Orodum

Orodum

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The Shadow of Intent dropped out of hyperspace just outside of visual range of Alta Hathuras, the Autumn's Glory close behind. Both ships immediately slammed reverse thrust to maximal to avoid ramming a huge, looming ship in front of them. Tal'anth immediately jumped on the comm link, " This is the Yaarg corp ship Shadow of Intent ! Clear this sector immediately or be fired upon!" The reply came fairly quickly, " Shadow of Inten

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On the bridge of the Shadow of Intent , Tal'anth stood on the raised platform available to the commander of the ship. An officer to his left called out, "DRADIS contacts! Tag as two medium cruisers, one unarmed merchant transport. No IFF beacons active. Visual coming up now... The cruisers are firing on the merchant! They have no flag on their hulls." Tal'anth replied, "Pirates. Sound General Quarters and close at flank speed and open

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I'll be Tal'anth of the Yaarg Corp. He commands the battleship Shadow of Intent and is accompanied by two frigates, who have been converted to act as battleship tenders/tugs (lightly armed, repair/ammunition storage/cargo ships; do not participate in engagements). The Shadow of Intent is a salvaged Athena Stealth Cruiser. the Stealth systems were too damaged to repair, so they instead installed heavy shields. The ship holds a complement of 4500 crew

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HAL was actually driven insane by a programming conflict, and GLaDOS... she was just programmed in a stupid way and being on her own with a primary directive to conduct weapons research on live humans sent her cookoo for cocoa puffs. Sovereign can't be driven insane, as he is "beyond your simple understanding". and he kind of is already "insane", as are the rest of the Reapers.

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i always thought the phrase "no rest for the wicked" meanthat they had to keep working, not wonder what people's opinions on their work was. loljk

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you know what funny? I posted a spoiler in the dictionary and no one even noticed. that'll show you not to read the dictionary. rofl (I know it's short, but i'm back to a transition. next time we will be seeing Sgt. Nichols and crew) _____________________________________________________________________ “Heth?” Katrikkan said, recognizing the visitor, a female Commodore. “Yes, Katrikkan, it’s me. It’s been eleven turns since we met last, I think, b

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relating to auto-join: ships about to autojoin fleets in a grav well where there's two+ fleets will select the most appropriate fleet. i.e. (my usual setup) if you have a main fleet and a carrier fleet (or carrier/flak), any carriers that autojoin a fleet will autojoin the carrier fleet. any other ships will join the normal fleet

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I suppose... but wikiquote.org is a good place for them. [note: the names have been changed to protect the innocent] Dave: We live in America, so we speak American! paige: We speak English and we don't live in England! blonde girl: Just because someone lives in China, it doesn't mean they speak Chinese!

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I've faced off against... 4 or 5 interstellar empire at once as I tried to expand beyond my solar system, which had three AI allies in it who were dedicated to their own affairs. at the end of THAT one, I had 6 billion creds, 2 million of each mineral, lol. and maxed research and ships. (21 hours, huge random map)

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can't drive an AI insane. esp. when you can't talk to it (shields don't let matter through, so that means no sound passes through. and indoctrination is one-way

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excuse me, I mean Sovereign in the first one. accidentally typed the wrong name

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IMHO, it would be more realistic and more... enjoyable if a compromise between the two sides was used (static income reduction vs. purely reactive income reduction) a base static reduction (the "union workers") would remain the same when at one research level (maybe the ability to lower the level at a cost) but there would also be a reactive variable (food/air/water/repairs/materialsf for repairs/ammo) that is added on top of the static cost. i.e.: lvl 1 resear

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yes, it's up to nine players. a tip: jump through and take some planets through the wormhole. esp. if it looks like you're losing in that system. once you're through, it becomes a chokepoint that is easily defended. oh, and [quote]i.e. if you are playing against 9 A.I. and you take the right planets, im sure you could organise to have to defend against all 9 A.I.s at once, though it wouldnt be a good idea because then defense would be just about impossible, as you wouldnt have enough shi

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okay. beams szad onto Saren, into a padded cell surrounded by an anti-immortality and anti-teleportation shield. *three weeks go by* Szad is now completely slaved to Saren's bidding, and is nearly mindless. and now looks like this:

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can't teleport to an object within phase space. and Scotty doesn't teleport. he "beams". can't beam onto an object in phase either. "For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake you just keep on trying to you run out of cake and science gets done and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive."

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