Session 2: What are you working on there?My overenthusiastic Torian engineers had continued building a colony ship on my home world without my knowledge. In other words, I forgot to tell them to stop constructing them.
Looking around to see if I might put it to good use anywhere but that rubbish little class two planet, I found a class sixteen one. It was basically the mirror opposite of the class two being positioned as it was at the far reaches of the Drengin Empire. Perhaps it was I who could claim a planet in their territory!
It was not to be unfortunately as the Drengin claimed both the class two planet in my space and the class fifteen one in their own. So my unwanted colony ship remained unused for the time being.
It was not from the Drengin, but from the Krynn that the first bullying came with them demanding an ungodly amount of money and threatening death if I did not comply.
I rejected them without thinking much about it seeing as they were at the other side of the galaxy but immediately after I began to question my decision.
I was still completely defenceless and for all I knew they might have the means to travel across the galaxy and wipe me out.
And so my research finally switched to military projects. But it was the Drengin I studied for weaknesses. I reasoned that any kind of military would warn the Krynn against attacking me, but that I had best be equipped to deal with the closer threat.
Seeing that the Drengin were focussing their research on rail gun weaponry I began to research armour for my ships. The Drengin had not yet developed any kind of armour for themselves so I chose at random to pursue the Laser line of weaponry.
From this research was born my first combat spaceship, armed with two mark five lasers and two titanium mark two armours. The purpose of this ship was merely to defend my planets not to invade and so advanced engine types, life support and the like were superfluous to requirements.
I admit that I may have been a bit overzealous in designing the look of the ship but that should make up for the fact that it's a bit rubbish in the grand scheme of things. When I finally sat back and admired my work, I knew it could be named but one thing.
As soon as the design of the Krueger was complete all my planets began producing them at an unchecked rate until it began taking noticible chunks from my budget. But by that point, I was easily on par with all other races in the military stakes. For the first time ever.
My research bounced from economic technology to scientific and to technology that allowed me to improve the quality of my planets. My colonies, all four of them, had run out of building space and so those planetary improvements had become something of a requirement.
Not only that, but my crazy engineers on Toria had built yet another colony ship without me asking for it. This time Im placing the blame squarely with them.
So now I had two colony ships taking up space in my home planets starport. I didn't have the heart to dismantle them. Not after my Torians had put so much hard work into them, bless their little cotton socks.
And so only one option remained. I would attempt to discover the means of colonising planets with a toxic atmosphere since there were two such planets nearby anyway. Besides, that technology lay along the very line of research I was pursuing.
As it turned out, one of the toxic planets was taken by the Iconian Refuge (I got the one in Drengin space) and so I was forced to spend time researching radioactive world colonisation to make use of the second colony ship.
There are different levels of hostile world colonisation research and I got the bare minimum before sending my colonists to their new homes. After all my economy was strong and with my species Super Breeder ability, they would develop into profitable planets in no time. I hoped.
Incredibly, I had been coming first in the list of the most powerful civilizations. Another first time for me.
But after all the faffing about with advanced colonising I had slipped behind technologically. Nevertheless, I have a strong military, a strong economy and a fairly good research rate with which I should be able to catch up in no time.
Being the ruler of a civilization isn't all about research, money and war though. Sometimes hard ethical decisions must be made.
There was the time when I spent a fair amount of money to rescue some miners from their own sillyness. There was the time I chose to rescue as many citizens as possible from an erupting volcano rather than let them die. There was also a time when a drug was discovered that made my soldiers stronger but halved their lifespan. The latter was the one instance where I chose the neutral path and made the drug voluntary.
And so the Torian Confederation continues to flourish despite their unfortunate placement in the galaxy. Im not sure how to go about actually winning the game but Im just happy enough to have survived this long even if it is as one of the smallest civilizations.
That said, I had to zoom out considerably to fit my peoples empire into the following screenshot. That pleases me.
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