System evacuation

[ZeroAdunn]

I have played a number of games where a inhabited systems star was going to explode, some of the more memorable ones:

I once played a game of SEIII where the map wound up being a squid shaped galaxy, with one system in the center and about six arms going off on each side. No steller manip so the system was quite valuable as anyone who had it pretty much controlled the universe. Well, I had taken the system, and as this was the only assaultable system in my empire I had almost all of my forces there gaurding the warp points. Not to mention my primary shipyards. Then boom, by by fleet. (did they give warnings in SEIII? I remember I had no idea it was gowing to blow before it happened)


However, my most memorable was when my home system was going to blow, in a proportions game! This was early proportions, where the home planet was even more valuable then it is in current, and boy, was that going to be a huge loss. (at more than 75% of my empires production) what made it even worse was, I was just barely getting by with my current resource production. Well, I flooded the system with transports (this was proportions so I had like 20-30 of them) emptied out all my carries, refitted hordes of fighting ships, and began running hordes of ships in and out of the system. I left behind like half my population, and lost about 10 ships and three starbases in the explosion. I survived (it was a game against the AI) but just barely. The wars in next few years were fairly devestating.