Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

(LOL! I know who you are talking too. )

Following too close
Their ships did draw the first blood
Cries for peace unheard

Fire and death did rain
A peaceful colony dead
And still we forgive

Poorly drawn map lines
unreasonable demands
done deliberate?

We wish to have peace
We have shown this many times
but still the Hive roars

Concessions are made
Honest tries to keep the peace
But they are stubborn

Though peace is our goal
We will not lay down for them
"Bring it on, Foul Puke!"

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/tongue.gif

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

Combination Haiku and rhyming:


We demand an AI
That beats us every time;
Are we truly sane?

I have to ask why?
Is it not masochism?
Do we live for pain?

Should MM supply
Our self-destructive desire
For commercial gain?

A less noble guy
Profit his only motive
His course would be plain

The posters they cry
For endless complications
No one can attain

Modders galore try
To overcome hard code "flaws"
Ignoring poor Jane

SEIV-widow-nigh
With conversational needs
Your mind she must drain

OK, this has gotten REALLY bad. I'm outa here!

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Old ally enraged
Lashing out against all sides
Who has betrayed them?

------------------
Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

our consessions found
an avenue bringing peace
we spared their homeland

colony shall go
they will withdraw from our space
contact will now cease

new system scouted
they have designs on our space
renig on peace treaty

their colony stays
a military compound
that spies on our space

give up more planets
they demand of our people
never satisfied

never wanted peace
just breathing room to build up
their weakened navy

our Last hope for peace
one desperate concession
to protect our race

our mutual gain
does not interest aliens
war their only goal

accept our treaty
provoke conflict no longer
listen to reason

nothing that you have
is what we have desired
merely privacy

do not try patience
lest fire rain down from your sky
more ships will return

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

Wistfully he yearned
For the old days, when his tribe
Was alone in space.

He sent spaceships out
To explore, expand, exploit,
So the tribe would thrive.

His worldview was dashed
Upon seeing the strange ship--
Other tribes exist?

These people looked strange,
Breathed methane, not oxygen,
And smelled funny, too.

They spoke words of peace,
of trade and diplomacy,
cooperation.

He believed their words,
Forged an alliance with them,
Perhaps not so bad?

Till the day their fleet
Entered his homeworld's system
Hell-bent on conquest.

How could he have been
So gullible, and not have
Built up defenses?

In desperation
A fleet was built, but too green,
Too few, and too late.

Now he looks down on
The charred, smoking ruins of
His once-proud planet.

One recurring thought
Fills his mind: "Somehow, sometime,
Vengeance shall be mine!"

Quikngruvn

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

The fleet assembled
Waiting at the warp points edge
The foe awaits them

The enemy's there
Just out of sight, out of range
In numbers unknown

The enemy probes
They send ships in ones and twos
Testing our resolve

Now the order comes
Engines fire, ships spring to life
The portal opens

The fleet has gone now
Beyond the swirling blue door
What does their fate hold

The Emporer waits
He knows the battles over
Victory or not

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

Haiku to reflect the way I feel when the cats beat me at SEIVG (again!! - where the hell did they learn that tiered echelon maneuvre!!??)

My life has been like a bowl of rice pudding
Thick and creamy
And full of lumpy bits

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

One by one they come
One by one they come to die
Sometimes two by two

TDM save me
Save this game from poor AI
Thank you TDM

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

Brilliant ships flare forth
The end is come now, today
Wave after wave, no pity

Last System stand strong
A gift, death, for us, and you
Flare bright star, burn all

Wave after wave, no pity
Last stand, we fall, by own hand
Wave after wave, burn bright

Our end you bring now
Last breath flaring forth, die now
Your end we begin

Death shall we embrace
Today your fleets follow us
Tomorrow Others finish you

Yah. You know who this is for. Feel the burn of suicidal star destroyers! (I don't think he reads this forum, but its the thought that counts) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Space Empires Haiku.
 

Though we fall now, Doom for you
Temporal we see forward
Star flare fills the sky

Locked us away
Our only warp point closed
Star instability

Thirty turns only
Perish now in the burning
You will get yours soon


To the same person. His strategy got him killed this time. Cheers to a happy ending. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif