[President_Elect_Shang]

"Still, I managed to beat the little swine at the Battle of Deneb."

I just did a quick cut and paste rather than a quote, I am glad you did beat him, sounds to me that the “swine” was using a mix of AD tech with his standerd tech.

Memories…

The Tal-Re Republic was the leader of the Star Alliance. Don’t get me wrong we had a very low Racial Militancy but once you hit us we never gave up, and we were advanced. I remember how I brought my exploration ship up to the unexplored WP and made the jump. Nerves pounding as they always do, entering the unknown. We found “them” on the other side; my peaceful ways caused me to sit still as he brought his weapons on-line faking communication attempts with me. That started the war, and this war would end up crushing two of the four Star Alliance members. Just me and my soon-to-be partner who could only be accessed by a single WP in my home system; he did loose his few colonies and the Tal-Re Republic was on the brink of collapse. In the end it was something like what happened with the Arachnids, he (I think his name was Tom) was so convinced of impending victory that he stretched his lines to long and thin. The battle of ? (can’t remember name now) broke his battle line and (by coincidence) at the same time my partner finally agreed to commit his few remaining reserves. The outdated reserves with new construction from my yards and his allowed us to gain the initiative. AND WE HELD IT!