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Chironian News Network Issue 16 – VICTORY SPECIAL
Victory Though Unity – Diplomatic Victory Achieved
By GeneralTacticus
In an announcement that has been eagerly awaited for years of game time and weeks of real time, the Commissioner’s office disclosed yesterday that the United Nations, in spite of unanimous opposition from the other factions, had been appointed as leaders of a new united humanity. The last resolution passed by the Planetary Council before it’s dissolution handed overall power over all factions to Commissioner DeathByTheSword of the UN, with Acting Commissioner and Alpha Talent GeneralTacticus as his deputy. Given that DBTS had been AWOL for some time prior to this and has still not been found, GeneralTacticus has been left with essentially unchallenged power. Asked what he planned to do with it, he replied “Classified.” Plans for the majority of factional leaders who had opposed and fought against the UN remain undisclosed, but will probably involve war crimes tribunals for Yang and his subordinates. Plans for the others are unknown.
Screenshots of the victory process:
Final Push Against Hive Before Victory
By GeneralTacticus
Just short time before Alpha Talent GeneralTacticus and DFA Hercules convened the Planetary Council for the very last time, UN troops under the personal direction of the Alpha Talent launched a major push into Hive territory, seizing three bases form the Hive and leaving the countryside littered with the wreckage of destroyed Hive tanks and jets. Much of Yang’s remaining air force was utterly pulverised, along with a large number of infantry, and the hovertanks that first entered The Leader’s Horde, The Hive and Labourer’s Throng to raise the UN flag did so effectively unopposed. Word from those bases before the victory celebrations started was that UN forces had successfully restored order in an area of the Hive notorious for rioting by it’s impoverished majority, and were attempting to begin integrating the bases into the UN political and economic system. Asked to estimate when the integration process will be complete, local Governors said it was too early to tell, but ti could take up to fifty years or more.
Bunnies, Schoolgirls, and Xenobrew – Party of a Lifetime
By Kassiopeia
After taking a few anti-hangover pills, I managed to get myself up from my lovely bed to tell you about the directorate meeting that lead us to supreme leadership and the party that followed soon afterwards.
In the evening, rather late already on my timezone, we had gathered to #smacdg. The people present were Alpha Talent and acting-commissioner GeneralTacticus, the Director of Science Kassiopeia, the Director of Foreign Affairs Hercules, and citizen ColdWizard. TKG, the Director of Internal Affairs, dropped by but had to leave soon on an urgent matter.
At the beginning of the chat, we decided unanimously to follow Maniac's earlier proposal of basically tossing the current orderset and just concentrating on the decided-upon form of victory, namely, planetary leadership. ColdWizard and I whipped our calculators out, and every now and then GT would tally up the numbers for counting. Tension rose as the numbers climbed up: 70%, 71.875%...
I myself rather enjoyed the way we played the game. GT would concentrate on playing and giving us heads-up information every now and then. I would scour some orders he wanted to follow for him, and decided on research goals. I strayed a bit from the polled path since I wanted us to get as much Secret Projects as possible.
Later on we got some grief over Morgan who wanted a pact - the wording regarding co-operative victory in the manual was a bit ambivalent, so we just turned him down and continued on our sprint for supreme leadership.
Finally, we were getting very, very close. Some bases were taken from the Hive, which increased our vote base somewhat. Then, year 2285 was complete. The calculations showed that we held a bit over 75 percent of the total votes in the Planetary Council. We took one more turn to make sure, and to complete a few SPs, and finally, we were there. Cheers and dancing broke out as we retitled ourselves to acting supreme leader, supreme science director and whatnot.
After the election, we decreed upon certain aspects of the celebrations. GT ordered several thousands of crates of Xenobrew, a week-long planetary holiday was declared, and the Rec Commons are still having a happy hour. Even the green bouncy things joined us in the party; at least I think they did, but I was too dr... er, happy, to recall.
However, now, you must excuse me. I don't remember much of last might, but I just noticed that there is a discarded schoolgirl uniform on the floor...
The First Apolyton SMAC Democracy Game: September 3rd 2002 - April 19th 2003
By Kassiopeia
After a bit over eight months, 186 turns, and over 830 threads with over 21500 posts in them, the first ACDG is finally completed.
On this moment of triumph, it is good to take a little look back to the past and tally up the progress of the game. The first turn was played by Alpha Talent Darkness' Edge in September 3rd, after about a month of discussion - the forum was created on August 5th.
The first Commissioner was the enigmatic Crisler, who has been absent ever since. After him, we have had three different Commissioners. GeneralTacticus and DeathByTheSword are the leading figures of the game, Tacticus was Commissioner for three terms in a row, and DBTS was Commissioner for three terms as well.
Tacticus was also either AT, Commissioner or a Director on every single term: His wide resume includes the chairs of Director of Peacekeeping Operations, Director of Foreign Affairs and several terms of Governorhood. Fittingly, Tacticus was also the acting commissioner as the game was finished in MY 2286 (April 19th 2003).
Let us return to the very first steps of the game. Some might raise an eyebrow at the notion that in the initial discussions, Kassiopeia was suggested for the position of Commissioner, as his large postcount hinted - at least to Maniac, or M@ni@c back then - that he is an active poster with "free time". In the end, Kassiopeia was Director for only the first and last terms, I and VIII, holding first the chair of Director of Social Engineering and then Director of Science. He posted only one single official poll during the DG, and focused more on spending his time in the Recreation Commons and being a member of the UN court.
TKG was also a noteworthy person, not only for being a pain in the neck and getting banned while in office, but since most of the following tables of statistics were compiled with the help of his brain child, the very helpful ACDG Directory (which he did fail to update after his (un)fortunate and rather lengthy ban). TKG also served as Governor, Director of Science and Director of Internal Affairs. His crazy experiments are rumoured to have caused the GMTLFITRCBR (green mysterious tentacled life form in the rec commons bath room. pronounced guhm-TEL-fit-RICK-ber) invasion.
Lemmy, Director of Exploration and Intelligence for three consecutive terms and Alpha Talent for a few terms, was notorious in his attempts to become even (slightly) evil and get locked up in jail.
Charges against Lemmy were:
1 Serial murder (sample exhibits, Tacticalmarine, juliennew)
2 Non grand theft microkred
3 Grand Theft xenobrew
4 Being evil
5 witchcraft
6 vampirism
7 Leaving the scene of a crime
8 Use of horrendously bad humour while on duty
And one must not forget the factor Archaic brought in. Some of you might not like him, but as far as I'm concerned he was a very good and skillful addition to the game.
Also, some memorable quotes from The Rec Commons Part 2, which is hereby given the well-deserved title of "The funniest and most legendary thread of the ACDG":
"Kass and TKG after seeing who posted how many times here....i must say havent got anything better to do?" -- DeathByTheSword
"I would contend that the recent manifestations of Kass as furniture and as a chandelier is yet more evidence of Lemmy dabblings in witchcraft. " -- Hercules in Lemmy's trial
"cant we get a restraining order for lemmy that forbids him for going to Jail?" -- DeathByTheSword
"Maniac should really do something about the restroom. I think the green thing growing behind the urinals that I saw three weeks ago is going to reach sentience and try to overthrow Mankind soon." -- Kassiopeia
"you know i had a weird dream this night, nightmare actually, i dreamt that TKG became a mod on Apolyton" -- Lemmy
Personally, I would like to express my thanks to all of you guys (and girls) who participated in this democracy game. I myself made a great deal of new chums during this game, had a damn good time and don't regret having time invested in this game - not that I should be saying that, since my participation pales in comparison to what most of you have done. It has been a great eight months and an honour to work with you. "And to all the children... Congratulations!"
Here are the Term governments:
Term I
Commissioner: Crisler
Alpha Talent: Darkness' Edge
Director of Science: TKG
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Lemmy
Director of Base Production: MrWhereItsAt
Director of Industry and Energy: Vlad Antlerkov
Director of Terraformation and Colonization: Pandemoniak
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: GeneralTacticus
Director of Foreign Affairs: Anodyne
Director of Social Engineering: Kassiopeia
Term II
Commissioner: DeathByTheSword
Alpha Talent: Diablero (was impeached, replaced by MrWhereItsAt)
Director of Science: TKG
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Lemmy
Director of Base Production: Makahlua
Director of Industry and Energy: Maniac
Director of Terraformation and Colonization: Pandemoniak
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: Darkness' Edge
Director of Foreign Affairs: GeneralTacticus
Director of Social Engineering: Abstain (MrWhereItsAt elected in new election)
Term III:
Commissioner: DeathByTheSword
Alpha Talent: Joeno
Director of Science: TKG
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Lemmy
Director of Base Production: Makahlua
Director of Industry and Energy: dmm1285
Director of Terraformation and Colonization: Maniac
Director of Foreign Affairs: GeneralTacticus
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: Darkness' Edge
Director of Social Engineering: AdamTG02
Term IV:
Commissioner: Darkness' Edge
Alpha Talent: Lemmy
Director of Science: AdamTG02
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Drogue
Director of Internal Affairs: TKG
Director of Foreign Affairs: GeneralTacticus
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: DeathByTheSword
Director of Social Engineering: Archaic
Governors (replaced DBP): Maniac, DeathByTheSword, Voltaire, GeneralTacticus
Term V:
Commissioner: GeneralTacticus
Alpha Talent: Lemmy
Director of Science: Voltaire
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Drogue
Director of Internal Affairs: TKG
Director of Foreign Affairs: AdamTG02
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: Hercules
Director of Social Engineering: Pandemoniak
Governors: Drogue, GeneralTacticus, Maniac, Voltaire, DeathByTheSword
Term VI:
Commissioner: GeneralTacticus
Alpha Talent: Maniac
Director of Science: AdamTG02
Director of Exploration and Intelligence: Vultur
Director of Internal Affairs: TKG
Director of Foreign Affairs: Voltaire
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: Hercules
Director of Social Engineering: Pandemoniak
Governors: GeneralTacticus, Maniac, TKG, Voltaire, Cedayon
Term VII:
Commissioner: GeneralTacticus
Alpha Talent: Maniac
Director of Science: War of Art
Director of Internal Affairs: Cedayon
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: MrWhereItsAt
Director of Foreign Affairs: Hercules
Director of Social Engineering: Lemmy
Governors: Archaic, Cedayon, TKG, Voltaire, Hercules, lucky22
Director of Exploration and Intelligence merged to DPO
Term VIII:
Commissioner: DeathByTheSword
Alpha Talent: GeneralTacticus
Director of Science: Kassiopeia
Director of Internal Affairs: TKG
Director of Peacekeeping Operations: Drogue
Director of Foreign Affairs: Hercules
Director of Social Engineering: Archaic
Governors: GeneralTacticus, Hercules, TKG, Drogue, Lucky
First turn played: September 3rd 2002 (GMT)
Last turn played: April 19th 2003 (GMT)
Also, may I bring into memory another memorable statement:
Byw what the hey, well done GT, a great achievement 
Also, I didn't concentrate on the latest faces of the DG, since my purpose was to focus on the days of yore when we had people like Crisler and Darkness' Edge aboard. To freshen our memories, so to speak. I really recommend reading some of the early threads from August and September 2002.
computer down for 2 weeks and what do you guys do.....win without me! 
but anyways.... 
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