I am playing as Halis, the Halian Empire is what I renamed it, on epic speed, noble difficulty, no barbarians, no missles from space stations.
Prologue:
Once America established the first planetary colony, and recieved a huge number of machines of war from the colony's large factories, it conquered the Earth. No other nation could stand before the resources of an entire planet. And so the People's Democracy of Earth was born. For over 300 years it grew and colonized. With this, oppression of the colonies grew too. No communication, no transportation, no trading; unless there was PDE approval. Then, in January, 2302, a strange alien vessel approached the system. Devoid of inhabitants, it had a crew of one ancient, but advanced, alien computer.
The reason for this was: eons ago, before humans, there were many alien reces in the galaxy. They were advanced and had few wars. One day, over some unknown dispute, a great war of unrivaled proportions erupted. fleets destroyed fleets, ships murdered billions of inhabitants on planets. One alien race developed a weapon of total annaliation. A single, enormous ship. It traveled across the galaxy, killing every single being.
Finally, having completed its mission, it returned to its home system, but it passed through radiation clouds on the way. Its program became corrupted, from "Destroy our enemies" to "Destroy all life". The vessel killed its creators, and lurked around the galaxy, killing species for eons.
Colonies had gone dark at times. This was attributted to a failed colonization attempt due to a barren planet, not a genocidal alien ship. Then the vessel approached Earth. By now, its program had become even more distorted, it was now: destroy all star syatems (the words enemies, star syatems, and life were closely related in the aliens' language).
It approached the sun, and fired. The sun exploded, destroying the entire system. A large anomnity appeared, pulling in everything around it; more than even a black hole could. The vessel was pulled in, and crushed. Later, many smaller ships came; they too were pulled in. Then nothing came. With nothing to feed on, the annomnity dissolved and dissappeared. So ended the Earth, leaving the colonies for themselves. Most starved, a few survived.
Halis was one of the colonies that survived, due to its strong government. Immediately the leaders decided to pursue an ideology of survival to guide them in the future.
In March, 2304, a comprehensive philosophy of surviving in the empty reaches of space was developed. The state, and the population, embraced it.
To keep the idea of humans being the only species left in the galaxy, I will say that this (and future free colonies) are just small colonies that know that they cannot make it on their own.
Halis had found damaged destroyers in werkage left by the PDE, not having the ability to construct their own, the government took the damaged vessel and repared it as best as could be done. Even still, destroyers were impressive ships. So when one went into orbit around the Aestoria system, the small colony there begged to join Halis. Halis' leaders, hoping to create a large empire, accepted.
Next, a colony that did not make it was located. Exploration parties found the secrets to technologies previously withheld from Halis.
This happened many times, I did not get a screenshot of each time.
With much celebration and cheerfulness, the colony of Halipha was founded. Although it was not the first colony acquired by Halis, it was the first founded. Learning from the PDE's mistakes, the colonies were not colonies in the old sense of the word, but disperced parts of one civilization: citizens had equal rights, and were not exploited (any more than those on Halis anyway)
Upon arriving at the Turnalis system, the scout ships found a colony suffering from famine, due to insufficient grain supplies as a result of a poor harvest. The scout ships used their food supplies as a means of convincing the colony to join the Halian Empire.
In June, 2307, Halis met its first organized and centralized rival: the Brotherhood, led by Lukas von Reuther. Peace was made, as war would weaken both sides at this time.
December, 2307, was the completion date of a large complex on Halis. It was designed to shelter the empire's people from harm should the need arise-ships would bring the citizens from other planets and systems. As a result, everybody who wanted to have a spot on the complex paid a portion of his/her income, in addition to taxes.
Seeing the need for greater research abilities, the Halian government restructured itself. Such radical changes could be made easily due to its organizational capacity.
In December 2308, the AstroTech corporation/government was encountered. It had a policy of knowledge, which many Halians found strange: how can one pursue knowledge if there is not enough food to last the next day?
When the Halian ships arrived at the Creeste system, they found a colony in anarchy: citizens rioting, looting, and all around chaos. The ship's captain decided to step in: he sent down soldiers; with orbital support, and reestablished order, with Halis in control of course.
Not willing to commit Halis to a pacafistic or traditional military policy, the government decided that light ships, like destroyers and the larger cruisers, would be sufficient to make Halis a strong military power.
The distant colony of Jurani was contacted in October, 2309. The people adopted a pacafistic lifestyle. The captain of the destroyer took advantage of this, and used force to bring them into the Halian Empire. He made the excuse:
If we did not conquer them, who would? Somebody far worse I tell you.
The captain was dismissed from service, but the colony was retained.
ontact was made with the New Earth and Avower colonies. Both of which desired peace; although the New Earth-ites were overly fond of money in the eyes of many Halians.
Smotala was the second colony founded by Halis. Although it only had 2 colonies, Halis was a large and strong nation thanks to its use of space wrekage and taking over of smaller colonies.
The Red Syndicate was encountered in January, 2311. Halis' leaders did not trust them, as they had started as a trading organization that conquered a colony. Some thought that their traders would do the same to Halis, but few took them seriously.
Halis continued to grow. It could afford many new colonies due to the large amount of income taken in for the Survival Shrine. Uighan was founded in February, 2312.
The colony of Paradise was contacted in August, 2312. The leader, Leonard Pritchard, was eager for peace and cooperation, and peaceful terms were established.
The Office of the Auditor General was constructed in the Turnalis system, in order to act as a secondary capital in order to increase government efficiency.
A mechanized workforce was also implemented, in order to increase produstion. Many were annoyed about being replaced by machines.
There is a typo, it should say +1
in 6 Largest Cities, it is implemented in the cities correctly though.
Halis continued to grow. New colonies brought wealth to Halis, and prosparity to its people. New colonies sprung up constantly. This time was so prosperous, that it is considered to be a golden age. The start being marked by the completion of the National Epic of Halis.
Increased trade was established with the Paradise-ites. Military passage was also included in the treaty as a sign of trust.
Monumental construction projects arcoss the Halian Empire displayed its brillance to the world. It was the envy of other empires.
Evidence showed that The Brotherhood had colonized a system that Halis had its eye on. This was considered an outrage by the government, which had left a drone in the system claiming it for Halis. A mility responce began to be planned. The era of peace was over. Halis had a colony to take, and an empire to bring down.
. There is no movie for the SDI, so I took the picture there.
to manage from having (at least) 2 shrines, and (I think) 2 corporations.
