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39. You call your mommy on the phone and she tells you not to take that %&^# from some %*^$ing no good ($*#sucking aliens and says you should go to war with them.

40. Your Empire name is "The Galactic Empire" and you've just met a group called "Rebel Alliance"

41. Yur un Ork

42. Yur un Ork

43. You just met an ork and hate that they mentioned themselves twice.

44. Your people are getting restless so you draft a few thousand figuring if they die you don't have to deal with their whining anymore.

45. Your dearest closest ally blows up a star system with 150 of your warships and 8 regiments of your troops in it in order to destroy 30 enemy ships and a few colonies.

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46. The first message you receive from a alien race is "How are you gentlemen!!! All your base are belong to us!!"

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47. You have a larger navy than your nearest neighbour.
48. You have a smaller navy than your nearest neighbour.

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49. You forget to turn on "AI should make no changes to Empire during Simultaneous Games" under Empire options, or you forgot to select "None" AI when creating your race.

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50) You get tired of waiting for the larger stronger empires to get around to dealing with your small geographically challenged empire. So you send your fleet to bite them on the ankle.

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51. You nearest neighbor accidently analyeses his entire battle fleet.

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Nobody would be that stupid... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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52. When someone says to you in response to #51. "Nobody would be that stupid." - but you know you are.

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53. You realise you're in a book...And the writer is David Drake.

54. Even worse - The co-writer is S.M. Stirling.

(Personally, I think if any of their poor characters ever met them...Well, it wouldn't be pretty.)

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55. Your death ray has been successfully tested
56. Your death ray has been successfully tested on your neighbors most populated planet.
57. You just placed a "We Come In Peace" bumper sticker on all of your warships.
58. You have nothing better to do.
59. God told you that you are God.
60. You want to get away from the wife for a while.