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Old March 13th, 2004, 09:11 PM
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Default Re: Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

Thanks for the answer Slynky, but I am afraid my warp openers are somehow unable to protect my worlds. My main concern is currently "how to pull out a nice offensive against Primitive to calm these rioters and to delay these fleets" rather than "how to protect these useless worlds busy rioting". While speaking of this game, here comes another game report, and likely the Last.

KOTH Primitive versus Alneyan, turn 75.

"As seen in Sapience, your best source of accurate information certified by the Arcadian Consulate:

While it is true that the League suffered from a few drawbacks, her plans backfiring and her armada being defeated thanks to treachery and perfidy, we should not have such a pessimistic outlook on the current situation. Never our values will be forsaken by our people, lest our society should crumble at the hands of these hordes.

Nevertheless, we should not put us behind the common masquerade in which the League stands free from all the threats she faces, but rather acknowledge these hard truths to face the foes bent on destroying our very civilization. If there were any doubt left about the motivation of our enemies, it has been cleared by the slaughter of one of our colony worlds, where several dozen thousand settlers were killed by orbital bombardments. Although our ships did manage to save most of the civilian population, often facing resolute enemy opposition, the casualties are inadmissible, and in the memory of all who fell to these Hordes, we shall strive to avenge them.

However, the rumours of other such battles have yet to be proven, and should dismissed as being insidious to the League. No other civilian life has been taken on the front, as our ships extracted all our people from the endangered worlds. Another deceitful lie dares questioning our beloved Consul, who has been supposedly departing to another galaxy in his private shuttle. Obviously, this is a blatant deception, as the Consul is, at the moment of the writing, devising a military plan along with the Admirals of the Fleet.

While speaking of the military situation, we have the pleasure of announcing the destruction of several key military installations of the Primitive Horde, which were qualified as being "decivise victories" by the High Command of the Second Battlegroup. "They are not invincible, and if we have the willpower, our ships can crush them, an hammer striking down their warships until there is nothing left of them but stellar dust," commented a cheerful Admiral Conceils after the recent victories.

Following these engagements, reinforcements have been sent to the borders to assist our forces in liberating the Primitive worlds from their heinous grasp. Once this deployment is achieved, two hundred warships will enforce our presence at our boundaries, and will swiftly strike home. Not only will we head for their obscure lair, but we do expect this offensive to deter them from ever threating the Arcadia League, as any sapient being would question the wisdom of fighting when one's own worlds are in jeopardy.

We bear no ill-will towards the civilians who happen to be amid the Primitive berserkers, and will endeavour to avoid any civilian casualty when attacking their systems. On the contrary, our forces stand ready to assist their population if needed be. *A few photos display Arcadian troops doing repairs to a collapsed building and handing food to civilians. But the vigilant reader may realize these pictures were taken several years ago in an Arcadian League*

While our state-of-the-art ships able to alter the essence of this universe protect our denizens by collapsing the "holes" used by the enemy forces to strike at our worlds, danger lurks at home as enemy operatives enticed our people into rebelling. Coercing our citizens into revolting, these traitorous spies managed to trigger riotings on several worlds, and strikes put an halt to all economical activity on many of our colonies. It is the duty of all responsible Arcadians not to take part in these disturbances, and any individual seen provoking such distractions should be mentioned to the nearest civil servant, representative for the Consulate.

Lastly, we do encourage all responsible and dutiful citizens to fight for the League in this hour of need. This is our finest hour, and those who aid Arcadia shall not be forgotten once our foes are placated. For her, we pledge to fight with all our might until no dagger lays in our back, biding its time to strike the League down. If even under such circumstances, you await for brighter times to come, when will you give this token of your gratitude to Arcadia? And once this war is over, how will you behave when paying your homages to these defenders, when meeting these brave souls who stood up to the Hordes, when speaking to your children about this war?"

Propaganda aside, here is the current situation: Half my worlds are rioting, Primitive has crushed a few of my fleets, and I managed to take a few of his worlds. (While he was capturing or glassing several planets a turn) So it is basically my Last stand against the Primitive Ones, as my research production is down to 50,000 research points a turn. (It should be above 200,000, if there were no riots. I gather you have figured out why I don't exactly like this situation? )
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