2518: With Gunsslinger Catwalk following Gunsslinger Maniac's prescedent for early retirement, I asssume the office with pride. My firsst move? A new sship design, of courssssse.
Thiss one's a little sspecial. (It has Zortium only because it was a free upgrade and I don't really care about maintenance cosstss anymore.) Enough of these sshould be able to kill Meklar dreads before they can even move! And I do plan to build lotss and lotsssssssssssssss of them. In fact, I don't think it'ss enough to have Artemissss fighters: I want a bunch of identical Huntressssses too!
2519: More fighters! MORE!!!!!
If you couldn't tell what was going on immediately when my reign began, I'm ssure you ssee it by now. But jusst how good will these fighters prove?
2520: The Klackons have made a grave error: They colonized another planet which appears to be lesssss valuable than the one they had already. I ssend ssome people to invesstigate.
2522: The moment of truth....
...as the Huntressssses strike! They teleport right up to the Guardian in spite of its massive weaponry, and hit it with everything they've got! Then the Artemisssss fighters join the fray!
They teleport in before the Guardian can react!
...and FIRE!!!!
Wow. Um. My colony sship didn't have time to retreat. The Guardian didn't fire a sshot. That was ... a sslight case of
overkill.
...
Good.
The purpose of thiss entire exserscize was to improve our miniaturization levels. We've been doing ressearch too, but it'ss way sslower (or at leasst lesss fun) than thiss.
Oooooh. Inertial Nullifiers! (And Gauss Autocannons and some more computer tech and Death Rays of course.) Cool! Ummmm ... kind of a dissapointing tech haul actually, but sstill, it'ss nothing to ssneeze at.
Oh! And my invesstigators arrived at Crypto - the better of the two Klackon worlds.
Invesstigation complete! The final analyssiss of their other world will have to wait a few more years though. For now, let'ss try to work out ssome more miniaturization.
2523: Okay, thiss sshould help with logissticss at leasst ... depending on what you mean by "help..."
2524: I take a long time to decide our variouss policies. How besst to deal with the aliens now that we bassically own the entire galaxsy? And in the end, there is only one posssible rational descision.
It'ss time to sshow these high-council loonies what Democracy (or at least a Republic) really means!
Will you aliens PLEASE sstop ssquabling for ONE MINUTE and
lissssten?! If you'll jusst pay attention, we'll sshow you the ssecretss of our ssuccsesss as a peaceful, democratic ssosciety! And then we can work on claiming OTHER galaxsies ... together!
(2524 save attached for those who want more fireworks, or just some high-tech toys to play with. I just didn't feel like playing it out, as I have too little time right now and the victory is completely inevitable. The only thing that would slow us down at this point would be interdictors, and the only thing that would stop us would be ... ... um, there really isn't anything, actually.)