Turns of Democracy in Peril

[Darius]

John, that's an excellent idea to put a base on that island. I'll take care of it.

I couldn't get to Phi Lumiere in one turn becuse of the forest. I'll get there next turn, if no one takes it by then.

2209 to John.

[johndmuller]

2109

I took out Iota (whatever) Base - It didn't have enough pops to survive being taken over. I would have rather gotten the base, but it didn't have any facilities anyway; I decided to take it out because Yang was using it as an airport and that was a no-no according to the Morgan Doctrine. Perhaps I'll start a new base in the same general area to be able to drop units from 3rdWorld directly into a (sllightly closer) base than Pi Complex and to take advantage of all that good quality land.

One of you guys can have Phi Lumiere if you want it; if you don't, I'll take it eventually.

I'm going to take Beta Mudflats eventually - I've blocked Aki's soon-to-be boat in there with my boat and I'll start shelling them next turn (after they've spent all their mins on a useless transport); meanwhile, I'll bring in another shell and turn it into an amphib, unless my returning Transport gets there in time to take a unit over to there.

Guv Knowhow2, Congrats! How about an intelligence report on the Spartans; I'm soon to sail into that base across from 3rd world with a single probe ship - does she have a probe there I'll have to fight? What about air forces?

[knowhow2]

turn 2209 to darius

I took Phi Lumirie adn with that, PDL. So We can if they don't take it back go tech frenzy.

Great to be Governer.

John, Hero's Waypoint is Empty but support 4 units.

[Darius]

I captured Psi Consensus from the Consciousness. I don't think I'll do much more in that area for now. I think I'll concentrate in the Hive to my west. I'm catching up on some of my infrastructure builds and starting to build up an invasion force.

2210 to John.

[johndmuller]

2110 Here.

Sorry I took a little long - RL is a little demanding this time of year .

Looks like I'm going to get the Cloning Vats, so I'll be and looking for the Hab Domes soon; will probably up my research level a bit (although I do like all those and the psych is useful for drone control at the small bases).

If you guys need some garrison support at those former Cyborg bases, place your orders at Morgan Mercenaries, Inc., Pty., Ltd. I don't know what kind of forces Yang has over there, so I don't know what you need. You will need, however, to upgrade the luxury level of your barracks facilities if you expect Morgan Mercenaries Professionals to feel at home. I assume that you guys can keep Yang's Air Force at bay down there. Does he have ships and probes to worry about?

I'm going to put a few colonies over there in the new territories so that I can go after Santi from several directions at once. Hopefully you guys can keep the bad airplanes suppressed so I can do some terraforming.

I'm working on Beta Mudflats; just taking my time, wearing it down with artillery so as not to get any bad press back home for taking unnecessary casualities in an all out assault. If Yang puts any planes in there, they will get stuck there after being damaged by the artie and end up staying there until their eventual demise. Estimated takeover within 4 years.

[knowhow2]

turn 2210 to darius

the Hive have Fusion weapon (Organic Super).

Captured another Cyborg base.

Planetary Economics for Hybrid Forrest and Global Trade pact would be great.

[Darius]

2211 to John. Nothing to report, except for another scramble bug crash.

[johndmuller]

2211.

Infiltrated Spartans - they have quite a few bases (more than I would have thought).

Knowhow2, Please give me the Orbital Spaceflight tech.

[knowhow2]

turn 2111 to darius

I didn't know I had Oribital Spaceflight (which I didn't until Hive gave it too two other factions.... PDL) so now I have it. Next tech on research, Adv Eco Eng for superformers.

The Chairman keeps missile bombing m Delta Trench, that hurts.

[Darius]

2212 to John. No crashes.

My defenses are coming along nicely. Almost ready to start planning a large-scale invasion of the Hive.

[knowhow2]

I'm leaving town till 4 january sorry about the inconvinience.

[johndmuller]

I guess I'll take my time on this turn then .

Darius, if you are interested in starting up something else in the meanwhile, I think I will have the time as my other 'aged' game seems to be going dormant too; the others I have going do not require much time. Any ideas?

[Darius]

Replied by email.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

[knowhow2]

today is 4th of january

[johndmuller]

2212 Here (again).

Knowhow2: Good to have you back; sorry the turn wasn't here (but take it out on Poly, not me).

I uploaded the turn yesterday, Jan 3rd (along with various comments etc.). I wasn't able to send you the turn via email as your mailbox was rejecting incomings. Poly had been having a lot of problems, but seemed to be back up yesterday - apparently they had more problems and reloaded from some prior database which didn't include my upload (or editing of my prior post with the previous turn (once again) in it).

Let me say this about that .

So I'll attempt to upload it again (and try to send it to you via email again).

Meanwhile, summarizing my message from my (dubious) memory of it.

Knowhow2: I would suggest that you research N-Space Compression (for Fleshettes & ultimately Orbital Def Pods) but I don't think that you have Biomachinery. I can give Biomachinery to you if you research it and then you can maybe switch to N-Space when you get it. Otherwise, it would be nice to get Hybrid Forests and Hab Domes, so anything you research along those lines would be OK with me. I think that I am researching Organic Superlube (getting it the turn after next?), so if you want to, you could also research that until I give it to you. As usual, whatever you want to do is OK, as long as it is the absolutely perfect thing to do .

Darius, in case you read this and don't notice the in-game message, please move the former at (45,27) to (43,25) and do another Borehole. Hopefully I hadn't given you contradictory instructions earlier. The drop former is still supposed to go to the island.

I took out a Spartan attack foil off my east coast - looked at their military details and noticed that they are loaded with land mil units, probably as many as all of us together - hate to think about the Hive.

I plan to take Beta Mudflats next turn - that will leave only 2 Consciousness bases IIRC.

I had some other things to say in the lost message, but . . . .????

Hope you download this before they take it away again.