Metaverse Date: 2185
On a routine mission exploring the metaverse, We came across an anomily which looked unlike anything that we've come across before.
Upon investigation the thing was an egg of somesort. Which when we used our ships scanners to investigate it came alive / hatched if you would like to put it that way..
On hatching I ordered the ship to a safe monitrting distance. the Creature then began to move i n space at a slow speed.. eating space junk which had drifted into the sector from the concrruction of BS11 a proto type starbase bigger than anything which had been built before.
MrSquatty said that it looked like a giant recycling plant.
CheckitOff reconed it looked like a Shark
Spook said that they were both correct.. scanners revieled that that both names were applicable, Spook also came to light with a myth from space farrers of old that they were chased by a creature and were lucky to escape..
The THING.. out there then proceeded into the next sector and cleaned the junk from it too.. and it seemd to grow and glow as it consumed the space debree.. we followed it at a save distance.. noticing that when we got too close it would turn towards us and start comming towards us.. I could see how smaller older space farring ships would not be able to outrun it
Due to the prime Directive we were not aloud intifear with it because it showed inteligence.. however we've not been able to communicate with it.
RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!RED ALERT !!!
Spook "Capt'n the Space Shark has entered the sector where BS11 is.. and apears to be heading towards it.."
Qwerk "Don't worry BS11 is to big for it to consume... but keep an eye on it anyway"
Then the unmthinkable happened... it attacked SB11 .. the first to go was their power.. that THING bombarded them with a beam of somesort.. Squatty summised that it had to be an antimatter beam. The SB never stood a chance.. we tried running interfeerance however it took no notice of us until it had consumed all of the Wreckage.. then it turn on us.. it seemed a lot more powerful now and about twice the size.. it was now bigger than our ship..
Ahoula stated that there were no survivors all 365 crew were dead..
Qwerk "Dam StarFleet Regulations... " but then slumped into his chair.. he thought to himself "what else could he have done.. he couldn't think of anything without endangering his ship.. and compared to the BS his ship would simply be an appatizer"
Qwerk "Spook shoot the hell out of it..."
Spook" Capt'n That would be useless our current weapons arn't strong enough anymore to penitrate the sharks skin"
Qwerk "Suggestions!!!... anyone...." there was nothing to be heard except the ships computer and engines humming..."
Then there was a blast....
Spook "Capt'n the Aft shields are failing..."
Squatty" I'm on it captian.. but we cano' take another hit like that.."
Then it came to me...
CheckitOff can we stay ahead of that THING... far enough away so that it can't hit us.. but that we can get it to follow us...
CheckitOff "ay' ay' capt'n sure can... " and proceeded to do so
Qwerk 'Ahouler Transmit this msg to starfleet... "The Enterpwize requests that a fleet of 15-20 constructors trail our course by 3 sectors"'
Ahouler "capt'n.. looking strangly at her capt'n"
Qwerk "NOW!!!!.. thats an order..." Qwerk looked at Spook.. who in return raised an eyebrow but said nothing
Ahouler" msg sent and they are complying capt'n"
Qwerk "Squatty how long till shields are fully operational again.. I don't want to be on its dinner menu"
Squatty "about 6 hours sir.."
Qwerk "CheckitOff Set course to sector 23,25.. maintain speed"
CheckitOff "But Captian thats in enemy space... and it'll take over 3 Months at our current speed"
Qwerk "Just do it...."
On the way there the constructors caught up with us and as directed stayed 3 sectors back.. the THING following us .. 1 month passed (unlike the TV series it does take time to get where we are going.. we don't have their magic time distilation which they use to make the series  )
Spook "Altarian Sarbase dead ahead sir"
Qwerk " CheckitOff go around to the other side of the Space Station and hold position"
CheckitOff "ay'ay Capt'n.." with a grin that seemed to go from ear to ear...
Spook "Interesting concept Capt'n" going to enemy space stations which are mining and getting the beast to attack them... then I take it that our constructors will then mine the resource when we move off again with the beast in chace.."
Qwerk "Grinning from ear to ear... Rather a unique solution I thought... Why not make the beast work for us.. .. kinda like an unoficial member of starfleet  "
it was successfull.. we eventyually want and conqured 6 space stations like this.. all mining rare resources.. Till the the beast was finaly defeated by a friendly Ship on the way to target number 7
This is a true story.. it did happen.. in my current game... Just going to show that Space Sharks are usefull allies.. there is always a solution if you think about things... and use a little imagination ...
Happy GalCiving
J.T.Qwerk..
(This procedure is now in the Starfleet SOP {Standard operating procedures} and archived for all Friends of StarFleet to use as well..
          
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Nicely done J.T.Qwerk.. Shall we use this as the Empires official thread? It is a little old and I was looking for a place to post my game progress etc.
I was going to offer to create a forum at NeoTech for the Empire to use. 
   
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This is the official thread for The Star Fleet Empire. I will post a link to this thread at my website.
NeoTech Network  Link a sci-fi themed site supporting all of Stardocks products and many other discussions going on..
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no. this is the story thread for Starfleet... the official main thread is Link
You can list both if you like.. and don't forget to like to. starfleet.galciv.org our official empire website... There is no forum on it as I think i like the idea of keeping the forum related stuff to the 2 forums that already exist.. the st_mod forum for talking about the sartrek mod for galciv and this forum on Galciv .. I'll be linking to both on our website along with other StarTrek related sites and GalCiv related Sites ..
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I am also contacting many Star Trek sites. We should have most of them listed in a few more months. I found a lot of Role Playing ST sites that I am setting up affiliate deals with.
I will place a link for your site and the thread on the side bar menu in time. 
Hope to see you stop in at NeoTech sometime. 
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Sounds Great
I do stop by and see how the Star trek mod is going... However I don't have enough time in the day to visit all the forums that i'd like to.. I'm involved in so many.. i've had to drop a lot of them.. most are not even game or star trek related.. which is why I like to keep to One site / interest etc.. which is why I'd like to try and keep and GalCiv talk in these forums..
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It seems many others think this way.. I know what you mean I have a few sites that I can barely handle being involved with and I am home 24/7..
I was hoping that the AP would stir up some Modders to get to work on new mods or at least scenarios.  NeoTech is not going any place.. We are online to stay not a flash in the pan..
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I am playing my first game as evil.. Normally I will be able to bring myself back from evil to at least good. This time I was down to far at 14% now at 27. I am playing with Tolots Omega, Institute and Evil pack mods.
There are only 5 races left including myself. I am struggling to stay in the lead. Playing on a gigantic map on normal. I assume everyone else plays at a higher level? Any tips on playing evil or how you guys manage to get the 40,000+ games? 
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The main tips to maxamizing your score:
1.Select military ewin: ie: deselect all other victory contitions.. note this doesn't mean that you have to go to war... you can still win through Culture bombing.. In fact I never go to war with anyone ever... Its just not the starFleet way (for me anyway)
2.Play with the maximum number of AI players
3. Complete all research
4. Don't end the game prior to 2190 (this is when the penalty of Half score for finishing the game too quckly gets droped)
5. Build As many wonders as you can..
6. when your ships are strong enough.. kill any space sharks or pirates .. this way you can gain military points without going to war
7. Have Fun
Note: it is possible to get 60,000 points playing maso aliance victory on a huge map .. So no need to play on a gigantic map.. this makes for a quicker game as well
DesertFox: the mainthing that I see in your games is that your winning with beyond human.. turn off all victory contitions wqhen starting a new game ..
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Going for Beyond Human is not good? I have all victory conditions on.. I see that is not a good idea. Maso is what level of play?
I normally do not start any wars ever.. It is not my way either.. Thanks for the tips.. I will give it a shot on a huge map next game. This game I am playing now I am kicking butt and taking names.
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researching "beyond human" is good.. for max points research everything prior to winning the game
Thats right.. turn OFF ALL victory Conditions to go for military win... If you have Victory conditions turned on then the first contition that you gain ends the game..
I play with aliance turned on on a huge map with all AI's set at their hardest level and play until atleast 2190 and I have all research done, no space sharks or pirates left, and I don't aly with anyone until I can do it with ALL Ai's at the same time.. otherwise you can be drawn into wars simply by being allied with AI's.. I also build as many 1/galaxy items as possible and also as many trade goods as i can get
to play at maso level place ALL ai's at the hardest level
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The hardest level of play.. I will give it a shot but last time I tried a level harder then normal I got my butt spanked. Next game I will set it up how you describe. I normally play on gigantic maps because I enjoy the expanding abilities.. I am an empire builder something I love about this type of game.. Civ3 attracting me for the same reasons but lacked the game play to match the empire building.
I am playing with the Omega Mod maybe this is making things harder for me.. It changes the entire game which is why I love using it.
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keeping on friendly (at least neutral) terms with ALL ai's is the key to a successfull game unless you like going to war
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I am a lover not a fighter Next game I will try your suggestions.. I should be done with my current game in 1-2 days.
I need to get together a good description of the Empire where might I find the best description that you have written? I will create a link directly to the Empire, forum threads and overview of the Empire at my site. If you have any of the info handy let me know.
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 Oops.. Sorry..  Yeah I did see that.. I was talking about a Recruitment message type of thing..
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Our first official message Link
Or this one posted in a general recruiting thread
(same message)
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Here is an overview of my latest game..
I am a control-N freak.. trying to get the best start possible.. This time I only had to do it twice, saw I had a good size cluster of planets, about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom right hand side.
I had expected to find at least one race in this huge cluster of planets. To my delight and surprise there was none at all. Another shock was that most of the planets were 18+. I finally stumbled onto a race and discovered they were backwards in knowledge. I noticed that I was in 1st place in 7 categories.
I am half way through my game and I am still #1 in about 5-6 areas. I have a saintly morality rating around 75. The only race who likes me is the Torians. The Yor are my competition it seems we keep going back and forth as to who is the most powerful. They have very few worlds so I do not understand really why they can be military dominant.
I am attempting a peaceful mission but it looks like I may have to fend off a few evil races. I will update this later when I progress a litte more.
Not exactly a good story but I tried.
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ALL comunication Channels are now being interupted by unknown means for this specal broardcast from the Metaverse News Network..
MNN: "We now cross live to StarFleet HQ for this Special Occasion.."
music playing is StarFleet's Kult Anthum "StarTrek'n"
(note our anthum is available on our web site..
Link
{FanFare}
Admril J.T.Qwerk: (in his usual disreguard for formality)
"Great Work mate, On a number of areas of contribution to StarFleet and the Galciv Community
In the tale of your game so far ,
In Activle Submitting Games (no matter what the score)
In your forums
In representing StarFleet empire actively in the forums
In Communication with your Emperor Via email
StarFleet is Honoured to have you in its Ranks
We can ask for nothing more...
You are Definatly StarFleet Material
If we could get a few more members being as active in StarFleet we would be in First place"
J.T.Qwerk now stands back and applauds his recently promoted senetor
{Fanfare and StarTrek'n plays again)
MNN: "Well there you have it folks... the newest member of the StarFleet Senete is....umm.... whats his name again...."
From off camera: "Desert Fox"
MNN: thats all for now folks and remember stay tuned to 'Metaverse News Network" for your viewing pleasure.. Up next "Khan... is he still alive or not... and.... How to breakin that Klingon into Civilised Ways of Human Behavour with out breaking their spirit"
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Thanks Captain!
It is now Sept 2200.. The Torians are in the Northeast with the Drath Legion being the small race that I am about to absorb. I am feeding them cash and trading with them in case they wish to surrender themselves hopefully to me.
The Altarians were south of me with a few planets. I was feeding him cash and treating him like Gold, what did he do? Surrendered to the Yor whom they were at War with. I am slamming the Yor with culture they are not that large also in the south.
My only competition in this game is the Arceans. They are slowly absorbing the other races inside their ring of influence. The Korx and Drengin are being absorbed.
I now lead in all areas but production and popularity. I am about 2/3 of the way through my game. Should be submitting it by tomorrow if all goes well.
Crossing fingers this is a 30,000 score at least.
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Thanks Aww Nuts..
I am possibly looking at some major problems from the Acreans. I am trying to not have a war but that may be unavoidable now.
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