Taking that as the Planetary Defense Shield project, not the ship shield upgrade (which you have to pay for all at once).
I did mean that, but now I’ve change my mind. No research in shields please
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Short delay - I think the image is getting too big. I’m going to split off “play areas” from “main map”.
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Right, fleet cards are still on the map, but research projects are not (and research-in-progress has moved to the text dump).
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Just a quick Heads Up: Due to “Imperial Science Academy”, both of my new projects should have 1 Research point on them (from the stockpile, not from my supply).
Thanks!
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Romulan Star Empire, Day 4.
We lost another ship enroute to Rog. I swear if the Imperial Pilot Academy can’t learn how to dodge a basically-stationary asteroid at Impulse speed, I am going to build a row of guillotines in front of the faculty building and start “Creating new job opportunities in the Academic Sector.”
The second ship survived by some miracle, and Rog has been folded into the Empire with little friction. Unrelated side-note: remember to name a new capital city, since the pre-Imperial capital is now a radioactive crater. Space-eggs, space-omelettes.
We also encountered our first civilized (well… loosely civilized) colony. I have ordered the Preceptor to begin cultural exchanges with the hopes that we can achieve peaceful hegemony with this planet. I’ve also had two dozen Tal Shiar agents begin undermining the current government and start small propaganda campaigns while supporting violent rebels already present. They will peacefully join the Empire, or else.
Lastly, the Spinward exploration of the Makar is continuing far more successfully than I had initially thought possible. Scientific progress is progressing, economic resources are flowing… frankly, the only thing that could ruin our recent string of good luck would be a warp-capable empire with its own plans for galactic domination.
But really, that’s basically impossible. We all know we’re alone out here.
End log.
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May we recommend “Unthinking Obedience to the Will of the Emperor”? The old capital to be renamed “Minor Objections to the Imperial Mandate”.
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The cunning bit is that all those player areas are exported automatically because the pastel background has a specific ID tag.
If it would make life easier I can shift current resource piles there too.
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FYI it’s “Research” not “Science”.
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It looks really sharp, Roger! Nice work!
I’ll try to remember about “Research”. Less catchy than “Weaponized Maths”, but accuracy is important.
Quick aside: I only have 4 Production last turn (I will have 6 Production as of this turn, but that Production node on Tau Cygna V wasn’t mine yet).
Please remove one starship from Romulus (so I only built 2 there) to correct.
This also means I had only 1 Culture Production (same reason, curse you Tau Cygna V!), so I will have Zero Culture at the end of this turn (phew! That was closer than I realized).
Sorry about that! Shoulda caught it earlier.
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Off to work again for 8 hours… sorry guys!
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This is where I should probably admit that I’m not particularly a fan of Star Trek the franchise/setting; I mean, I don’t hate it, and I’ve seen most of the series and films, but nor do I love it or re-watch them. But I really do enjoy this game.
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I’m glad you’re enjoying the game!
I, personally, love Star Trek and almost all of its version (Enterprise was like pulling teeth for much of its run, and some of the most obvious and cringey fan-service-near-nudity I’ve ever had to tolerate, and the last few seasons should’ve been better but, almost mystically, managed to get worse… in its defense, it was an awful premise for a show in the first place and they fumbled the ball almost immediately, since Trek is almost always at its worst when it involves any kind of time travel). But I’m not a rabid fan and equally love Star Wars, Firefly, Andromeda, The Expanse, Farscape, much of the new Battlestar Galactica, almost all of Babylon 5, chunks of Space Above and Beyond, Aliens, Fifth Element, Wing Commander… basically, I celebrate all of sci-fi’s catalog.
Well, not all. Much.
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I did like Space:Above and beyond.
Enterprise was interesting. I thought it would be about federation building which was frustratingly only hinted at until the series ended.
I’m a sucker for positive Sci Fi. I’ve recently rewatched The wounded.
Star fleet captain goes rogue, starts attacking Cardassians, threatens open war.
Here’s the resolution.
I can’t think of any other show that could resolve this peacefully.
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It is not the fault of Enterprise that the PR people said “this is a show about the very early days of exploration” when it really wasn’t after the first episode or two, but that was a thing that irked me a lot.
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Ooh, the Romulans are going to regret handing the Feds 3 productivity…
- Federation view: let’s you and him fight
- Klingon view: let’s gang up with the Romulans against the Feds
- Romulan view: let’s you and him fight
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I’m more than happy to turtle.
Less fights means less culture for the Klingons.
(More than happy to trade with Klingons)
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@RogerBW Quick note, there should be a space lane connecting Sherman’s World to the Badlands instead of the Badlands to Tau Cygna V (the ship that left Tau Cygna V traveled via warp to Sherman’s, and then to the Badlands, just to lock up that last warp lane connection).
Thanks!
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