Solari Empire Update
2061: We've established communication with the aliens who arrived at Sol through the Ross 248 gate. They keep sending surveyors, and we've been shooting them down. They've begun sending ~10,000 ton warships and we've been bringing those down too. Analysis of the wreckage indicates that this stuff is extremely primitive. Once we find their homeworld, we expect it'll be a nice opportunity to use up our stockpiles of older-generation munitions.
Our first internal-containment powered civilian ships are now in service. The first ICF warships are still about a year and a half away. These will move at 10,000kps, a big gain over the current ships which move at 6,000. Usually I do 8,750 with the first generation of ICF warships, but this time I did fuel 0.3 first which made it possible to use a higher power setting and still get acceptable fuel costs. (Our doctrine calls for 16,000-ton warships to do at least 20 billion km on 1 million liters of fuel.)
We're up to around 40 systems explored. No additional sightings of the Swarm, and still absolutely no trace whatever of the Precursors. I've double- and triple-checked that we've got these boxes enabled.
