Meet? No, not quite; I've never bothered communicating with Diedre despite her repeated requests - I went directly to vendetta!
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I've taken four of her cities but only two were of sufficient size to be spared. Her stronghold - two cities in the Uranium Flats - stands, shielded by an insurmountable mass of Garrisons. Don't worry, with the advent of the
Missle Launcher (I'm researching Synthetic Fossil Fuels), you'll be able to take them out with infantry.
Anyhow, though I'm not as creative as Hippo, I'll probe a little more deeply into the results of fifty arduous turns:
The Spartans have SOLE access to a large but fungus-covered continent (the Believers, thankfully, terraformed the nice coastal areas). One square across the channel is a shore. If you traverse the entire thing, you find the Gaians.
Due to problems with drones spawned from inefficiency, I invoked Green economics. I don't need populations larger than three, anyway.
I am working on two Secret Projects: the Command Nexus and Empath Guild. I will replace the latter with the Citizens' Defense Force as soon as its available.
My navy is restricted to two Transport Foils. The Gaians are bombarding the coast with a lone Skimship, but it is having no effect.
Around the lake on the main continent are several close cities. Around them, in the former Believing area, is a ring of fungus. If those cities grow too large, their spheres of influence will overlap.
The Spartans are the largest, strongest and most technologically advanced faction on Chiron. Problem is, though there are no more than five urban improvements within my cities, the land is hard to terraform and couldn't build the Weather Paradigm - so I'm having energy problems. Spartan reserves are procured mainly from the spoils of war.
The Gaians verilly have at least two cities out of range to the southeast. They occasionally send across a Synthmetal unit from that direction, the cornerstone of their army. I would’ve acted, but all of my two-move speeders are damaged for the time being.
The Uranium Flats is the key. The Gaians have pre-terraformed it, and I believe that its ready to start pumping out Secret Projects.<br />---
GOOD LUCK, ALL! Reiterating, I will upload it tommorrow.
[ September 14, 2001: Message edited by: bvd ]</p>
