What's going on in your empire/planet/battlefield?

[blue emu]

Unfortunately, spoiler tags don't seem to work in signatures, so I had to delete it.

Can't seem to hide the image with spoiler tags, either... so I just linked to it instead.

[scoopdjm]

Blue emu, don't worry about it. If anything your 'spoiler' sig makes me want to explore more

[Jacob/Lee (OP)]

Started a new game, sent a geosurvey ship over to Wolf 359 to look for minerals. A month after arriving, some strange aliens came out of nowhere and swarmed them with 30 or so thermal sig 160 ships and destroyed it with kinetic/energy weapons. Welp, time to focus on missile tech and blow the smeg out of them a few years from now.

[scoopdjm]

Lol, I just had a task group vanish into a spatial anomaly (accidentally deleted it)

[Waffles]

All my scientists and officers seem to be having health issues and I've lost about three officers already on the same team on the same bloody asteroid while they were out in the rings gaining some experience. I swear, Asteroid #2 is a death maze or rock and minerals.

[Atlantia]

I discovered two alien races adjacent to a system adjacent to one of mine. That is, 3 races have a no-man's land between them, and I think they're both at war. It's my first time having successful contact with aliens, and I'm favouring the one with better DR. Finishing up my first battle fleet and I'll send it to no-man's land to keep order, and possibly attack the other aliens if I feel like causing trouble.

[scoopdjm]

Force them to cooperate and turn them into the inter-stellar version of Korea.

[Zed 6]

All my scientists and officers seem to be having health issues and I've lost about three officers already on the same team on the same bloody asteroid while they were out in the rings gaining some experience. I swear, Asteroid #2 is a death maze or rock and minerals.

Darn Redshirts

[Jacob/Lee (OP)]

I have no idea how to create decent military ship designs. If I was in that position, I'd be getting stomped by enemy ships half my tech level.

[OAM47]

I must say, I really love how much extra I'm RPing my current game.     Minor spoiler for my Terran Empire fiction, but Earth just had its first resource crisis way ahead of schedule.   I have to wait a few years to even convert more industry to TN tech   I must really be in the mindset, because my first response was to look for who was to blame!    

[Waffles]

And now I'm researching weapons tech and sensors like my life depends on it. First time in this game I leave the first system SO EXCITED

[OAM47]

A character I've made out to be a pompous showboat who nobody likes just boldly led humanity's first extra-solar mission into a blackhole system and got it swallowed up.

[scoopdjm]

Name your first battleship after him when you get to that point. Then have it go through the same system and live (just to rub it in).

[OAM47]

I might do just that.  The thing is, the difference is only -500, so the death is agonizingly slow (in fact, technically he hasn't died yet).  In fact, my next designed ship will probably be enough to tackle the system.

[HaliRyan]

How slow is it? Do you have time to build a tractor ship to go rescue them? =D