A tale of a struggling empire
 

It has been a struggle for territory from the very beginning.

I encountered other races in all of the adjoining systems, each having a homeworld (began with three).

One was the EEE. At this point the EEE have first place and I have second. The EEE are sharing a number of systems with my empire. We are in a military alliance. I am woiting for the right moment to knock them back a bit....

The reason I droped from 1st to 2nd place is that I was unable to expand outside of my home system b/c all of the surrounding systems were inhabited and b/c one of the races declared war on me before turn 10 and I have been struggling with that ever since.

Rough game for my first imte out... ... and I am throughly enjoying it.