Memorial Day weekend 1997 included the marvelous bonus of four days off from school. What better to do than devote half my spare time to Civ2? Around 11 AM Saturday I began the Foolish civilization. My spacecraft reached Alpha Centauri at 12:11 PM on Sunday.

We were a peaceful people, spending most of our time researching and developing- and doing very little expansion. Our military was nearly nonexistent. One fine day in the ancient world, I decided to use a Diplomat to steal a city from my northen neighbor Germany. Little did I know how much of a military Germany had. However, I won. Germany lost one city to me and sued for peace. I gladly accepted. After another flareup because the Germans asked for tribute, things remained that way for centuries. I remained lightyears ahead of all other civs in technology, production, and Wonders. Eventually, I had explored most of the continent we were on (The world had two major continents- the large one Germany and I were on and a much smaller one occupied by the Romans and Chinese.)

Anyway, after I had put cities down here and there, I continued my quiet superiority... until I noticed that the Romans and Chinese were colonizing MY continent! What's more, the placement of Chinese colonies had put a stranglehold on my development!! Well, something had to be done. Since I was a century ahead of my neighbors, I could have easily swept them off the continent. But those two had been hardened in battle against each other, and the Chinese had an enormous fleet. There was only one thing to do: SEND IN THE SPIES!

A spy network began infiltrating and subverting the colonies and outlying cities of every other nation. There were no incidents and I had plenty of money to do all this with because I had been running in a Fascist government ever since I built the Statue of Liberty in the 1100s.

After I had nearly doubled my territory by this method, a German emissary popped up and demanded tribute. Since I had the most advanced military technology and cities in the world, I refused. The Germans took one of my cities quickly. I did nothing for three years, and neither did they. At the end of this sitzkrieg, a tidal wave of steel poured out of my borders. Upper Kodak (the city they took from me earlier, and the one, ironically enough, that I had stolen milennia before) was the first to fall. Berlin was the second. The Germans pleaded for peace, but got none. I was on the warpath. In under twenty years, the German civilzation was no more.

Then, I turned back to the Romans and Chinese. I continued my policy of subverting cities until (my allies!) the Romans were reduced to six cities and the Chinese to one. Then, I declared war on China and beat the crap out of Beijing.

Not much more happened after that. My spaceship had already been launched, and so I spent the last few years before it arrived making money, researching advanced technologies, and assimilating a few Roman cities for good measure.

My colonists arrived on Alpha Centauri in A.D. 1873. My final Civ score was around 1200 and I got remembered as Alan the Clever.

Hey, there are worse things to be called.

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