[Puke]

a friend of mine used to have alot of luck making a treaty with a race, making sure he was a bit more powerful than it, and when relations warmed up he would just 'Demand' their colony tech. usually worked, that was on 1.19 though, and I never really tried it out.

------------------
"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)