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Strategia_In_Ultima said:
One question: why is this game called "Return to Hell"? What was the (original) backstory?
Will there come a gamestory thread on this?
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The original game was also called Return to Hell. One day, along time ago, I decided I wanted to create a PBW game that was different than most. So I thought about it some and came up with the idea of making the game full tech, 5K racial points, max everything else. Each player would start in their own 'cluster' of systems that was not connected to any of the other clusters where the other players resided.
There were not many rules to follow except that you could not 'turtle' in your cluster. You had to leave at least one system available for someone to warp in with a warp opener to attack or make peace. The game got so big eventually due to players staying in their clusters as long as they could that PBW could no longer run it.
This game has now reached that point but we are determained to continue on.
I created RTH2 because I missed the first game and wanted to try it again. Here is the back story I created for RTH2 to tie it in with the first one:
Millennia ago your race was once the center of the galaxy. You spent decades building your empire within the privacy of your own cluster of star systems that the Ancient Ones had placed you in. The Ancient Ones had left great texts that spoke of other races in the universe that were doing just as you were; building a great empire. These texts also spoke of a day when all races taking a great journey out of their clusters.
Your race had finally decided that this was the time period in which to embark on this quest of universal conquest. You designed and built great technology that enabled you to create artificial warp gates that would allow you to take this journey and link your clusters wither other clusters.
Little did you realize that these other races were ready for this day. They too had built massive empires within their clusters. Many races made first contact and many wars had broken loose. There were few treaties made during this time, no one wanted to become unprepared for the inevitable.
For decades wars raged on until one day two prominent races stood out above all others. They had grown to such a point that they could not be stopped. Over the next few centuries they nearly exterminated the other races that once ruled in their respective clusters.
Once it reached this point the Ancient Ones decided it was time to intervene. They stopped the wars in time to spare a few of many of the races. Some of the races once known, however, were destroyed and would never rise again. The Ancient Ones decided it was time to start again, this time to see if peace would be possible.
They restored the universe to what it once was before the wars broke out. Despite the best efforts by the two races that dominated the universe at this time the Ancient Ones overcame them and plundered much of their empires. Never did these think their empires could fall so quickly.
The Ancient Ones returned you to another cluster and limited you to just a handful of planets. You kept much of your technological data but lost much more. In the case of the few empires that lost everything the Ancient Ones brought in other races from different universes' to replace these ones. They knew that one day the universe would return to its deplorable state of war and conquest… yes, they knew one day it would Return to Hell!
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