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He uses 'transparent' colour which picks the colour of background the reader has.

Clever little thing ;3

Strange people everywhere on bay12.

No worries, Zakdorn is already producing ships, Sol is ready for ship production thanks to replicator upgrade, Benzar builds several more replicators to catch up with previous two.

There's also one other system, minor race, I think, that has 605 million population and will be our 4th shipyard system.

I'm also planning to build an outpost at every colony we have, while our homeworld and member systems get starbases.

Update 9: When Dominion Appears on the Scene

One turn passes since last update and Breen reject our trade treaties.

Next turn, and the fleet at Ferenginar had to chase away a Xindi cruiser, and even managed to dent it's hull a bit before it warped away.


This is quite an important message. It means that Miradorn joined the Romulans and in turn had to adopt the 'cold war' stance instead of open hostility. Terraforming and outpost construction continues on our newest borders, but development of Ferenginar is still behind the average.


Because Cpt.Pisskop's group returned from defending our new colony site, this time, the Xindi cruiser didn't escape.
Our breakthrough in Computers also allows us to upgrade our Constellations into Ambassador-class explorers. These are more powerful, better shielded ships that are now capable of traveling at yellow range, instead of green range. Constitution and Bellerophon, under command of Cpt.Cain and Cpt.Hanzoku respectively, are refitted as well. Until the modificatiosn are ocmplete, though, their damage resistance is minimal (in UDM mod, when a ship upgrades, it's HP falls to 10% as if it was damaged in battle. This is a balance thing.)


The Dominion. We're not sure what it is, besides the fact it is the fifth space-faring empire. Caldonians and Yridians admitted being in a brief contact with The Dominion, but are unwilling to divulge any information. Hmph.
Romulans make a monetary demand of 3440 credits, which we will rudely ignore. Romulan fleet now consisits of 39 vessels.


Woah woah woah. I'm surprised. I don't know if it was Dominionese bravery, or skills, or size of coffers, but they're now basically allies of the Klingons. Xindi just joined the Klingon Empire as well.
Nausicaan battle group finished the basic training program. Three of their warships were sent to join Ktarian-Zakdorn group at Xepolite, and the other six went up to reinforce our fleet at Ferenginar.

Next week, Cpt.Ivan sent us an urgent report about strangely high concentration of Trill, Xindi and Klingon ships, mostly small warships and transports, near Yridia. New England's sensors also detected strange gaseous lifeform. We advised Cpt.Ivan to warp away from Klingon border for the time being.

Oh, and we formed a trading treaty with Breen, at last.

One week later...

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"AUDIO CONFERENCE ONLY."

"This is Captain Ivan speaking."

The President of the Federation pales at the sight of the scanner image, and then shifts in his chair.

"Go on."

"We have detected no less than fifty five starships coming from the eastern parts of our galaxy toward Klingon space. Fifty five, if not more, sir."

"Designation? Size? Allegiance?"

"We canno-" Static rushes through the transmission for a while. "-and I think they're trying to jam our signal, sir. What are your ord-" More static.

President Haspen leans into his chair, his left hand twiching slightly.

"Remain on your position, Cpt.Ivan. Report directly to Starfleet if you get any more information about-"

The signal cuts off abruptly.

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So basically I've witnessed greatest concentration of warships in this playthrough. The bottom-right question mark has list of 'unknown ships' so long that I can scroll and scroll and it still shows up more ships. I think I've counted fifty five, and I could've missed few, so 55-60 ships is the best guess. Given the size of the armada, we can guess that Dominion is sending help to Klingons.

For what purpose? I think it's better to not think about it...

For comparison, Romulan fleet is 40 ships, mostly destroyers and scouts, and our combined Starfleet is barely 23 ships. God have mercy on us v:


Game loves kicking my ass at random intervals. Because of bad luck, it killed all of the Kenda system population, which means we lost all the buildings there, which means we have to re-colonize the system from scratch. Goddamit.


Same turn we get last of Level-6 techs, the Weapons, which upgrades our Soyuz-class starships to Miranda-refit class. Slight improvements all across the board, but it's still nice thing.


Tellarites joined the Federation! As you can see, they are quite advanced.
Cpt.Ivan's report states that most of the 'grand unknown fleet' is now mostly parked at the system we think is Qo'nos, Klingon homeworld. Few ships are scattered across neighbouring regions, and a group of 4 unknown vessels are currently at Ankaa, the rallying point of any previous Klingon intrusions into Ferenginar system.

Week later we got report from Ivan, again: outpost at Qo'nos vanished, much of fleet scattered, and only the Gaseous Lifeform remains there. Haa!
Benzar is slowly turning into ship-production moloch - we're 2/3 through replicator construction and the industry rank is already at 2k points. Currently, Zakdorn system is producing 3 Ambassadors for Ferengi defenders, +another defense group is in the queue.


This is the only thing of note that happens the next week.


At Turn 111, Ferenginar Defense Fleet pulverizes one of 4 warships that intruded into the system. Soon we learn those belong to Gorn, warlike traders. We find out they are military affiliates of Klingons. A suitable match, one could say.


Uh, triple bad news. At least that comet didn't kill all of the colonists.
From good news, we just finished upgrading mass replicators at Sol, so we should be making new ships in no time.

Time for a break.

Yes, yes, yes.

Make me Captain

Kinda-on-topic!

MY TRIBUTE TO HAMSTONE - A MOVIE POSTER!

Update 7: Crisis Averted

At the end of the 74th week, Cpt.Ivan got a special assignment. USS New England will plunge onto outskirts of our space, at Klingon border, and will perform dual exploration-spying duty. Part of Intelligence department agents went on his ship.

Next week, we got message from Ferengi, they say that we can defeat the Klingons! Thanks, midgets.

Two new ships left our shipyards: USS Lantree, destroyer commanded by Cpt.New Guy, will reinforce Cpt.Cain's fleet. Our newest Excelsior-class cruiser, USS Cairo, will join Cpt.Pisskop's fleet and serve as his new flagship.


This demand comes week after. We won't accept, and rejecting would be bad step. So, we will simply ignore the demand. Cpt.Ivan reports a large group of Klingon transports and few Trill Cruisers amassed at Ankaa system, but strangely, no other starships were found.


Blah.


This is sweeter information, though. Thanks to Bolians' cosmetology center, our agents got neat boost to espionage. With some effort, we can obtain info about our enemies. As you can see, their technology is behind us.

Cpt.Ivan reports interesting discovery - 6 unknown ships apparently warped into Ankaa system. Are those allies of the Klingons or merely some bypassing aliens? Maybe we will know soon. Cpt.ivan was ordered to delve deeper into the borders of Klingon Empire.


Cpt.Ivan meets these aliens. They are rather unfriendly toward us, live on outskirts of Klingon Empire and as far as politics are concenrned, they declared war against Klingons not so long ago.
We also learn that the 6 unknown ships aren't theirs.

Eta Crucis system is colonized, one of few we decided to settle with humans.

At Bolarus, we have re-shuffled the groups. Ans so:
-Cpt.Pisskop, now in command of USS Cairo, will take USS Miranda (Dsarker) and USS Pascal and remain at Bolarus system.
-Cpt.Ebbro, commanding USS Crazy Horse, will take a Centaur (Greatorder), four Mirandas (Hanzoku and Euld's included) and those two Ferengi Marauders, and speed off to Ferenginar system to defend it. Later on, he will receive few transports and an outpost will be constructed there.


Caldonians! A rahter peaceful and science-centered race discovered by Cpt.Ivan.


Few hours later we've got this. After short debacle, we have trusted the Klingon honour and signed the treaty. Cpt.Ebbro's fleet will reinforce Ferenginar anyways.

Simple security reasons, of course. USS Cygnus, just built at Zakdorn, shall join Cpt.Cain's fleet at Xepolite system. There was quite a bit of silence from Romulans and I don't like that.


Several days later we learn that those 6 ships are Xindi, a rather xenophobic race. They are military affiliates of Klingons so we must watch ourselves. Nausicaans rejected our affiliation treaty while Caldonians opened their markets for our merchants.


Next turn, this happens. Fortunately it was a newly found colony and the effective damage was minimal.


Woohoo! Not only our scientists get our Construction research onto next level, but Flaxians joined the Federation! As a bonus, the Tellarites agreed to let our trade ships dock on their stations for economical purposes. Klingons backed away to their territory, Cardassians don't even budge from Orion, and Romulans conitnue to jump their fleets around the border system.

Construction of defense outposts conitnues, and now, with Cardassian border monitored by two of those outposts, USS Osiris was sent to Ferenginar and USS Onizuka (Cpt.Pies) to Bolarus, to reinforce respective fleets.

Our colonies thrive and member homeworlds continue to improve their infrastructure!

All is well so far!

//This turn was too good. I smell problems next time.