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    Building Bridges

    Gaians: dataaelous aeolusdata at yahoo.com
    Hive: irgy irgy_ at hotmail.com
    University : Provost Walek alewalek at wp.pl
    Spartans: martin mart7x5 marcin777 at hotmail.com
    Believers : Brother binTravkin ivantravkin at hotmail.com

    Parameters : large planet, all victories, Look First, No Unity Survey, tech stagnation.


    "It is the finding of this tribunal that you are guilty of conspiring to commit mutiny against the legitimate authorities of the United Nations Ship Unity, and you will be refrozen until such time as the colony on Alpha Centauri is well established and can offer the appropriate treatment for you and your followers to be reintegrated into a peaceful society. This Court is now adjourned."

    Five times this sentence was read out, and five groups and their leaders were all put back into suspended animation. The conspiracy uncovered by Nwabudike Morgan, and the tribunals carried out by the Captain, with Commissioner Previn Lal as the chief prosecutor, guaranteed a relatively peaceful and auspicious start to the colonizing efforts in the Alpha Centauri system.
    Official history of the founding of Centauri Colony, 2010 - by Commissioner Previn Lal.

    "Lady Diedre, thank the earth mother you're awake," Laura said urgently as she took off the Oxygen mask. Laura had volunteered to stay on the ship to tend the internees, as the refrozen vicitims of the trumped up tribunals had been euphamistically termed. Maybe that paramilitary nut Santiago, or the authoritarian creep Sheng-Ji Yang had been guilty of it, but Lady Diedre had just been assembling supplies in case the fanatics managed to scrub the mission. She'd been innocent! Laura injected Diedre with a stimulant, bad procedure but they had to hurry.

    Diedre snapped awake, as the uppers coursed through her veins. "What's going on, why am I awake?"

    "Some nutcase follower of Godwinson figured out how to get her loose, and bypass all the security interlocks."

    Diedre got up, noticing the darkened room and the glow of emergency lights. She heard this creaking, and then sheering noise. "What did he or she do?"

    Laura noddeed approval, Lady Diedre always used gender neutral language, no matter what. Laura started dragging her toward the escape pod. "The idiot placed explosives in various critical parts of the ship. When they went off, the emergency evacuation protocol came on, and unfroze everybody."

    Diedre shook her head. She'd set up the security interlocks, but she'd never anticipated someone deliberately destroying the ship to get someone loose. Clever, simple and staightfoward if you were willing to take the risk.

    As she followed Laura her mind wandered, remembering the kangaroo court when they frozed her. She hadn't expected that misogynist Previn to set her up as well for his power grab. She wasn't sure any more who had been in a conspiracy, and who had been set up. Time enough to sort that out when the got to planet's surface.

    They entered the escape pod. Diedre looked around. She walked up to the receiver for the colony's homing beacon, and turned it off. "We aren't going to the main colony, they'll have us in cells before we can climb out. Let's use the emergency lander, set it for auto - secondary site selection. That was put there so if there was an emergency landing, we'd have mutliple landings and a better chance for humanity. Since we know Lal took the best location, this guarantees he won't get his grubby hands on us."

    She felt and heard the emergency seperation charges fire, seperating the pod from the Unity. Down to planet, with the basic survival gear in an escape pod, while all the good equipment was already at the main colony. There had been so much of it! She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but of one thing she was certain. Previn would regret it.
    The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
    And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
    Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
    Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.

  • #2
    Ok we wait for first turn.

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    • #3
      ..hhm.. interesting story..

      Thanx for CMNing Shawn!
      -- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
      -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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      • #4
        looking good : )

        who's got the first turn? I'm guessing it's the Gaians from the story?

        Irgy

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        • #5
          Yeah I think it's a safe guess I'm first. I'm excited .

          Unfortunately I'm at work right now so it'll be a while before I can start :/. I promise you guys the second I'm home is the second I'm booting up my computer.
          Who is Barinthus?

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          • #6
            Ugh, I bet you guys won't like me very much now - I've been unable to figure how to load the save file I got. I kept getting on this loading error message. Emailed Shawn re: this. Open to any ideas although.

            EDIT: this is my first time at PBEMing so it might be something so obvious and duh to you but not to me
            Who is Barinthus?

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            • #7
              It isn't that you've got a different version or something? If the savegame was from a more recent version you'd probably get an error like that...

              Irgy

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              • #8
                Path is Multiplayer\Hotseat-PBEM\Load Multiplayer Game

                If doesnt work, try downloading newest patch from http://www.firaxis.com
                -- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
                -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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                • #9
                  No - it's the CMN's fault, he saved the game in SMAX. Before getting into PBEM all I played was SMAX, so my desktop shortcut is SMAX. I keep accidently clicking and forgetting I'm in the wrong game. Corrected and resent.
                  The worst form of insubordination is being right - Keith D., marine veteran. A dictator will starve to the last civilian - self-quoted
                  And on the eigth day, God realized it was Monday, and created caffeine. And behold, it was very good. - self-quoted
                  Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.
                  Mr. Harley: I'm afraid my people haven't. I'm very sorry… I wish it were otherwise.

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                  • #10
                    Im out for weekend now,my turn will take place next monday
                    -- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
                    -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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                    • #11
                      Chairman Irgy, the ball's in your court now Turn passed.
                      Who is Barinthus?

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                      • #12
                        OK, done my first turn, it all worked I think : )

                        Passed it on to Provost Walek - if you haven't got an email yet let me know

                        Irgy
                        Last edited by Irgy; February 19, 2004, 04:31.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by binTravkin
                          Im out for weekend now,my turn will take place next monday
                          I hope this very long weekends (from wensday to monday) is rare thing not usual.

                          2101 to Spartans.
                          Second load because i forgot the pas, i tryed 3 times and after 4 i hit it and write it somwhere.

                          I have question why i didn't recive email that sombody write here a letter?? In almost all games i play i get inforrmation that sombody write somthing in the thread but not here?

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                          • #14
                            Ok, I'm brand new to PBEMs. How do we negiotate? I mean, I noticed that we have each other's comlinks but that's kind of useless, perhaps? So how do we conduct tech trade, Pact negiotations and so on?
                            Who is Barinthus?

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                            • #15
                              We negotiate via email, in comlink, by phone if you wish or many, many other methods like hmm letter ok ok joking
                              But only when we find or buy contact to otther facions or met it in the game.
                              To be sure that evrything is ok You must change this line in alpha.txt this line is about 2 pages down. You must write 0 istead of 1
                              there is :
                              1, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in net games

                              must be:
                              0, ; If non-zero, humans can always contact each other in net games

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