Surprising turns of events in my test game.
Diplomacy for turns 50/51:
Mi-Go (me, 2nd/3rd) - Rage, None (despite my repeatedly killing lone scouts and unescorted colony ships); Terran, MA; Drushocka, TA/War (without any provocation at all)
Earth Alliance (6th) - Norak, NA; Drushocka, MA
Norak (5th) - EA, NA; Terran, None (First Contact on 50)
Rage (1st) - Mi-Go, None; Terran, War
Terran (3rd/2nd) - Mi-Go, MA; Norak, None (FC); Rage, War
Klingon (effectively 7th) - destroyed by EA on turn 50
Drushocka (4th) - Mi-Go, War; EA, MA
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Cap'n Q
My first SE IV mod!
Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"