Part 76: Episode VII: 2375 - 2400

Episode VII: 2375-2400




Finally is definitely the right term here. It is 2383; the plague lasted well over three decades. Neither the Silicoids or Psilons have added new territory in some while now; 7 planets for the rocks, 11 for the eggheads.




We still expect to get the red and yellow one in the very lower-right corner. That would give us six. Chances of expanding beyond that are not good; I think we'd need to have radiated landings and after all this delay, we aren't getting that before others do.




A few years later, we get the Irridium cells and can finally get that idle Colonizer moving ... and another one built ... and get some more Recons flowing. We'll definitely go to Sublight here and return to a normal research distribution. Can always come back for that inertial stabilizer. Even though minimal amounts were put into them, we're close to a couple other advances also.




Been almost a half-century since our last one.




Early 90s here. At least we get the option for Robotics III, which of course we will nab right away.




Next year Industrial Tech 9 is in. I'll go 8 here, only because it's cheaper. Moving up through the tiers is going to take precedence over a lot of stuff for the time being.

2397: Kakata, max 60, is our final landing for now.




That's a Psilon colony ship; only beat them by a year. Must have reserve tanks, that's the only way they could get out this far into the corner. Because of that, I'm not worried about them taking it from us yet.




Barren landings come in, and this. We have still not had one single, solitary option for waste-reduction. At the end of the century we get Class II Shields and Hyper-V Rockets in. Class III the only shielding option ...




Having the latest stuff for our bases is really important to me, so I bypass the pellet gun and go with Hyper-X. Two missiles in a row isn't what I'd normally do -- but this isn't a normal game.




It's Zygot vs. Smurch again. The Silicoids staying out of it basically guarantees another deadlock.

** Silicoids(6)
** Bulrathi(8)
** Darloks(2) -- Zygot has at least one willing sycophant
** Humans(3) -- Make that two of them
** Psilons(10) -- Look at these guys already making a run to be masters of the universe.
** Meklar(3) -- Well yay. Somebody(Darloks) is worse than us. We abstain and it's 15-8, nobody getting to the halfway point. As long as this deadlock continues there's a chance, tiny thought it may be, of finding a way to pull of a miracle -- or at least prolonging the misery for a while.