[God Emperor]

Turn 77;
Am just about to resume the offensive against the Piundon - things have been quiet for Last 7 turns as I had to refuel my fleet and establish a new forward resupply colony.

Terrans are now dead - found their Last world and bLasted it out of existance.

Am still appeasing the Klingons and Colonials. Klingons have claims over three of my systems but have not taken any action so far.

Rage broke the Trade Alliance Last turn (Angry) without any provocation so I wiped out all three colonies of his in his border system (to get rid of any refuelling bases).
Have deployed 100 mines at the warp point to his (ex) border system just in case. have 10 Lt Cruisers and 4 Cruisers deployed against him. Will be interesting so see how it goes (he has PBB V's and I am way off of getting Phased Shields. I do have Null Space Weapon I's though coming through. May re-equip my entire battlefleet).

Mineral reserves are now down to 80,000 and I am researching Minerals III to offset a looming mineral problem.

Player position Ratings;
1st Klingons 34 planets, 68 ships
2nd Me!! 50 planets, 43 ships
3rd Romulans 41 planets, 56 ships
4th Borg 36 planets, 51 ships
5th Rage 24 planets, 45 ships
6th Darloks 23 planets, 56 ships

8th Abbidon 12 planets, 33 ships
9th Shadows 21 planets, 37 ships

Klingons have grabbed 1st spot.

Diplomacy
Me At war with Rage and Piundon
Borg At war with Norak, Shadows, Darloks and Abbidon!!!
Romulans At war with Darloks and Norak
Klingons at war with Narn and Piundon
Abbidon At war with Borg
Darloks at war with Borg and Romulans
Rage At war with Me and Pyrochette
Shadows At war with Borg and Darloks

Comments
Borg Lt Cruisers are now being equipped with neural interfaces and repair systems, but not Shields!!. Sounds like a space problem.
Borg are at war with most of their neighbours and this is slowing their progress. They also appear to have just about colonised all available worlds.

Darloks are expanding well and have the two weakest races nearby. Ships are of good quality - destroyers with Stealth Armour I, missile IV's and contra terrene engines. Still have four carriers in action.
Lots of No Storage Messages are back again.
Darloks are running short on Radioactives and now have one forced Refining colony.

Klingons are continuing to do well. Ships are very heavily designed - they now have Battlecruisers which are equipped with 2xNSP III's, 3xshield IV, contra terrene engines, 4xarmour III, 6xpoint defence IV, 1x Solar Sail II and 1xSolar Collector III.
Narn are under assault by the Klingon 2nd and 4th fleets (17 lt cruisers) and are in a lot of trouble. Klingons havent built any Intelligence compounds yet.


Rage still looking very good and their Lt cruisers are packing Shield V's, PPB V's and PD V's. They have a good spread of planet types. Rage also have Intelligence and are generating more points than the Darloks!!
Their war against the Pyrochette appears to be going well.
No sign of the earlier No Storage Messages.

Romulans have dropped back to 3rd place with Klingons looking tougher now. Their Lt Cruisers possess DUC IV's or Missile IV's, Shield IV's, contra terrene engines, point defence IV's, 5xArmour III's and Solar Collector III's.
Romulan 1st fleet (8 ships) is giving the Norak a hard time.

Shadows appear to have stopped growing. Havent built any Intelligence centres yet as they havent colonised any new worlds.
Ship designs are good with Lt Cruisers packing Shield IV's, contra terrene engines, point defence IV's, Solar Collector III's and parasite or globule III's. The Shadows are under some military pressure from the Borg but seem to have better ships in the area. They are in Partnership with the Abbidon who are at war with the Borg too.

Abbidon are doing well. They dont have a lot of planets or ships but have very advanced tech (psychic weapons V, shields V, contra terrene engines, Cruisers - discovered this turn).
They are friendly with most races (Partnership with Norak and Shadows) and are only at war with the Borg.