Two things happened of note, and neither one very good.
was the first, though we did get a nice shot in the arm in the cash department so Robotics finished right on time, and that was the second thing, as all of our cities appear to be too far north to build the Space Elevator. I may be misreading the map but near as I can tell after testing Washington, Poverty Point, Chahokia, Mesa Verde and Snaketown, the Elevator cannot be built anywhere in our territory.
Got Laboratories and Security Bureaus up thorough most of the empire and Supermarkets where needed to prevent tipping over into starvation.
But we have a dilemma when it comes to spreading our two Corporations inside our territories - Mining Co will displace Aluminium Co. The hangup appears to be that since the two share a resource (coal) you cannot put branches of both in the same city. So now the question becomes, since we have Aluminium in spades do we trade the science of Aluminium Co for the hammers of Mining? Or just leave the Coporations where they stand? Mining Co is in all the higher production towns IIRC, already.
I did send a couple of Mining Co. executives abroad to Saladin and Charlemagne as both were running Environmentalism and I figured we could use the extra coin while their benefit would be minimal and the franchise fees (added maintenance) just might slow down Charlie's economy.
I got spies into everybody's territory except Joao, and ran counter espionage missions. There were no espionage incidents on this watch, but I am not sure it was the result of the counterspy missions or the added Security buildings.
Set the research course towards the Spaceship Engine, as that is the most expensive part and we need to get building on it soonest. Meanwhile we can build Thrusters and whatever other parts become available along the way to the Engine.
It is going to be a race, as Joao has is working in the parts and has a pretty good lead in parts at this stage.
There is one spy still on a go command into Portugal to run a counter spy mission there. If we have accumulated enough points we may even want to try and steal a tech from him instead (payback time).
Traded Industrialism and Refrigerators to Saladin for Medicine so we could start down the Stasis Chamber path when it suits us.
There is a Prophet leaning on his staff next to Washington. I trust he is the one being saved for a Golden Age as he leans there still.
Why in the world did we found Aluminum Co in Washington? 
However, as I understand it we only need to spread the Corp to a few high-production cities, and only if we don't get any Aluminum, which I highly doubt.
We get another prophet. 
