[Ragnarok]

Asmala, please move me up a level. Fire has surrendered to me (turn 15!) and I have the victory.

For anyone who is curious it was an interesting game.
The settings were:
No Intel
No Ancient Race
No events
Large spiral arm
100,000 starting resources
Good home planet value
10 starting planets evenly spread
Low tech
5000 racial points.

We ended up meeting by turn 4 or so and so I started right away with building war ships. I built up before doing anything and we established a few borders and kept running into each other in different systems all over the place with our exploring colony ships. Eventually I build a fleet capable of sweeping 40 mines and so I took the adventure of going into one of his home systems to find less mines then that on his warp points and his small colonies. I didn't attack his homeworlds thinking he had more mines and more defenses then my fleet could handle but it turns out he did not. I had 2 fleets that were about to take action along with the first fleet in attacking Fire. In total I had over 75 war ships with the 3 fleets and Fire in turn hardly had any.

Fire had me worried has he had stealth armor before I could get scanners to see his ships but that advantage wasn't exploited enough to hurt me.

But all in all it was a good game.