The Reign of Emperor Starlifter the First begins in 3200 BC
Scribes have be assembled to document the reign for the ages....
3200 The Emperor ordered shield production held at 3 to enable switch to Trireme on the turn Map Making is discovered
3150 Moved NONE archer into capital for Defense
3100 Intense flogging of the wise men resulted in an delivery of
Map Making; The Kingdom needs a basic
Code of Laws (to get
Monarchy ASAP); Immediate production change from Settler to Trireme is ordered... floggings ensure prompt compliance.
3050 Trireme #1, the Empire's first Naval vessel, has been launched with our only Phalanx & elite NONE Settler. Admiral Starlifter has ordered an exploration and preparation of the lands to the east for colonization, and with more floggings, the crews promptly set sail in the direction of the rising sun. The sheer brilliance of Admiral Starlifter made the Empire believe the sun Rises and Sets at his command; Starlifter proclaimed immortal when the Phalanx goes ashore and discovers a rich system of rivers an hills, and the Trireme discovers a magnificent black beast in the waters to the south. As the recently flogged crew was scared and also in pain, their incessant wailing caused the Trireme captain to name the beast a wail. The first mate, realizing Emperor Starlifter would take this as an insult and flog the crew again, convinced the captain to change the name to "whale". So let it be recorded, hereto and forevermore.
On the home front, the ever demanding Emperor Starlifter almost doubled Production by demanding an output of 5 shields, and science cut from 3 to 2... the beaten wise men needed a break anyway. Now a new Settler will be produced in 8 turns. The crew of the trireme is ordered to explore the eastern lands, and determine the contents of the oceans, yet arrive back in the capital with exactly two squares of movement remaining on the turn the settler is produced. The crew complies, and charts a course.
3000 Phalanx moves up river and finds wine; The Phalanx is flogged for discovering swamps in the river, however. The elite NONE Settler builds road on Grassland shield, and will spend the next 4,000 years attending to the needs of the new land.
2950 Trireme finds fish on southeast shore, the crew eats heartily this night.
2900 The new land appears to be but an island.
2850 No riches were found, and the crew expects a flogging upon their return.
2800 The trireme found new Island to north; their glee can scarcely be contained, as this will surely avoid the Emperor's flogging.
2750 Return to Capital for new settlers that will soon be complete
2700 A great road is cut thru first northern hill.
2650 The capital produced Settlers exactly on schedule, and these will found City #2 immediately, and make some more to found city #3; The NONE settler has been ordered to construct a road thru the Wine Hills, which will serve both escape and defense. The hills will be mined, and later, the grassland shields irrigated.
2600 Utica is founded on river bend, and will become the Empire's SSC. The king had intended to call it "Starlifter", but a promise of the city to double the empire's science output allowed the city to keep the less glamorous name of Utica, which sounds more like a prison than a city. Nevertheless, Utica is destined to become the most mighty city in all the world, and will one day produce 77 base trade arrows, which is 14 above a full sized standard city. No city will wallow in more gold. And no expense will be spared for Utica... the Emperor has proclaimed that Utica will never complete an improvement from scratch... all improvements will be RB'd or PRB'd. A rapid series of edicts follow in a flurry: 3 trade routes will be established with PRB'd caravans. Utica shall never produce a settler unless stuck at size 12. A Republic will be established as soon as possible, and Utica will be grown to Max size, no matter what the cost in Luxuries. Though Utica can reach a maximum size of 35, it will likely achieve 32 to one day reach the holy grail of production: 80 shields, providing a hill is one day erected by engineers in a river non-shield grassland, though infernal swamps now infest this fertile area. The first steps in the SDI defense have been taken... The capital and Utica are only three squares apart, and will share an SDI if the rest of the world progresses to nulcear weapons, thus saving 200 shields, or about 380 gold.
In the midst of this important year, Emperor Starlifter has ordered the immediate construction of a great wonder: A gigantic image of a man, which will be named Colossus, because in a slightly inebriated slurring of a question by the King ("Whass our co...losses... ohn this pr..."). What he meant to say was "What are our company's losses on this project"), but the citizens of the kingdom, fearing a flogging, mistook his slurred speech for naming the wonder the "CoLosses", which became know as the Colossus in the fullness of time.
2550 Trireme exploring to the northwest; a new island is found; beatings are postponed!
2500 The Emperor's harsh rule is resulting in science every 7 turns, using fish in capital.
Code of Laws will be discovered in 2 turns, perhaps less... then
Monarchy (or possibly
Writing, Literacy, early Republic). If this map proves to be watery, an early goal might be Marco Polo's, AI tech seeding/jumping, Michelangelo's, and fast advancement to Navigation. As the Emperor surveys his new lands, he firmly proclaims that sufficient terrain has now been discovered to support 6 good cities and ascend into the heavens by the mid 20th century! The kingdom rejoices, but the Emperor Starlifter I dies a sudden death after severing an artery in his flogging arm while beating a gladiator who was holding a sword. It is rumored that Gladiator may some day rise to lead the empire.
37 gold in Treasury, expended zero.<br />-----
End Reign of Starlifter I ------
A scribe's scratchings depicting the known lands of the Emipre:
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Better catch up before you're in the dust. Muahahaha!
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