Turn 263, a Great Scientist, Alan Turing, is recruited! He triggers an eureka for computers and a random modern era technology.
We also recruit a Great Merchant, Mary Katherine Goddard. She gives us +1 level of visibility in all civilizations!
Turn 265, I decide that Japan is a menace to the world. She needs to be....protected from herself:
This is all for democracy, of course. So the next turn we go democratic baby!
Osaka falls on turn 267:
The next turn, Nagoya falls:
Yet another turn, and the Japanese capital Kyoto falls:
The puny rests of the Japanese Empire lies a bit to the east, so I have to redeploy.
Next turn, Brazil denounces me.
Turn 271, Sendai falls:
Turn 274, a lot happens. First, we get a Great Engineer. Alvar Aalto gives +1 appeal to all tiles owned by the city he is activated in.
Then, Okayama, the last vestige of the Japanese, falls. Japan is no more!
Turn 277, Albert Einstein joins us. He triggers one random technology and provides +4 science from universities.
Turn 281, 1820 AD, and Baghdad has finished the first spaceport of our civilization! Cairo is 10 turns behind. The Earth Satelite Project, the first step required to reach Mars, is started.
Somehow, there's still natives to be met. My submarine finds Russia on turn 287!
Turn 291, another spaceport - this time in Cairo - is finished!
Turn 294, 1846 AD, we finished the tech tree. Now it's only future tech ad infinitum left...
We need Uranium for......defense. As such, we settle in the north a new city; Ar-Raqqah:
This enables us to upgrade our tanks to modern armor!
Turn 297, 1852 AD, we launch our Earth Satelite! We start on the project Moon Landing. This will take 23 turns with the current output of our city.
We also get a Great Merchant in our realm, Levi Struss. He grants 2 jeans, a unique luxury.
We also start on Project Ivy, to be able to create thermonuclear devices. For safety, of course.
Turn 300, we get a Great Scientist; Janaki Ammal. He gives 400 science for adjacent and present rainforests.
We also get a Great Admiral; Franz von Hipper. He gives a free Battleship with a promotion, or movement and combat strength if not retired.
Turn 309, we get a very important Great Engineer; Sergei Korolev! He provides 1.500 production towards space race projects! This means our Moon Landing happens on this turn!
Work can thus start on the Mars projects. Baghdad starts on launching the Mars Reactor, with Cairo starting Mars Habitation the following turn, when thermonuclear bombs are finished.
Turn 318, Erwin Schrödinger, the Great Scientist, joins us. He gives an eureka on 3 random technologies. We have all available technologies and are merely renewing future tech, which gives more score. So we go for score!
We also get a Great General, Samori Touré. He instantly creates an infantry unit with a promotion.
Turn 325, 1904 AD, the Mars Reactor is launched! Mars Hydroponics, the last piece in the science victory, is started.
Same turn Emily Dickinson joins us. This Great Writer gives our civilization two Great Works of Writing.
Turn 332, we get a Great Artist. Jang Seung-Eop gives two Great Works of Art.
Turn 333, a Great Merchant, Jane Drew, joins us. She gives +3 amenities and +4 housing for her resident city.
Next tur, the second to last Mars module is sent into space!
Turn 336, Masaru Ibuka, a Great Merchant, joins us. He gives +10 tourism to all industrial zones.
Turn 339, we get a Great Musician, Liu Tianhua. She gives two Great Works of Music.
Turn 345, 1925, we win a science victory!
The turn before, the core of my empire looked like this:
And our final score:
And thus ends our tale.
