Turns of ACT025 game in Apolyton PBEM Tournament

[HenryMad]

Turn to Peacekeepers

[HenryMad]

Turn to Peacekeepers

[Nanuk]

Turn sent to Gaians

[joer]

Turn 2105 sent to Hive.

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Our exploration progresses, however, I feel that we are falling already behind in other areas.
Last year, our communication frequencies got disturbed by a planet from outer space. My communications officer tells me the disturbance signal originated from another planet with a biosphere simular to Chiron, with the name Tau Ceti. I wonder if those two planets, while vast distances apart, are standing in any connection.
The communication failure resulted in random messages getting sent to the other survivors, cancelling any diplomatic progress we have made so far. I hope that we can find peace and cooperation again, now that this distant brother of Chiron has gone silent again.

We built our second base today, close to those vast fungus fields, so we can study them more closely. Nobody knows what awaits us in them. The mineral pods of the Unity are distributed all over the planet, it seems, and are proving useful to us, even know. I have launched a project to locate as many as these pods as possible. Early expansion is a requirement for this.

Other than those unstable communication frequencies, we have no sign of any other survivors of the Unity. Let us hope that any other faction leaders will understand the importance of ecological harmony even without our guidance.
Lady Joer Sky, second diary entry.

[EternalSpark]

Turn to morgan... as I was writing this I realized I forgot to do comlinks, but I will next turn... I'm an idiot

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Expansion is proceeding well, My People... we have countered no resistance from other factions or the plains of Red "Fungus" nearby, although a Hive Patrol was unable to reach a Unity Pod because of the entagling mess...

On a sad note, a Drone from Sector 7-G hampered Our communication array, using a Transmode Virus (*) to infect the system. All robots inside became erratic, attacking their human masters. Luckilly, the robots were cleansed of the virus within the year. The Drone has been located, and is undergoing... processing.

Due to the malfunction, we had to go a full year without being able to contact the other factions... we have reason to believe the Gaians will get pissy with us, as I accidentally stepped on one of those "mindworm" things as I was walking to the washroom...

But I digress.. My People, I am proud of how much We have grown in 4 years on Planet.

Remember - The Hive is One, and All that Is Not the Hive Will Be The Hive

First Citizen Eternal Spark
Yearly Report

[HenryMad]

Turn to peacekeepers

[Nanuk]

Turn sent to Gaians

[joer]

Doublepost deleted.

[This message has been edited by joer (edited April 30, 2000).]

[joer]

Turn sent to Hive.

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"Oh, I am sure the drones and the mindworms agree to his visions. Must take that commi boy all of his resources to keep'em under check."
-Lady Joer Skye, unconfirmed comment while waatching Chairman Spark's speech on 3D-TV.

On another note: We are truly not alone.

[EternalSpark]

Turn to the Monopolist..

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!!!HiveFlash!! - 2016 - March

In recent news, the HHACS (Hive Huge Ass Communications System) went online, allowing us to contact the other factions quickly and reliably. Due to the size of Planet, it will be a year before the mesage will be received decoded, and sent with a counteroffer...

"Of course we're going to try for peace first!" First Citizen Eternal Spark said to HiveFlash reporters after the ceremony. "The Hive ain't some sort of crazy 'blow 'em all up' faction. "Besides, look at the faction that landed with us. PKs, Morgan, and Gaians... did we get stuck with that witch Mirriam, or that paranoid freak Santiago? Nah. We got the most "normal" factions. Hopefully, those factions understand how important Human Peace is."

The First Citizen would not comment on how "Human Peace" would be achived.

In other news, it turns out the factions we knew about were not the only ones to have escaped the Unity. The Believers did land somewhere nearby Hive territory. Luckilly, however, the HHACS beamed the Virus which infected the HHACS last year. The Believer Base "New Jerusalem" was last seen being retrofitted into a space**** by infected Robots, and lifted off planet, in the direction of the planet "Tau Ceti". No human lifesigns were onboad the BaseShip. We wish the robots a long live of peace and prosperity on the planet Tau Ceti, and are thankful for ridding this Planet of Believer terrans.

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1) One, no, the believers ain't here, I just wanted to use 'em for part of a story.
2) The virus is actually from the Descent series, and I'm playing that now, so I figured, why not have them in the game, at least for one turn

[HenryMad]

Turn to peacekeepers

[Nanuk]

Turn sent to Gaians.

[joer]

Turn sent to Hive.

[EternalSpark]

Turn to Morgan.

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First Citizen Eternal Spark looked notably agitated in our interview with him this mission year.

"I wouldn't say agitated, per se, but I am sort of miffed. While the Peacekeepers we willing to a free World Map exchange and the Gaians have accepted a FriendShip Treaty, HenryMad Industries has shown to be rather bullsish, not wishing to depart with a mere 30 energy credits for a simple tech which he would be hard pressed to get any other way." he said, rubbing his forehead lightly.

"We're on a >edited< unknown planet, and he is all "no, I won't give you a lick of money!" Ya know, I wanna be a nice guy. I reinstated our offer in case HenryMad will understand how important this is to the survival of our people!"

In other news, the recent Gaian-Hive Peace Treaty was commemorated with a game of "Planetary DOOM" featuring The First Citizen playing for the Hive, and the Honored JoeR for the Gaians. The end was a tie, and all citizens applauded greatly.

"Curfew will be abolished for this night, giving the people time to meet with the Enlightened and Honorable JoeR." "The Spark" as the First Citizen is known through The Hive.

HiveFlash 2107

[HenryMad]

turn sent to peacekeepers