I see our author has gone all posh with a separate comments thread, presumably just to make block quoting chunks of each chapter that little bit more inconvenient when replying?
Fortunately in the 21st century we have multiple browser tabs technology which makes this inconvenience trivial to overcome, if perhaps one could still hope for even better technology than what this ancient forum offers us. Still, to ease the discontent of the masses I shall provide the main topic quote tag in the OOC context for those who value such finer details in life as appropriate quote headers.
In any event I have now caught up with the Second Chronicle and I am distraught at how far the Legion has fallen, six months and several posts in and no-one has been served light refreshments! Some would argue that Legion doctrine demanding the use of TN minerals in their light refreshments was a mistake, but these people have never had Sorium-enhanced Tea so can safely be ignored. These are dark days indeed.
Very much so. We all shall eagerly await the return of BritCo to this fine board.
The wider setting looks fun, while a mineral constraint is not particularly new in Aurora that constraint being a lack of actual reserves (as opposed to not enough mines/too many factories) is not something I've seen before. Also the idea of their being elements of Lost Tech is interesting, lots of tough decisions about when to risk an irreplaceable unit lie ahead which should make for some tense conferences, made all the more volatile by the lack of light refreshments. 
I'm interested to see how it turns out, as it will be a serious race against the clock to get facilities and colonists to work them into position before supplies run out in the home system. With such very limited support from jump tenders and stabilization ships I am genuinely unsure how things will turn out, although if Alpha Centauri has sufficient minerals that factor may not be too bad to deal with in another year or so. And of course the new spoiler race will be a wrench in the works as well, the Legion has enough naval tonnage including Lost Tech ships to make a good fight of it but getting anything larger than a light cruiser through most jump points will be a long time in coming.
With this, we now provide more fuel for the commentary fire, as once more we see that another update is upon us.
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OOC CommentsQuote tag for Chapter II:
[quote author=nuclearslurpee link=topic=13094.msg162412#msg162412 date=1663436364][/quote]This finishes year 4100 and it only took two updates, truly one wonders what the world is coming to. As some commenters have surmised, the early discovery of Alpha Centauri did throw a wrench into my plans, thus more custom setup ensued and while it did not take quite as long as the initial game setup I will say that rebuilding systems from scratch is a slow and occasionally painful process. The resulting Alpha Centauri system should, I believe, be an accurate match for the one in vol. I of the Chronicles, aside from of course mineral distributions and some minor details such as the exact asteroids or the climate on some planets and moons. Of course the eccentricity of orbits was not in 1.12 but no one should mind too much.
Let us all take a moment of silence as we remember the poor suffering people of Alpha Centauri-B II, forced to live so many decades with no light refreshments to punctuate their fraught existence. Truly a tragedy on a scale never before seen in history. As for the instigators of this tragedy, well, they shall remain the subject of reckless speculation for now...
