I had the impression that he was going to play both sides rather than use the AI, but what he was suggesting should still be possible if he had designer mode access.
See this post for details:
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=7592.msg77065#msg77065
Ahh in that case i admire the dedication but i cant bring myself to control more than one empire in Aurora at once ...
Meanwhile :
I've set up 3 faction Earth start between Allies ( me ), Axis and Comintern starting in 1945 ( complete fiction but whatever ).
We all are expanding and stuff and then Allied inteligence scores major victory over Axis one. They steal geological survey data about Berlin system, the first system discovered by the Kreigsmarine survey corps and by extension Humanity...
Problem ?
Its a single star system without even a lousy comet, asteroid or dwarf planet .... -________- great job guys.
EDIT: Aaaand in the next year they "stole" the same "data" from Comintern ... My CIA is retarded i swear to god ..
2nd Edit :
III World War lasted for no more than 3 hours.
Allied navy simply anihilated both Comintern and Axis space navies. While losing 4 Lexington B class Frigates Allied captains manage to destroy more than 3m of commercial tonnage and more than 1m of military tonnage. Axis colonies on Moon and Mars surendered after brief nuclear bombardment, Mars colony has been destroyed afterwards ( just some infrastructure and remains of 4 ground units destroyed by the nuclear fire ) and lunar colonists are in the process of being resettled back to Earth because both of those places are completely devoid of TN minerals and were purely prestige-driven efforts.
Unfortunately there is now huge combined Axis-Comintern fleet closing down on Earth. Allied Earth defence net is really impressive, more than 20 PDC armed with 10 quad Meson turrets each but the missile capability of the incoming ships are unknown.