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Alright puny humans! Let's get t his party started! We're going to have the easyiest setting, a large galaxy full of victims, average age and pre warp tech levels. Also, we're going to turn that tactical combat ON because we're not pussies that want to run from fights! We want to witness our victims' terror! We will also be leaving the Antarans ON so that we can slaughter all sentients in their deminsion as well!

 

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Today, I rise to be "queen" of the Klackons! They are a hive of ant people that totally kick ass!

 

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The name? TIGGER!

 

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And clearly, we MUST be RED! The color of the blood of my victims!

 

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

 

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While Kholdan is a nice name and all, I decree that it be renamed to Catnip!

 

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This is our little world. It holds up to 16 million ant people, this is apparently "large" but I don't believe it. That other gray thing over there, is another planet. It's a barren piece of crap that is of no use to us in the short term.

 

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On the surface of the planet, we can look into all the different things. First up: Morale. Since we're a hive civilization, we have no need of morale! Neener neener!

 

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To the left of that we have in decending order: Finances, Food, Industry, and Research.

 

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The first of these that we're going to play with: Research! We must get more techs if we are ever to leave our home system. Just going to that barren rock decades from now isn't going to cut it!

 

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And a few months later: PAYDIRT! We get the freighters which will allow us to ship around food an colonists.

 

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Also, the nuclear bomb and the nuclear drive. Basic tech, but we're getting there!

 

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Next, we go to research chemistry. This is another basic tech and it'll get us 4 new items!

 

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While we're waiting on the research, we get an offer for this guy to join us. 10% just isn't a high enough bonus to be worth it so we reject him.

 

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Extended fuel tanks! YES! This should allow us to make some scouts to check out the neighborhood. We also get the nuclear missile which probably isn't that great.

 

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Also required for space travel: Fuel cells and titanium armor!

 

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With that out of the way, we go for the techs to build basic transport ships to take our people to the stars!

 

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Now to use that new basic tech. We are going to make some basic scout ships to send to nearby stars in search of habitable planets.

 

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We are going to make 2 of these then go back to building "housing", which puts production into makin' babies!

 

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About a year later, we get the results of our research. We get the colony ship. This is something that our mission would be IMPOSSIBLE without. It allows us to transport colonists to new planets and carries everything needed to start a new colony. Also in this research is the outpost ship. Pretty sure that's like a colony ship without the people. Probably useful as a relay in case we're surrounded by uninhabitable planets.

 

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And yes, we also have the transport! This will send our warrior drones to other planets to slaughter lesser lifeforms!

 

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And not having a clue what to do next: Fighter Bays.

 

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Time to send out our first scout!

 

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When we arrive, we find a stranded alien guy that we help out and he swears allegience to the Klackon Empire!

 

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As for the system, it's pretty useless. No wonder he wanted to leave!

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Next!

 

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Our new ship comes online! With our other ship only 2 days out from its system as well, they should arrive at the same time!

 

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Awww %@$%!

 

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Greetings Mr. Space Mutant Thing...

 

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Before our scout can flee the system, some energy crap flashes through the system and blows the ship to pieces.

 

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Our last transmissions from the stricken vessel detail the contents of the system: In the Rayden system we have a huge Gaia and a huge Ocean planet. This is a prime system for our workers to tame in the name of the Empire!

 

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Our other scout doesn't meet such a fate. It however, doesn't find much of anything!

 

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Hopefully we can find something in the next system!

 

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Awesome..I guess. Not that I have a clue how that is going to work...

 

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Next up for research: Laser stuff!

 

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Our scout find another useless system! We REALLY have to do something about that space hydra!

 

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New techs! We finally have some pew pews!

 

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And some scanner thing that only works for 1 parsec...

 

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With that out of the way, let's go for Biospheres!

 

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Building this on a planet lets us have +2 population there!

 

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Next we're going to go for some computers. Maybe one of these damned branches has something to let us colonize more planets!

 

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And here we are putting that new tech to work!

 

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Hrm, interesting! This is a 25% boost to our targeting without having to add anything to a ship!

 

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Holy shit! We HAVE to get that tech! This should jack us way up!

 

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And so will this guy! He'll add 7 research just on his own. PLUS he'll make everyone in the lab with him 15% more effective!

 

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That...was about 15 before we got him!

 

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We have it and we want to build it NOW!

 

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And no knowing what to go for next we eeny meeny miny moe and pick Planetary Missile Base!

 

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In 4 turns...we're going to kick so much ass on the science front!

 

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Whoooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Meer days later, our crack team of researchers unveils plants for a ground battery of defensive missiles!

 

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Time to get something more substantial than those puny lasers! That space mutant can die in a fire!

 

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OOooooooo! He's doubled!

 

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This peons, is the weapon that will conquer the stars in the name of the Empire!

 

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We will also go for this space academy thing to make any warships we build better!

 

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Awesome! We got this guy with "galactic lore" whatever that means! Let's hire him and see what it does!

 

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Holy...shit.....He just told us all about everything!

 

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Ok, that space monster...We're going to make ourselves some destroyers with fusion beams and send them in to take care of our little problem. I'm sure 3 of them will handle this problem!

 

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Excellent! This is going to give us 2 free levels for new crews!

 

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And survival pods, just for the hell of it because I have no clue what any of this stuff is!

 

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And right after we got that guy to tell us about every system in the galaxy, our scout arrives in Tyr. There's an arid planet here. Not the best, but it's the only thing to colony until we get rid of the space mutant!

 

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With our fleet assembled, we break orbit and steam for Rayden. Death to the space mutant!

 

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Bring it bitch!

 

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Aww %^%Q#! Time to consult the lore saints!

 

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We learn of mysterious creatures that inhabit interstellar space. They like to feed on the best planets and stuff. This is bad, and we GREATLY underestimated this creature! To get rid of this thing we're going to have to use a massive fleet, probably 10-15 frigates. This will allow this creature to target individual ships one at a time while we simply swarm it..

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Apparently you can build on any planet type from the very beginning. You just take more and more penalties as the planets get more hostile. Those barren worlds we started surrounded by? Well we can build there. We cannot however farm on them. So it will be up to freighters to save the day, ferrying in food and colonists from more productive colonies such as Homeworld! With luck, we should be able to make them into prime production colonies so we can save the homeworld for research and make the most of that Psilon science leader we have there!
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The lore saints also revealed that we can colonize that barren world in the system with us. We're going to build a colony base on the homeworld and launch it toward that planet. Afterward, we we build freighters to ship them food!

 

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This is apparently something to keep leaders assigned to ships alive if they lose their ship. Handy if we get some of those guys!

 

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To follow up we pursue the tech for space ports, but only 2 turns after, we get a breakthrough that lets us get the tech super early!

 

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Yes! Build thermonukes to spread death to the enemies of the Empire!

 

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Barren, yeah!

 

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As you can see, barren worlds can't farm. Maybe we can change that later, idk.

 

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We got the boom booms to go with our pew pews!

 

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Next we go for the ion drive to get our ships traveling at Warp 4!

 

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Now that we have our colony on the barren world set up, we start out with the spaceport for money to pay for everything, and the biosphere to get the population over 4! After that? Everything else!

 

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A couple of years later we get our colony ship built. Even though our homeworld is decent and our species has production bonuses, it still takes forever! We're going to send this ship to Tempium.

 

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And while it's in transit we get the Warp 4 tech!

 

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Next: Tritanium Armor!

 

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Our ship enters the system. We pick out the best planet and set'er down. We claim this world, Silencer, in the name of the Klackon Empire!

 

 

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And as we erect the radio transmitter to phone home and tell them everything is ok..We meet the neighbors! THe Meklar and the Sakkra...and they seem to be hostile!

 

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Ok, false alarm. Guess the Meklar at least were bluffing! We sign a trade treat, a research treaty and a NAP.

 

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And they try to get our Spaceport tech...I think not!

 

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With the Sakkra, we are only able to get a trade treaty before they decide not to talk to us.

 

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Oooo, Tundra! This is better than those Barren planets we've come across!

 

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Also, there's a wormhole here! It goes all the way across known space!

 

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WAY over there, we find 4 decent planets that can be used...eventually. We don't need to have those all the way over there without a practical way to defend them.

 

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With that explored, we turn around and travel back through the wormhole to Pollux.

 

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It's only double, but it's better than nothing!

 

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Next we go for the Tachyon Scanner. This should give out sensors better range so we can see any incoming alien craft.

 

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After getting back to Pollux, we set our sights east! This is an artifact planet, and we get a nice new tech from it!

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Since our main colony has so much population, we're going to send excess to the other colonies.

 

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Nice! This has a base range of 3, and each large ship class can be detected even further!

 

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After this, we go for the most basic shields since it appears that we get they for free on ships and leaving them out doesn't save space so, might as well have the tech!

 

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Well...it's better than nothing!

 

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Oooooo! This is something we really really need! This will give us HUGE production boosts as the pollution that is eliminated is turned back into production!

 

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With the new shield tech, we're going to redesign the Claw and refit all the existing ships in the class.

 

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Also, we'll build more of them!

 

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A second colony ship comes off the line in Catnip System. We launch for Tyr, drop off the colony base and settlers, and name the new world after our Emperor!

 

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SWEET!

 

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Another pollution tech is also on the list, and it will pretty much eliminate it all!

 

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And this new building is just too good to wait on all those ships to finish! We want it and we want it now!

 

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See? That was like, 20 pollution!

 

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Awesome! That scientist has leveled up yet again!

 

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And we manage to get the Sakkra to sign those other two treaties we wanted!

 

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Soon after, we get an offer from this guy. He'll give a decent boost to production on Silencer's world.

 

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Crassis goes to Silencer, and Kimbuzzi goes to Tigger to boost food production.

 

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Wooo! We are now pretty much pollution free!

 

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Now we pursue cloning to boost our growth rates.

 

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Why yes, let's do that!

 

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And more neighbors! Silly Mrrshans! You have it backwards!

 

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Time to get that little Arid world stocked up!

 

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Yay!!

 

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Now we go for Security Stations to boost the effectiveness of marines on ships.

 

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Death to the Psilon Empire!

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The Klackon are Uncreative which means they can only get one tech randomly chosen in each of the 8 fields offered. I think Non-Creative races have about 3 things that they can pick 1 from in each field at any given time, and Creative get all 3 of them. The only exception are the very basic techs. If you noticed when I researched the colony ships and basic armor I was getting 3-4 techs at a time. Also there are some higher levels where there is only one tech at that level. This is to stop the game from being broken and forcing a Non-Creative or Uncreative race into missing something absolutely critical like the Colony Ship or Freighter.

 

So in summary:

 

Creative: Get the whole tech tree.

Non-Creative: Get to pick what they want, but only get about 1/3 of techs.

Uncreative: It's random chance. You're stuck with whatever 1/3 of techs you get.

 

Nothing that really breaks the game, the Uncreative still get the same tech levels that Creative get, they just don't have the options to build anything they want. The one major thing I noticed when I just went to look at the tech tree was that I missed out on Battle Pods and got Survival Pods instead. This means that I don't get a 50% bonus to ship size. Luckily, I have about double normal production to make up for this! But really, I should work on getting that tech, it's a HUGE boost. I'm sure some of my enemies have it..

 

Edit: Also, I apparently missed out on Titan class ships too...shit!

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After about 20 turns we finally have Scout Lab show up as being researched....Also, Security Stations!

 

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Now, we're going to improve our weapons so we can hopefully deal with that damned space monster.

 

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In the Silencer system, we launch off a Colony Base to the 4th planet.

 

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Meanwhile in the home system, we launch an expedition to the Pollux system. Our ship touches down on the Tundra planet on the outside of the system. THE WORMHOLE WILL BE MINE!

 

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After a dozen turns of power building, our fleet of 9 destroyers moves on that damned space creature. Prepare to die!

 

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DAMMIT! We barely scratched that thing. It's got 3 super guns and each one is big enough to take out a destroyer in one shot. Guess we'd better wait on that new weapon tech and just use frigates because we can have twice as many and destroyers are getting oneshotted anyway!

 

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Ohhhh Yeeeah! Much better than our previous guns.

 

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And we can put two of these bastards on a frigate!

 

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And each of our best production worlds can easily make 1 per turn!

 

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Hrm, maybe this will help us out!

 

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YES! That's one of those techs that we must have! One of those awesome worlds with the space monster is heavy gravity and we need this there!

 

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Ok, about 18 of these things. Let's roll!

 

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You gonna die now!

 

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We close to point blank range and open up on the hydra. Very quickly we munch through its hide, take out some of the weapons and immobilize it. 13 ship explosions later, victory is ours!

 

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Yes, pay me tribute, and I will allow you to live, slaves!

 

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And just in time, we get this awesome tech!

 

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Now we are going to leverage our already impressive science output with Supercomputers!

 

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The Meklar come to trade techs! They give us a 3x armor tech for one that adds 50% beam defense or something. SCORE!

 

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Now we give the Psilons some cheap bombs that they should have, being Creavtive and all, for something awesome that we missed out on because we can't learn everything! SCORE!

 

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Yay! Let's get this on homeworld, pronto!

 

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Now for some microbiology.

 

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Woooo! Colonize! Colonizzzze! And build EVERYTHING ON IT!

 

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And get that one too, even though it's not quite as good!

 

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Greetings Troll ambassador!

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We get some medical tech to boost our population growth rate by 25%. Next up in that same research path: Terraforming! This will let use get all those 4 pop barren worlds up to something nice. Something like, Terran, with 10-20 pop!

 

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And we trade the Sakkra some lvl 1 shields for something of a much higher level!

 

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Ok, Terraforming. This is a very good tech. Only catch is: It costs more each time you use it on the same planet. This means that taking a planet from Toxic to Terran can be VERY expensive, so we'll use it sparingly. The good news is, those barren worlds only take 2 uses (750 production) to get up to Terran!

 

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And again in Biology: Weather Control!

 

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Looks like we got ourselves an invasion commander!

 

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Well, at least until we decide to enslave your race..

 

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This is now our top world. 80 industry is really allowing it to build at an insane rate!

 

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And another boost to our agricultural planets!

 

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And again, we persue biology! This time we go for the tech to boost the intellence of our people!

 

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With Rayden rocketing along, it's time to move that Psilon guy over there and make the absolute most of that world. The purple fuzzy will go to the Homeworld to set up a massive farming operation. By the time Kirsus reaches Rayden, that baby should be finished and ready to go on full research!

 

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Well, well, well. Looks like we've turned that little desert planet into a wonderful Terran planet! It's sill ultra poor, so, either food or research!

 

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Oh hell.....this must be THE ANTARANS!

 

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Compounding the massive research from Rayden: Heightened Intelligence!

 

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Now to go back and get some lower level techs! This is about the crappiest one in its level, I think Titans would be the best out of it..

 

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Well, good for them, they better give us 10% of the increased production!

 

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And in two turns? We get our power armor!

 

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Now for something that's actually useful!

 

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Well since you asked SO nicely...NO.

 

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Now that we have teraforming, we can go for every barren planet on the map. Starting with: Pollux I!

 

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Excellent, we'll be putting that to good use once we manage to steal someone else's Titan tech..

 

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Now we go after the only low level tech we have left here. That silly hippie tech that makes conquered aliens like us even though we're genocidal monsters.

 

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YES! Two levels of terraforming later: Catnip! III is now a Terran world with 8 more population than it had before!

 

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Well, they also can't revolt if they are dead... NEXT!

 

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Now something useful, like money!

 

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Oooooo, SHINY! But we have a space eel! Time to rebuild that fleet of frigates and send them over to slaughter this thing!

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Ahh yes, Moo 2, one of the few games i always play on max difficulty ( meaning the AI races get about 6 race pick points added for free, semi randomly - some of those can be BRUTAL )

 

Also worthy of mention is one of the best custom race systems I've seen in a game, I almost never play stock races anymore

 

A few observations that might be helpful, either now or in later games

 

On the tech window, you can click the tech field name to see current and future techs in that field.

 

Outpost ships have 2 main uses : One, they give you a spot from which to extend your ship's reach, and Two, if you outpost then colonize a planet, the new colony has a Marine Barracks built already (not so useful under Unification and Democracy, decent for Despotism, and very nice for Feudal governments)

 

For early scouts, i don't use bombs on them, i either leave them unarmed (less cost to build and more maneuver in combat) or give them a 2 shot nuke missile rack, so they can actually kill other scouts.

 

For monsters, if you're willing to spend more construction effort, most monsters can be killed with 1 battleship filled with 2 shot MIRV nukes, though i do normally have battle pods to use there - this does only use 4 command points, instead of 8 to 15. To get a missile to be able to have the MIRV modification, get its tech field 2 levels past where you learned the missile.

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Yay!

 

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On Rayden, we have huge amounts of research. About 1/3 of all teching is cominf from this one planet and that is including all the static bonuses on every planet!

 

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Now that we have those little ships built, let's go fight the space worm!

 

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And on the way, we get the Astro University! This thing adds +1 to all 3 types of colonist on any planet it's built!

 

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Shit.. As soon as we commit to moving away from the Meklar with our huge fleet you go and do that..

 

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Great! 2 turns until they hit our colonies in Pollux.

 

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And we'll be back in 3 turns! NOOOO!!!

 

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ASSHOLES!

 

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Annnd they take one of our planets!

 

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Screw it! We're wiping them out!

 

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Now we're going for your homeworld, bitches!

 

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Prepare to die!

 

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Luckily for us, their fleet is out and we only have to deal with a starbase.

 

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Neutron blasts pound the installation, but we quickly bring it down!

 

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HA!

 

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The two Meklar craft return to try and save their pathetic homeworld. Neither are really a threat, this should be over in no time!

 

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Our ships swarm in and engage at point blank range to make the most of their energy weapons. This leads to destroyer being ripped apart nearly instantly. THe cruiser holds on for a while, but it too dies!

 

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With the Meklar fleet in shambles, we bring in some transports and reinforcement frigates to finish them off.

 

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INVADE!

 

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We go in 4 vs 3, 3 of each die, but that's good enough!

 

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MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

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Onward to Hoshi!

 

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With nothing in orbit, we simply come in and take it!

 

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With the Meklar Empire fallen, all remaining Meklar will be on exibit in the Meklon and Hoshi systems.

 

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Oh pulllease, I'm not giving your pathetic civilization anything. You're only confined to one system and about to go EXTINCT.

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To deal with this Psilon and Sakkra bullshit, we're going to make spies. Lots and lots of spies!

 

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In the meantime, we send in another colony ship to the Roch system to set up a new world!

 

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And along the way we get new techs! These are like mech things but they are better that tanks, somehow...

 

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Arriving in Roch, we land the colony ship and christen the landing site: EBM!

 

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Next up on the research front: Recyclotron. This thing adds another point of industry per colonist on any planet it is built!

 

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Greetings fish people!

 

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Our fleet finally arrives in the Habor system and procedes to engage the space eel! Our floatilla of little ships move into range and start firing! Several turns later, we have barely scratched it! Fortunately, we didn't try this BEFORE going to face the Meklars, because our little fleet is in shambles and running back to Klackon space for repairs.

 

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On the bright side: New Research! This building will add a static bonus to the industry of a planet, regardless of whether there are any active workers.

 

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On the rebuilding front, we recolonize that world we lost in the Pollux system. It's not that great, but we're rapidly going through the tech tree and getting techs that will make the downsides largely irrelivant.

 

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In the interests of peace, the Psilons give us a colony in the Menalo system. They have apparently recently colonized here, because last we looked, they were confined to one world in their home system.

 

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One pathetic Psilon colonist works at building absolutely nothing!

 

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And the Sakkra apparently don't like this, so they decide to end the alliance!

 

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Annd, more tech!

 

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We get the stupid Psilons to trade us something we can't research. Since we're going to be invading them next time they get the slightest bit out of line, this is a good deal.

 

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Now...to deal with that space monster the proper way. We're going to use the missiles we just got from the Psilons and have a single pew pew as a fallback weapon just in case 2 shots isn't enough to deal with any problem we have.

 

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Excellent! This is a tech that gets us a bonus without having to built anything!

 

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To Habor!

 

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Fire 1! And the space eel goes down in a swarm of missiles. The colony ship we sent along with the fleet sets down on the planet and sets up our colony. As a play on words we name it: Harbor

 

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Since we aren't allied to the Sakkra it's perfectly fine to spy on them now. We learn the secret of antimatter bombs!

 

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And right after, our scientists announce new fuel systems that allow us to travel 12 parsecs from home!

 

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You want 5% tribute from me? SCREW YOU! You want war? Well, it's your funeral!

 

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We launch on Monstrum!

 

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And Menalo!

 

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In Monstrum we simply carpet bomb them. We would have glassed the place, but didn't have the firepower. Guess our forces in the rear can deal with these Sakkra, these ships are needed elsewhere.

 

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Meanwhile, our other fleet arrives at Menalo. Time to engage the Sakkra!

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Damn, you're ugly!

 

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Kill it with fire!

 

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The pathetic Sakkra only have basic defense on their structures. This little station only has 60 structure and armor!

 

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Our second volley of missile easily take it out!

 

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Klackon troops land and take over the 2 planets in the system largely unopposed!

 

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None of our marines die in combat, at all! Pathetic Sakkra!

 

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New weapon, yay!

 

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Xengara, rawr!

 

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DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!!!!

 

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BOOM! Also, gems!

 

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Onward to the homeworld!

 

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Excellent!

 

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Our fleet arrives and moves on the Sakkra homeworld.

 

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Tigger, smash!

 

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With Menalo taken, we set our sights on the surrounding star systems. Our fleet here is going to divide in two and hit two systems at once!

 

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With the back of the Sakkra Empire broken, these small ships should be good enough to take anything left over.

 

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Our reinforcements are building at Silencer, and we really need some more troop ships!

 

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HA! They only had one marine guarding the colony. We curb stomp him!

 

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The other? We took that wouldn't firing a shot!

 

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Oooo, we might want to steal that...

 

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Cower in fear before the might of the Klackon Empire!

 

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Oh note on Vitruvious: It was a Mrrshan colony originally. The Sakkra took it from them apparently.

 

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They...are...alll....DEAD!

 

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Our reinforcements hit Xengara and takes over without resistance.

 

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The Sakkra Homeworld is no more! It has ceased to be!

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These might be nice since we're the Klackons and don't have that whole morale thing anyway...but we're not going to use them since they are only good for science and we can't move them to other tasks..

 

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Yes, give me your pulson missiles before we go in and destroy your pathetic race!

 

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Prepare to die Sakkra!

 

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WHOOOOSH! BOOOM!!!

 

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DIEDIEDIE!

 

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And from the rubble we take: Nano Disassemblers!

 

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Screw you!

 

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HAHAHAHAHA!

 

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Because of this, we're going to totally depopulate the Tur system!

 

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And to speed things along we'll induce starvation!

 

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Now on to the last Sakkra world!

 

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Our missiles pound the starbase taking it out in the opening volley...

 

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Our troops land and slaughter all opposition!

 

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HA!

 

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And as soon as the Sakkra fall, the Psilons make threats. This will NOT be tolerated!

 

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TO THE PSILON HOMEWORLD!

 

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Meanwhile, our scientist learn how to network and increase productivity!

 

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Yep...WAR, bitches!

 

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Well these should fall quickly...

 

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Our fleet annihilated the Psilons with 0 losses!

 

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Yeah, we're not even going to bother with bombing you. You're too pathetic for it to give us an actual edge. Prepare to die to our tritanium reinforced mandibles!

 

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One trooper dies as the entire Psilon force is wiped out. ALL HAIL EMPEROR TIGGER!

 

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OUR history books!

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