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[mainiac]

You need to learn the meaning of diplomacy. You can't just make demand after demand and expect the other guy to always cave.

[Kebooo]

Let's not forget who made the first demand, it was you, demanding my freighters leave your space.

[Aqizzar]

Turn sent.


Admiral, set course for Rampart.  I shall see the Fleet serve a noble purpose, while there is still a Fleet to serve it.

[Margrave]

(Turn sent.)

War can be quite strange, Saladin thought quietly to himself.

In a Galaxy where silvery sleek warships prepared in orbit to do battle with a mysterious alien race an entire star system away, the planet below was embroiled in conflict that reflected ancient Urth history. al-Malik Infantry and rebel militia fought and died in trenches with bolt actions rifles, gas and antique artillery while these state of the art Leviathans of the stars calibrated their beams and bombs that could scorch every inch of the battleground if not for the likewise advanced laser defenses nestled in the rebel Capital, daring them to strike and disturb the almost ritualistic combat on the surface.

And such defenses. Who led these desperate insurgents to defy the will of the Empire? Humanity would be united, no matter how hard they made it to turn this mandate into truth.

I will see you writhe in the scorpion pits for this drawn out mess my enemy.

Saladin rubbed his temples. It was enough to drive a man to drink. More.

[mainiac]

Is there anything more annoying than mountainous jungle worlds? Engineers moving one hex at a time...ugh.

I found something even more annoying.  Trying to attack with a mixed stack on a jungle world.  Eventually I just gave up and went home.

Turn sent, btw.

[Il Palazzo]

Turn sent

The end of the millenium approaches, and the streets of Aragon run wild with crowds drunk on the apocalyptic prophecies. "The end is nigh" they cry, alternating between descents into most extreme debauchery, self-mortification, and cries for divine mercy.

As I watch my countless subjects from the balcony of my palace, in the dark crimson twilight of my homeworld's fading sun, I am behest by brooding melancholy, so conductive to dark introspection.

I think of parts of the Empire descending into the chaos of a civil war, refugees streaming from the affected worlds en masse, even as others brandish their swords and their faith, demanding alien blood to flow and cleanse the crusaders' souls of any taint they might ensconce.
I think of honour and tradition trampled under the ceramsteel-clad feet of vengeance and greed. Of knives in the dark, and the kind of mind that orders them to strike.
Dread, anxiety, and suspicion took root in everyone's mind, and appear to be here to stay.

These are times of madness, times of woe. Authority holds little power over crazed minds, and heresy sprouts among the faithful like so many fires that consumed the ancient Rome. Not even the Church's Inquisitors can quell the unrest, their presence merely adding fuel to the raging inferno.

But, just as Rome was rebuilt from the ashes, so will the order return - eventually. The strength of Man lies in his ability to temper himself in the harshest of predicaments, and emerge so much stronger for that.

Or so is my hope.

[Kebooo]

Is there anything more annoying than mountainous jungle worlds? Engineers moving one hex at a time...ugh.

I found something even more annoying.  Trying to attack with a mixed stack on a jungle world.  Eventually I just gave up and went home.

Turn sent, btw.

I decided that what annoys me most is when I accidentally am moving along (one hex at a time), a ruins appears, but I still click it anyway...and then I just released a stack of enemy units somewhere I'm not prepared to fight them. I'm just glad it wasn't symbiots.

[mainiac]

When I activate ruins the enemies never move from them.  Is it different for you?

[Kebooo]

I could have swore I've seen planes fly out from the ruins (which is what I activated), and symbiots too. Maybe I've conjured up this scary image of them that isn't actually true.

[Il Palazzo]

I could have swore I've seen planes fly out from the ruins (which is what I activated), and symbiots too. Maybe I've conjured up this scary image of them that isn't actually true.

Hmmm, I've got the same childhood memories embedded deep into my psyche.
Now that I think of it, maybe it was happening only when some of them retreated after combat and I failed to capture them?
Another possibility, which would reconcile the two conflicting narratives, would be that only those garrisons without emplaced guns move - unless mainiac is sure he saw them stay put as well.

[mainiac]

Well symbiots have no emplaced guns and I've seent hem stay put.

[mainiac]

bump?

[Aqizzar]

I was about to say that you don't need to remind me, I never forget about the game, I just don't get around to devoting the time to it every night.

But then I checked my email, and it turns out I don't actually have the next turn's save.  Go figure.

[Kebooo]

For once it's actually me. I'll have the turn out sometime tonight, I've been really busy with work related stuff.

[Kebooo]

Turn sent.