Time Machine

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(This story is not as interesting as the title may suggest)

I started as Queen Nazca of the Aztecs on World Map small. North America was so small I only could fit 6 cities without over laping, although there was a lot of gold terrain which meant a lot of trade! South America was all jungle, although I manage d to settle four good sites. I decided to win the peaceful way and did not settle or attack the other continents. The people lived freely in a republic and were building many wonders and good city improvements.

One of the wonders built was Marco Polo's Embassy. I quickly talked to the 3 remaining opponents from the original six. The English had swallowed up the romans and the Chinese has crushed the Indians and Delhi was the largest city under Chinese rul e. After receiving maps from the Japanese, they only had one 8 size city, Kyoto since any other colonies would have been des troyed by their powerful rivals. We traded technology and while the English and Chinese battled, my people became part of a great democracy.

By 1689, my cities began construction on factories, then stock markets, universities and the Hoover dam wonder. Teolithitan was a 10 sized city but has the most production because of gold terrain while the other cities averaged 16 and growing. By t he late 1700's, construction on spaceship parts began by the Aztecs and their rival, the Chinese. I decided to colonize Aust ralia in case I was overrun by my enemies. I built a transport and only decided to build on settler so my other cities could continue work on the spaceship. Then I saw Kyoto fall to a barbarian horde and the Japanese were dead. I quickly changed pr oduction a Calgary unit. The next turn, Japanese destroyers destroyed all the barbarian defender. I quickly changed to a rif lemen, bought it and sent it to Japan were an undefined Kyoto fell. Now I was only 2 transport squared away from Beijing, th e Chinese capital.

At the same time, a important decision was made. My people did not want to fight a war with the Chinese but I had a great po sition to launch nuclear attacks. I told my scientists to create a time machine so I could return to 1798, if things didn't work out. The finished it and called it azt1798.sav and told me how to use it. I hoped I wouldn't have to use it.

In the early 1800's, the Chinese built Seti,dam it, and discovered almost every technology. The launched their spaceship and it was due to land in 1821. I launched my spaceship a few turns later that would land in 1845. I quickly set to work on the Manhattan project after I painstakinly researched it. I put maximum tax and bought it. I managed to buy a nuclear missile a nd paratrooper and they were ready just one turn before the Chinese spaceship was due to land! Bye Bye Beijing. Oh dam it, i t had a SDI defense, dam Seti program. Next turn the Chinese land, I lose. Time to use the time machine.

It worked! I disposed of my past self and quickly gained the technology to build the Manhattan project. While it was under w ork, a spy investigated Beijing. The were halfway done a SDI defense! Using sabotage, it was quickly destroyed and the spy b ecame a veteran. Since Beijing had only three production squares working, (it was a democracy with a lot of units) the spy w as needed only one more time.

1815. A nuclear missile is fired a Beijing from Kyoto. NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Yah! Beijing falls. Chinese split i nto Chinese and Sioux which quickly became a new ally. Then the English joined our alliance and it was the English, Aztecs a nd the Sioux verses the great Chinese Empire, not for long. The new Chinese capital falls to another Nuclear missile and the y split into the Germans and the Chinese. Then the veteran spy tries to smuggle a missile into the last Chinese city over 18 but is caught And there is an intentional incident. Every civilization declared war on me, except for the Indians, who beca me Uncooperative Allied. Not for long, a few gift and the Indians are worshipful. As the Chinese are destroyed, it become th e English and Germans against the loyal Indians and Aztecs. Nuclear missiles are fired, cities fall and are retaken.

Suddenly the Aztec spaceship will be landing in a short 12 years or so. Just when I checked my capital and saw it was defend ing by a lone veteran phalanx and city walls but no SDI defense. Hah, like to see them land I say since I had a few battlesh ips protecting the coast and I switched to fundamentalism and all my Asian cities stopped crying about 23 hour labor to make armies and nukes. With 8 years to go, the unthinkable happens, A German nuke makes it to my a capital and Noooooo, Kaboom. The new fanatic defense were gone leaving the city undefended. Luckily no transport seems to have even left one of their por ts, the computer should be a little smarter on transcontinental nuclear warfare. Mabye it is on Diety.

In the remaining years, global warming occurs twice. Who cares I said, were leaving Earth to pollute another planet and kill its inhabitants. My cities starve and lose about 8 population points. Except for my capital which has 1 surplus and 2 of my south American cities which were already surrounded by jungle. The English spaceship launched and had a date for 1899. Ther e was world peace in 1841, when the last of my nuclear attacks on London, York ands the other English cities were launched a nd the English died a horrible death just when my spaceship landed on Alpha ? whatever that planets name is. But some how I was called a Cheater, what I didn't toggle the cheat mode? A bug? and I was called Nazca Forkbeard?

Thank You for listening to my long story sir. Sir ? Sir? Wakeup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also thank you for the spell check Microsoft Office. No Bill, you can't steal Civilization 2 from Microspose. It's copyright ed, does that mean anything to you?

By Amin Email me at sabz@axion.net