Why not make it 3 AAR at the same time? I finally decided to give this AAR thing a try as I've never done it before. Welcome to my Hiver AAR! I'll try to play the same game setup as SV and Silencer. http://i.imgur.com/IeZRel.png One opponent of each race and 2 random to make things interesting. http://i.imgur.com/Ah3NAl.png This is our starting location. We are at the edge of the map. http://i.imgur.com/ZULszl.png I don't have some grand research plan so I pick tech that I think I'll need most at the moment. http://i.imgur.com/WKHQFl.png As you can see, we are exploring our cluster + 1 gate is going to cluster right of us. We have discoverend 2 nice planets (they were colonized immediately). http://i.imgur.com/8Rq4el.png Next tech to research is Cruiser construction. You can see all tech we have researched until now as well (Of course in 3 cases we went overbudget). http://i.imgur.com/7ZI4ml.png And our first random encounter! What did we encounter? Dreaded swarm or maybe formidable Asteroid monitor? http://i.imgur.com/e3bJ7l.png Neither! It's Alien derelict. http://i.imgur.com/QGlfQl.png As you can see, we have a new colony and we have scouted a nice planet. Planet with Alien derelict is not so nice. http://i.imgur.com/m1PUbl.png We have a new colony. 3 more planets are scouted. Only 1 is good and 1 has Alien derelict. http://i.imgur.com/Li5Ryl.png We have a new colony and Alien derelict is dealt with. http://i.imgur.com/zFVL1l.png We have cruisers now! Now lets make them easier to build. http://i.imgur.com/QpcLJl.png We have scouted 2 nice planets which are immediately colonized. And our gate is halfway to the other cluster. http://i.imgur.com/trnDll.png Some more research completed (and on time for a change!) http://i.imgur.com/ffnAal.png We have scouted a nice planet. But of course, this had to happen. Frankly I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. http://i.imgur.com/JsKqFl.png And we start to research fusion. http://i.imgur.com/A4HsQl.png