Recently got back into the game - as it stands, this is the furthest I've gotten in many, many of my tries - and things are shaping up fairly nicely. I'm playing a passive game, having yet to experience the presumably most exciting part of Aurora - combat. Things won't stay this way forever though, as what appears to be
precursors and space locusts
plague a couple of the known systems, some of them quite strategic/mineral-rich.
Things are, as I said, steadily progressing - the recent founding of the Alpha Centauri colony, with its' milions-rich mineral deposits, will open way to further colonization. Gotta work on those Orbital Habitat-towing ships, 58km/s is shameful for a TN empire...
Most recent development is the discovery of a perfectly habitable world in the system of Gliese 555, right on the edge of the known universe; as I was idly checking out planet characteristics and atmospheric compositions, I took a double take...
... only to be dissapointed with the geosurvey results a few moments later. Had this been a rich planet, it would have given me an aim to drive towards in this area of space - seeing as my focus is currently to the 'south' of the Galactic Map - but perhaps the neighbouring systems will yield something interesting.
I realize this isn't the usual type of post that finds its way into this thread, but it truly has been a while since I played this game - and this time, I'm
hooked - but I wanted to share this occurrence; besides, I'm probably going to need ship design feedback soon, so might as well get active straight away.