Turns of Democracy in Peril

[johndmuller]

MY 2166 to brother knowhow2

Strangely, it is listing me as tech leader.

[knowhow2]

turn 2166 to darius

The Cyborgs just finished building the Planetary datalinks.

a UoP transport is just outside mu eastern seaborder. Don't worry, I got military units out there. And some probes is on its way.

OC in two turns

[Darius]

I infiltrated the Consciousness. I didn't have time to write everything down before work. They have ten bases, including one that I will probably destroy next turn. They have four transports, but not many units to threaten us yet.

My first needlejet is complete. However,
(attack aircraft) + (Free Market) = drone riots
I'm going to drop out of Market for a while, at least until I get some Clean units and punishment spheres set up.

Turn to John.

[johndmuller]

MY 2167 to brother knowhow2

I should have BioEng (Clean) in MY 2130; I'll assume that you both want it unless I hear otherwise.

Darius, I was going to bring up the pacifist drones, but I thought that you were building a SAM NJ from the number of rows (it was the Proto that added the rows, I guess). The p-drones are a real pain to support and as we don't have the tech for Punishment Spheres (Adv Mil Algs) yet . . . Speaking of that, we are not too far from it, especially if Knowhow2 can research Adaptive Doc as his next tech (some people have deviated from the One True Path).

There is also the option of using Police State and FM (perhaps we are going that way in RL?), but that is a big change in efficiency, I'm not sure what the overall effect would be. Green would also be a nice option to have (especially for Morgan - banned from planned), but alas, we also lack the tech (Cent Empathy) for that.

[knowhow2]

turn 2167 to darius

OC next turn

[Darius]

2168 to John.

I wrote down all of the Consciousness units, but now I am too lazy to type them out here. Suffice it to say that they have 4 transports and two Unity transports, and are starting to produce missile (level 6 weapon) units. They have ten bases, and are 24 turns away from completing the Citizen's Defense Force. Oh, and they have a 90% damaged probe team where I stupidly tried to steal a tech without first checking to see if they had a probe team in that base (too tired to be playing).

[johndmuller]

MY 2168 to brother knowhow2

[knowhow2]

turn 2168 darius

I got the OC now and forced by the bad choices I picked SoHB so please one of you send that tech to me.

[Darius]

2169 to John. I gave SotHB to Knowhow2. Nothing else to report, except that I have a chopper and a needlejet on station in John's territory for Spartan control duty.

[johndmuller]

MY 2169 to brother knowhow2

Darius, if you think that the quick healing of the A/C is worth the turn to go there, there is one at M. Mountain Resources. [That would be 1 turn to get there + 1 turn to get well (+ maybe a turn to get closer to the action) versus ? turns with only a Cmd Cntr.]

[knowhow2]

john,

turn not received please resent and control if you got the right email.

[johndmuller]

Knowhow2,
Here it is; sorry about before - I must have forgotten to email the turn after I posted (I was getting rushed to go out to dinner). Hope you didn't wait up for it after I said that I sent it. By the way, what is the actual time difference - right now it is a little past midnight here and at least as shown at the bottom of the various screens, the Apolyton clock seems accurate. I presume you see the time in the post translated into your local time and it also shows you local time at the bottom of the page. If they are consistent, then the difference between us should be just the difference between 12:15AM and whatever it shows as this post time. I would guess it would be 5 or 6 hours, but maybe you don't adjust your time in summer being so far north it wouldn't make much difference. Anyway, sorry for the slipup.
John

[knowhow2]

turn 2169 to darius

got the SoHB amd now going for Adaptive Doctrine.

Bio-Engineering *followed by the gurgle sound and drolling a lá Homer Simpson*

,,,,,,,
John, my time right now shows 07:47 and that is CET- central european time.

[Darius]

I neutralized one of the Spartan units threatening John. My needlejet was 90% damaged, but it was worth it for the promotion.

I liberated Nonlinear Mathematics from the Consciousness. I'm assuming you guys don't want it, as we have better weapons already. However, we will eventually need to get Superconductor as a prerequisite for Superstring and Applied Relativity.

I'm preparing to transport a couple of formers to your territory, John, to let you have use of some WP-enhanced formers. I'll just trade them for a couple of your formers, which I will bring back to my base and then you can transfer control of them to me. Then you can give me instructions for my formers in your territory and I will carry them out. Knowhow2, do you want to do this as well?

Turn 2170 to John.

[johndmuller]

MY 2170 to brother knowhow2

I sent Bioengineering to each of you. It didn't offer me Intel Integ, Grrrrr, but it did allow me to do MMI, which I am now researching; scheduled for 2170.

Thanks for knocking off the Spartan dude Darius; if you want to have target practice on the other one too, be my guest; let me know your 'druthers. I was hoping that the Spartans would make me an offer to join them against you, but they didn't, at least not yet. If they offer me a pact, I think I would accept it and hope to turn them to our side - I could probably get them to call off your vendetta if I pacted with them and losing a half turn worth of commerce until you and I could repact wouldn't be such a big deal now that you are out of FM. Well, maybe next turn; of course, they may take the other approach and demand our tech.

I am definitely interested in the Former Swap. Depending on exactly when it was, I would meet you by the mouth of one of those two rivers which flow down from the two bases on your side (probably M.ModestoMagnifico Meml's river).