(Family surprised me with tickets home to, in turn, surprise my grandmother for mother's day. I realize it's been a while. I'm writing a short update right now and am including the save game. I'm out of commission for the rest of this week, but if one of you with DW want's to play a couple of updates as regent that's cool!)
Update #2: Pirates and Intragalactic Mother's Day
Name: Cornelius Beardius Scoopzen Von Landshut
Imperial Title: Emperor of Humanity, King of Earth & Nispes Minor 3, and 67th Baron Munchën
"Greetings, Lords and Ladies of the Imperial Parliament. Despite a break down in our empire wide communications network several great advances have been made in the name of our glorious empire! Alien... adventurers contacted the office of the Emperor personally to extend newfound information, for a price.
We gladly accepted...
I believe this world is colonizable, but for the moment, we have little information on it. We will scout it posthaste. (OOC: Im pretty sure colonization range is 3 sectors) In other news we are plagued by large beasts in several sectors...
Our escorts do what they can and are, on the whole, effective, though at great cost. Perhaps it is time to commission a new destroyer battle group to combat this threat? Our scouts have also encountered an abandoned ship, we investigated and boarded it...
Though we knew little of its systems at first glance, it turned out to be a colony ship... is living cargo strangely missing, an autopilot error? It could be used to colonize our new colony-candidate? After all, colony ships are a massive strain on our economy. Finally, our scouts encountered yet another oddity in the void...
An abandoned mining station in the Kanes System. Of course, this lies firmly within the realm of Lord Lodras. Congratulations, Lodras, Lordasia prospers. (OOC: I'll rename it for next update!) Indeed, all of the Empire seems to prosper. Things are, as they so, going too well perhaps. While we are safe now, truth be told, we are surrounded by pirates and smugglers. Even now, we suffer material shortages and swashbucklers of all shapes and sizes, alien and human approach us unwary. It is only a matter of time before they lose their complacency and demand from us more than credits."
The Keys to the Empire