It's only a matter of time, really. Just look how far we've come! Have a look at our old nemesis M5-35, will you?
Yeah, that personality explains a lot. Technologists like him can really get out to a big lead ... but he's not the only technologist in this galaxy! And as for his erratic personality ... well, we've noticed he seems to declare war and request peace seemingly at random, haven't we? But check out that technology! Sure, we're a couple generations behind in weapons and construction, and one behind in Planetology, but we're at computer parity with these guys! And we're actually a tier ahead in Propulsion technology! In fact, it looks like they went back for some outdated tech in propulsion for some reason - sort of the way we did in Weapons and Planetology. I wonder why they did that. Huh. Can't be too important. Trilithium Crystals? Range ... wait ... range 10?!
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Haha, quite a scare I had last year when I found out about that Trilithium, but our spies just stole the Meks' Mark 5 computer technology, and I'm not really worried that they'll attack me. I mean just because they have the range.....
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You know, I did mention that I thought their ships were moving around at warp 5+ already, didn't I? Because clearly I was right. That thing's due at Toranor before this time next year, I have practically nothing out there, and ... um ... that's a pretty deadly-looking incoming starfleet. Oh, and if you haven't seen the scan of them I took a few years ago, wait 'til you see what those Tornado dreads are packing.
Fortunately, I've been building up defenses-in-potential: Running industry at Galos forever to build up reserves, prebuilding huge ships around the empire whose components can be split up into large fleets of smaller ships ... it may look like I'm defenseless, but it's not as bad as you think! Let's see what I can do about that fleet!
Nothing I can fit on a fighter is going to scratch the paint on their ships, so the BlazeWing 6 Destroyer will be the mainstay of my fleet. I need to max out its battle computer, even including a battle scanner, just to hit their fast-moving ships successfully, but get enough of these heavy blast cannons into space and I can do some serious damage to their fleet. Meanwhile, only one of the stars near Toranor has enough prebuilt materials to finish an actual dreadnought in time, even with help from the reserve, so we'll have to hope that one will be enough! Against all those Meklar dreads ... I'm just not sure.
At least its repulsor beam should keep their enormous fleet of bomb-laden cruisers away from the planet and its bases. I'm crashing up as many as I can there - bringing it up to eleven - with maximum reserve spending! For Toranor! For the Alkari!
I just hope I don't mess this up! ... (Wait, what's that circled fleet doing? They're attacking Xengara too?!)
Ulp...
