Space Empires Haiku.
 

Haiku is a form of poetry with strict rules of construction. It does not need to rhyme, but each must be 17 syllables, five in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haiku can be written about any subject.

Beware of warp points.
Not all are safe for travel.
They can be quite strange.

When seeking planets,
we have learned a truth sublime.
"Minerals are best!"

Of your growth we say,
it is quite remarkable.
It does astonish!

Minerals you need?
We know a source of many.
In asteroids near.

Give it a try. It can be fun and it's a good brain teaser.

Geo

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Gee, why do those look familiar... http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

I'll try to come up with some later.

Phoenix-D

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Maybe I could come up with a new race. Call them the Haikuroni. Rewrite the whole speech.txt in haiku. That would be a challenge. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Then if I could come up with an oragami shipset...

Anyway, I thought of a new one driving home...

Play PBEM.
It is much easier now,
thanks to Admiral

hehehe. http://seiv.pbw.cc

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Our regents believe
That your treaty proposal
Has proven worthy.

(Treaty acceptance)

Your expansion must
Be checked by all. Consider
Us to be at war.

(Mega-evil)

Eric
(Some two-bit author
Who thinks he can write haiku
But isn't too good)

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I never could be
Despite my large research tree
As happy as Eee.

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Space Empires IV Play by Web

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Evil aliens
Now they shall suck hard vacuum
Enraged Monkey King!

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Had to get in on this one...

From chill space above
floods brimming plasma downward.
A colony dies.

They're not so loyal,
your brave space-faring pilots.
Crew insurrection.

Your coloniser
for my worthless two escorts.
Unequal exchange?

Now scrap metal are
your fierce shield generators.
Phased polaron Beam.

TCP/IP
is awaited by many
but I play by mail.

Suicide Junkie
with eye patch and parrot made
Pirates and Nomads.

With ewok-like tricks,
a meek primitive species
defends 'gainst your troops.

A thousand warships
miss your cloaked star destroyer.
You sneaky bastard.

I can't understand
your political logic
my murderous friend.

------------------
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

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I don't write Haiku
Writing is too hard for me
The public is spared

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The infinite void,
is but a very small sqaure:
Tactical combat.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

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An icy wind sweeps forth.
Grains of sand shift so quickly --
Billions are lost.


The heat of battle:
For victors, eternal spring;
The rest melt away.


Young wyrms all look small,
But one will eat the heavens.
Spring: the eggs hatch now.


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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

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Enemy fleet comes
In space all screams are silent
Death anticipates

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A lone defender,
Warfleets closing in quickly,
Shields don't fail me now.

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You all are awesome. This has gotten beter response that I expected.

A weary man works.
His fingers sore, his eyes red.
"Aaron! Where's the patch?!?"


http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

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S'more:

A lad amidst the snow
Towards the night sky he looks --
A star flares, then fades.


Many flowers bloom.
Life is carried far and wide;
To stay put, means death.


An infinite sea,
Peacefully empty, at first --
But strife blossoms soon.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

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Ummm,
Here's one from my most recient SEIV experience:

Bleary-eyed failure,
Fleets smashed, ships lost, worlds burning
Never play while drunk.

There's a lesson to be learned there kiddies...

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I'm on a roll...

Treacherous ally,
fall before my fleets of death.
We welcome your doom.

Eyes like ping pong balls,
yellow CO2 breathers:
Who else but the Phong?

Though you fought bravely,
my victory is assured.
Surrender or perish.

High AI bonus:
A moron with a big stick
is still a moron.

(That Last one is a nicked from someone else's post a few months back)

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

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Saw the ones u guys wrote and thought id give it a shot...

ive been playing for hours,
one more turn, just one more turn,
damn i love this game!


he sends his turn file,
and the wait begins once more,
when will it arrive?

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Messages from pals,
with their words dripping hatred,
forgot about spies.

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The neighbours arrive,
homeworlds burn, fleets are destroyed,
peace they said, liars

Revenge the motive,
we target the enemy,
till death do us part

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Home star, ancient font
once life drank, now death blossoms
Bye, pesky Norak

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A field of mines drifts
Silently waiting in space
Enemy fleet dies.

Angry Rage empire
Years of war, we take revenge
Sun destroyer blazes.


[This message has been edited by jc173 (edited 08 June 2001).]

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Apologies for the long post, but i felt like telling a story...

The C D ROM loads,
Game starts, the excitement mounts,
The empire is born

The galaxy calls,
Near and far the stars glitter,
The people answer

Great vessels are built,
Immense energies are tamed,
The void calls us on

New planets are found,
The empire expands anew,
Great cities are built

New cultures we meet,
All strange, weird or distinguished,
Some friends, some not so

Violent threats emerge,
Soon new techs are developed,
Strength for strength we fight

Many battles lost,
Courageously we struggle,
The people suffer

Planets burn for days,
Our cities lost to vengeance,
We vow to fight on

Our fleets pushed back now,
The homeworld laid bare to all,
To soon they will come

To the Last we stay,
Making them fight for each step,
Our numbers soon drop

In orbit they sit,
Belching gobs of sinful fire,
Erasing the past

Only memories,
Our people long forgotten,
Bones lying in the sun

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monkeys in treetops
howl with derisive laughter
at your misfortune

(accompanying screenshot edited for security reasons)

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monkeys are ready
Alphamoo and Phong ready
all waiting for Wraith

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A new game ventured
delight fades to slow despair
caused by poor AI

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A new ship revealed
I call it "Peals of Thunder"
Woe to all my foes.

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The message I dread:
My ships destroyed, my plans dashed,
"Minefield encountered!"

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I wish I had time
to play this game as I like
but work intervenes.

The stars, they call me!
The galaxy must be mine!
No. Go earn money.

Ah, that's how life is.
One is both an emperor
and an employee. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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My Homeworld is lost
All too quick! Ne'er trade defense
For infrasturcture.

Their ships come in waves,
Our fleets useless! We await
The End Of All Days.

Quikngruvn, writing from experience!

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I would dedicate this one, but I dont think I need to:

toung twisting traitors
push us into a corner
blame the blood on us

words wont stay our wrath
strong fleets protect our holdings
citizens wont fear

navy brings our will
to the stubborn aliens
peace at our swordtip

------------------
"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

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(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

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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?

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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On a withered branch,
One world clings without hope,
No plans for the Spring.
Jackals await in orbit
Who will cry for the blossoms?

[I hope you don't mind a tanka in among the haiku.]

-Tsukku-

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Leaping for the point of warp
the magic swirls and whorls
a new space!
The joyful mines awake.

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The soaring majesty of fat ships rise
The pitiful involuntary colonist cries.
The glory of stellar empire beams
In space no one can hear your screams

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The Dreadnoughts rumbling forth
To pierce the skies with
Burning glory
Pretty colors exploding.

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Joy! Again I see,
small steps toward perfection:
Patch history List

True economics.
Growth is slow and yet precious,
In Proportions Mod

Loud Godzilla roar
Heralds a monster attack,
In Devnullmod Gold

Insults are traded,
The currency of friendship,
In the Phong's Head Pub.

A troop ship descends,
Turmoil upon the surface,
and a new king reigns.

Troop- won colonies
Diminish my enemy
and lend strenth to me.

Frustrating to find,
Your intel surpasses mine.
My secrets reveal'd.

Vikings declare War:
Your lands, your ships, your women,
shall belong to us.

[ 03 May 2002: Message edited by: dogscoff ]</p>

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Bumping up the thread
by posting and deleting
Please cease doing this

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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over two years now
space empires and forum
is still going strong

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was a general
re-org left me a major
must post more haiku

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Enemy unstoppable
Burning cities galore
Invading troops knocking on the door
Stairway to Heaven

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Their links entice you,
promises of fun and games.
Pop! The dark ones bite.

Later in the day,
the popups gone, forgotten.
Lesson not learned. Pop!

Frustration growing,
Control of your browser gone.
Curses! Vampires suck.