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Youuuuu sunnuvabitch >:C

also, once it kicks someone's ass and stands over them, make it say "well, looks like you always BYTE off more than you can chew." and then fireworks go off and a sweet car just materialises out of thin air.

I'll just sit over here for now...

Don't forget the sunglasses and the Who.

"I'd say the latter is more likely, which is to say still not very. If they had mages able to divine our names and past, surely they would have had mine. Instead, they only had the very basics - things one could discern with the naked eye."

So a fairly substantial Tarka fleet attacked one of my worlds. 21 battlecruisers of various kinds, none of which I had seen before. On my side was a dreadnought-class CnC ship and a small collection of cruisers of my own, nearly half of which were non-combat types. Plus some destroyer-class defense stations, but if it came down to those the colony was doomed anyway.

It was brutal, but oh-so awesome. Its a good thing that I spent so much time preparing to fight the Zuul, because if anything the Tarka were even more reliant on missiles. Even my point-defense-heavy fleet had a difficult time stopping them all as the Tarka fleet closed in for a slugging match, and my barrage units could barely slow the alien cruisers down. Soon enough, space became filled with energy blasts of various kinds as I struggled to identify the greatest threats and concentrate fire on them. The Tarka ships were more maneuverable, but I kept my fleet formation as best I could and before long the rather tough battlecruisers began to explode. It took an entire half of the battle time limit, but the Tarka ships perished.

Then the second wave closed in. Thankfully the battle ended soon afterward, because these ones had deflectors which rendered missiles virtually useless. Thank goodness I focus so heavily on energy weapons.

All in all, 13 Tarka cruisers went down in flames. My only loss was cruiser on the front line, though considering the Tarka's deflectors and the fact that the cruiser in question was equipped with an antimatter projector, I think I will be missing that ship when round two rolls around.

Weston thought for a moment, then sighed.

"You offer a compelling argument. Very well, I'm sure we'll manage somehow."

Spend healing surge, follow along.

First SC, now Haspen? Poor guys 

My mighty Obliterators might be able to defeat hordes of missile-carrying Zuul ships, but there is one weapon they cannot deal with: a strange weapon that opens a rift in Nodespace, sending any unlucky vessels hit by it to another system instantly. This weapon seemingly never misses and never fails to trigger the effect, and there is no defense against it. What's worse, it out-ranges the Obliterator's best weapons and so the mighty ships cannot simply stay at range.

I lost a fresh colony when a small Zuul fleet attacked it. While the Obliterator massacred the initial wave with ease, a Rip Bore ship moved in and zapped it with the "rift gun", leaving the world suddenly and completely defenseless. While the dreadnought survived, the colony did not.

I still have 50 minutes before New Years