Turns of Clone Wars II

[Deimos]

MY 2103 to Black Sunrise

[Qantaga]

2102 sent to Deimos.

[Maniac]

MY 2102 to Qantaga

Oh man! Everyone else has two or three bases while I have only one. I hope my base site search pays off on long term...

[Black Sunrise]

2102 to Admiral Yamamoto

"Sir. Bad news."

"Christ. More. Tell me."

"Sir, while we have found prime locations for cities, with abundant resources, the resources are totally blocked by native plantlife. Our colonists cannot get any advantage from it.'

"Scuttle the pods. Use them to form the hulls of two new cities. I will direct our researchers to find out how to remove the fungus. Meanwhile, operation Terra is to begin immediately. I suspect my fellow leaders from the mis-named 'Unity' will have a particular .... blind spot. I anticipate exploiting it to buy us the time we need."

"Right away Sir! That pod we located should serve us well in that regard."

Admiral Sunrise gazed at the map, the conversation clearly over. This world has so few edges, he thought quietly. Perhaps that could be used ....
Pondering strategy, he peered thoughtfully at twinkling lights of the map. Like constellations, guiding our way in the darkness. But the darkness was the darkness of a secret headquarters, and the constellations were diamonds scattered by his own hand.

[Deimos]

MT 2102 to Black Sunrise

[Qantaga]

Thanks for the tip, M@ni@c!

2101 sent to the Valkyrie.

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Ah, the salt air, the warm sea breezes....we are at home at last. The last 40 years, confined in that infernal spaceship, were torment. We now sail the seas again and the path of our destiny can be resumed.

[Maniac]

You can customize the names of your faction in-game in the NETWORK menu I think. I think you also get there by pressing on + The graphics of course you can't change in game of course, but none of them fit a Norse style anyway.

Almost forgot: MY 2101 sent.

[Black Sunrise]

2101 to M@ni@c

After a harrowing crash "landing", Admiral Sunrise surveyed the fleet from the deck of his craft.

Five craft. Not an auspicious beginning. It would be worse yet after scuttling at least one to found new bases.

"Thank Saint Nimitz we're the first ones down."

He looked up at the sky, gauging wind speed. Near the double sun he ... saw ... something ....

"Damn. Contrails. So much for our head start. Lets get to work."

[Qantaga]

Why didn't you guys just customize your faction?

Because I have no clue how to customize a faction. I love playing the game, but I know nothing about customizing factions and creating scenarios. I hope to learn about them someday soon, but I like spending my time playing.

I do realize that they are all the same clones of the Pirates, but it is fun to role play and I just figured that it would be a little more fun for me to play a faction with a cool name, if no one else objected.

OT - Deimos, I haven't been able to check my e-mail today. I work with curriculum and remediation software programs. I am in a school today and their ISP allows me to access Apolyton, but bans me from accessing my e-mail, so it will be later tonight, when I get home, before I will know if I got the other game turns.

[Maniac]

Why didn't you guys just customize your faction? Besides name and graphics, they're all practically the same anyway?

I'm going off line now. Turns sent to me now won't be played until tomorrow.

[Deimos]

I must issue a most humble appology for causing this restart.

I had sent our most glorious CMN a request for the Valkyrie faction well before he issued the game start notice, but due to the fact that my email provider decided to hold all of my outbound mail for what appeared to be a non-trivial number of hours on thier server, the message didn't make it to him in time.

When he sent out the turn with me as the Nautilus Pirates, I was disheartened that my message didn't make it to him in time, but I was just happy to begin the game.

Thanks to all for hanging on through this restart! As to the endless supply of ec's for all, I'll be more than glad to ensure you receive all the credits you can handle from commerce income!


OT: Qantaga: Have you received the turns I resent for the other games we are involved in yet?

[Googlie]

Request accommodated, so ignore the restart I just e-mailed you

Turn order will now be:

Black Sunrise - Nautilus Pirates (who has waited patiently to play his turn)
M@ni@c - Pack Armada
Qantaga - Mariners Guild
Deimos - Valkyrie Rising

CW2 - 2101 sent to Black Sunrise

G.

[Qantaga]

Ah, yes, the little known Valkyrie factor rears its head.

I certainly have no problem surrendering the helms of the Valkyrie to the good Captain Deimos. However, since we are restarting, if there is no objection from M@ni@c or Black Sunrise, I would like to try one of the clone factions myself, instead of taking the Nautilus Pirates. (With the Mariner's Guild as a first choice).

This is no big deal at all and I will happily take the Nautilus Pirates if that is the way Googlie sets us up, I just wanted to put in a request for a clone faction if possible.

[Googlie]

Restart Needed

Game being recalled for a restart

Due to a little known norselore bug (the Valkyrie factor) the game needs to be restarted.

(actually, Deimos is a huge fan of Norse mythology and has promised an uneding supply of energy credits to his fellow players if we can restart with him playing as the Valkyrie. While this could be accomplished by Deimos and Qantaga simply changing turns, D would then know where Q was, so a restart is better.

Googlie

[Black Sunrise]

"Sir, we must evacuate"

Explosions rocked the mother ship. Panicked settlers hurried quickly to the escape pods. Red lights threw demonic shadows upon the walls.

"What of the map?"

"Sir, the transmission is garbled... I can't understand it."

"Check the seismic probe, quickly. That dropped first, perhaps it got a picture."

"Sir, I've got a picture of where the probe hit, but only for a hundred miles around target."

"Board the ship. We'll land there. At least we'll have a slight idea where we are."


As he followed his crew to the departing shuttles, Admiral Sunrise rubbed the starburst pattern on his jumpsuit thoughtfully. A large water world. Interesting. Pity about the nasty mix of gasses, we won't be able to breathe the air, but on the other hand, our ships are self-contained. We should be able to survive very well.
Damned shame the sabotage cost us so much. Fortunate that we managed to "acquire" access to several drop shuttles.

Smiling coldly, Admiral Sunrise stepped over the body of a Believer 'Crusader'. The new world will be better without them he thought for a moment. Then, buckling himself in, he turned his attention to the Planet below.

The future awaits the strong.