with me were no longer close. Only the Torians, and the Drath had reached that point.
I however noticed that both the Drath and the Korx were using mass drivers, and the Yor were using lasers. I decided to prepare to attack the Drath and the Korx at the same time. The close proximity of their home worlds to each other might place a stronger stranglehold of culture to them, than what I did to the Drengin.
I started to research a new hull size, and armour to deal with them. In addition, since I managed to steal some missle tech from the Drengin, I figured I would change my choice of weapons in case my enemies tried to adapt to my weapons.
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--Overview--
I was probally running around with the most influence and most of the galactic resources at this point. I managed to buy some tech that boosted my research, including some new research structures. They were cheaper to maintain, and quicker to build, than anything I could research myself, and yet, they were just as productive.
Since I had already planed to design completely new ships, and had already had a impressive military, and had recently collected many galactic resources that needed development, I switched my attack ship production to constructors. I kept building up transports for later.
