Re: Game Stories
From Chancellor Naiduin's address at the First Colony Commemoration Ceremony, 2415.2, Kaffalheim Shipyard:
15 years ago today, the original Ikaalinen colony ship was launched from this shipyard, beginning a new era of colonization and exploration. Expanding from our homeworld since that time, the Tictsin Society now encompasses 52 colonies in 25 systems, with a total population of 8687M sentients, three more colony ships en route, and a fourth under construction. We have formed partnerships with three alien races, and trade alliances with three more. The senseless war started by the genocidal Xi-Chung over 12.5 years ago has finally turned to our advantage; we have liberated the Curyok system and seized Lynx V, where our valiant fleets continue to contain Xi-Chung aggression, destroying three more light cruisers in the most recent engagement. Our intelligence service estimates that the Xi-Chung have been reduced to 60% of their peak fleet strength, yet Queen Kazitkra still will not even consider ending the hostilities. We believe that they expect their larger population and resource base to prevail over our now superior technology. I wish I could predict when the Xi-Chung will realize the folly of this brutal conflict, but I suspect that the logic of peace is beyond their comprehension.
[For the first time, my Tictsin have pulled into 1st place at 458.9K, just 10.1K ahead of the Xi-Chung. If the trend continues long enough to trigger MEE, I'll be in a world of trouble; 18 of those colonies are in systems claimed by my current allies. The population figure includes 101M Xi-Chung among three colonies. I thought the game was going to end at turn 150, but apparently the victory conditions don't work the way I thought they did.
The fighting in the Lynx system has been particularly ugly. I captured a second world; they glassed it and recolonized; I captured it again; they glassed it again. I had to scrap a facility to make space to build a shipyard on Lynx V to speed up the repairs; I've got two fleets in orbit: one with all the badly damaged ships and the repair tender, and all the functional combat ships in the other.]
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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
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Cap'n Q
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
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