A War for the Stars

Erax · #1 August 5th, 2003, 02:26 AM

Admiral Wiers' private log, SGY 2405.6:

Our metal stockpiles are still on the rise, mostly due to incoming shipments from Loovria; it is a pity that we may have to share that system with the Alliance. Their Hephaestus-class colony ship sailed right through Aram and entered the former Yakrin colony system; it may soon land on an unclaimed world. We will have to wait and see what they do.

Fyrine II has left its orbit around Aram IV, with a reduced security regiment and a few million colonists aboard; I believe this will be enough to oversee the captured Yakrin worlds in Loovria.

Captain Veren's Fleet has arrived at the hyperconduit taken by the fleeing Yakrin colony ship. Soon we will capture them and put an end to the Yakrin threat. At the other end of our small Sector, Seeker II has arrived at our colony on Klozar VI and is currently waiting to be resupplied.

There are no great threats to us, for now. We must take this chance to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 August 5th, 2003, 08:16 AM

and yaay! yet more story.

The FryeR K · #3 August 6th, 2003, 06:28 AM

so good need more plz

Hunkpapa · #4 August 6th, 2003, 05:21 PM

Please give us more.

BadAxe · #5 August 6th, 2003, 08:15 PM

narf, this is for you, as we all wait with 'bated breath.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

Great story, Erax. Thanks.

Erax · #6 August 6th, 2003, 08:50 PM

Thanks for the praise guys. It took me some time to get up to speed again on the story game, but now I know where I'm going with it. When I get home later today I intend to advance it a few turns, then get one more entry done.

Erax · #7 August 7th, 2003, 03:54 AM

Admiral Wiers' private log, SGY 2405.7:

Our research teams made several important breakthroughs this tenth. We can now mount anti-fighter lasers on our ships and shields on our fighters. We have a new model of shield for our ships which is twice as efficient as the first prototype, as well as improved Tibanna gas storage techniques. But the best news is that we may now fit our ships with high-pressure implosion reactors; these reactors use interstellar hydrogen as an auxiliary fuel source, greatly extending the range of a ship. Two of them would be enough to give any of our current ship designs near-unlimited range.

Research on anti-fighter lasers and ship-sized laser cannons will be a priority this tenth.

On another note, Nova XIII has launched from the Sector capital. She will pick up colonists on Gesaril V, then go on to colonize Prazhi V, a tiny fully colonizable world. Nova XIV launched a few days later from Berlin III. Her mission is to colonize Loovria V, a small partially colonizable world, before the Alliance has a chance to claim it.

Seeker II, now fully resupplied, entered a new system we called Nez Peron; Captain Stran reports four partially coloniable planets and one airless moon in this system. He will take Seeker II through the nearest unexplored hyperconduit, then head towards HolLastin (which should connect to the unexplored system) and back to Klozar.

We finally have all the metals we need, and more. We should soon be entering a period of rapid expansion; right now we are over-extended, with too few colonies spread out across too many systems. We must remedy this situation before we find ourselves in another war.