neilkaz
King
Harv, you see to be in good shape here and your game has gone differently than my 1 play from your save. I won't give too much detail and certainly won't tell you where Orion is, but noting that you have an army of spies and are concerned about Orion, I suggest that you expand your area of explanation with a string of outposts unless you're are war with someone and can't manage that.
I'd suspect that some of those Human or Darlok systems have something that can take an outpost. You also may meet some AI's from across the map who you can victimize with your spy army. You took Cyber Security rather than EMG so you'll need some big powerful weapons to kill the Guardian and quite a few ships.
I've played countless Impossible Pre-Warp vanilla games and only once did an AI take Orion in less than 300 turns. That was when the Saks were a total run away civ and had over 40% of the galaxy and took it about turn 292. I've seen Orion left alone for me to take a bit atter turn 330. Scratch's mod is different in that races start with some basic techs and leaders all give a tech and everyone is Warlord..ie clearly faster to get bigger higher tech fleets into battle and thus, they aren't afraid to go after Orion.
I'd suspect that some of those Human or Darlok systems have something that can take an outpost. You also may meet some AI's from across the map who you can victimize with your spy army. You took Cyber Security rather than EMG so you'll need some big powerful weapons to kill the Guardian and quite a few ships.
I've played countless Impossible Pre-Warp vanilla games and only once did an AI take Orion in less than 300 turns. That was when the Saks were a total run away civ and had over 40% of the galaxy and took it about turn 292. I've seen Orion left alone for me to take a bit atter turn 330. Scratch's mod is different in that races start with some basic techs and leaders all give a tech and everyone is Warlord..ie clearly faster to get bigger higher tech fleets into battle and thus, they aren't afraid to go after Orion.