I expected a situation like this in my own game but relations actually are improving years after the end of the truce. I had sensors in sol off for the last 2 years of the truce to save on interrupts, but that shouldn't really have affected things.....Oh, you mean the score on your side? (or do they actually open trades and consider you friendly or something?) Otherwise, it is kind of misleading, because that score only shows the opinion of your folks about them, which is naturally improving because the other faction has a diplomatic team for you. If you don't have a team for them however, they might be abysmal still, and soon pop. :) (if xenophobia>diplomatic rating)
I sorta wanted to avoid posting here since it would interrupt the flow of the story, instead maybe posting on a comments thread like with Steve's fiction. But since Marc did it already, I guess I'll just say it here:Thank you, I will, and many screens still waiting in storage. :) Don't worry about posting here. As long as it doesn't get totally flooded, it is ok. In the swarm game I made a separate thread, but just because it was more artsy and serious with the story.
Vandermeer, I have very much enjoyed your story so far, just keep doing what you are doing ;D
Quite the enjoyable read but if i may, a bit too long for a single post.I know, and I wanted to cut it as described at the very end in ooc, but then there would have been so much re-editing. I thought it would fit before previewing, because I used to post around 20 screens per post on other topics before, and here I had nearly 30, but merged some too. Well, I will watch the overflow more consciously.