05:06:29
The dire guardian is now a Sniper. It stood near its lair for a while, my fleet handled some backwater duties, and then it teamed up with a Hatred and destroyed my remote world. I lost the medic frigate, but it doesn't matter.
I'm tired of this petty game. I'll abandon this distant world.
05:18:06
I was hacking an Advanced Research Station away, and the dire sniper sneaked to a frontier world and took down the command station. However, it lingered in the range of my missile turrets and was destroyed away from any Vengeance Generator. Problem solved.
05:29:39
One the second remote world, I hacked the ARS and obtained the Zenith Viral Shredder blueprint. The dark Spire was handled with my raiders fleet. A massive fortress was developed with older human data stolen back from AI, in an attempt to deal with the dark Spire. As only few can be supplied by my limited power grid, they were dedicated to the protection of worlds with Vengeance Generators, especially remote ones. I lost the advanced starship constructor and I'm now unable to reproduce the MkIV raider starship. It doesn't matter, my strategy don't rely on high-end starships.
Now I need to take and advanced factory. There is also one last CSG network, I'll see where I'll take it down. I'm also planning on some bruteforce downloads on worlds with no dark Spire VG. My fleet should be powerful enough to handle the AI; it's not as scary as the dark Spire. But first I need to spend all my exploits on sabotage: a bunkerer subcommander on a core world is holding the shortest path to a home world with sniper and orbital mass drivers. Let's do this now.
05:32:38
The new fortresses were fire-tested against Hatreds and proved efficient.
The last Neinzul census counted 37 enclaves; one more world just got neutered.
Pirate fleet is reduced to a pair of patrolling frigates. Why did I trade with them?
My Spire fleet count Blade Spawners and Gravity Drains.
My Zenith fleet count Bombardment Ships, Siege Engines, Beam Frigates and Viral Shredder.
I also have core Snipers, core Tackle Drone Launchers and regular Infiltrators stolen from AI.
I'm planning of increasing my Spire fleet with Maws, Teleporting Leeches and Railclusters.
Let's see how far I can get with this.
05:37:25
Sabotage done. Core threatfleet roaming. Neinzul are handling it.
05:39:47
Threatfleet pushed into one of my remote world by Neinzul patrol. Enclaves, AI and dark Spire fought each other around my fortress. Neinzul won, obviously, but now wraiths are roaming the galaxy. Nothing serious, however: my defenses are geared enough.
05:41:55
Spoke too fast. Two Hatred nearly took down a fortress. Luckily, they focused their fire on turrets and the fortress finally destroyed them.
05:45:01
A big reprisal hit on my frontier. Neinzul and half of my fleet were on their way but didn't manage to get there in time. 72 pirates came to help.
06:02:57
Advanced factory bruteforced. I used all my remaining exploits at the AI and then went to brutal DDoS and aggressive key decoding. Half of my fleet held the reprisal and the final vengeance was the strength of my dedicated fleet. I would almost feel disappointed if my life wasn't at stake. Anyway, I feel confident for more brutal design download. I even fell like I would download all the designs that are not in dark Spire territory.
Let see what I can steal next...
Oh! It seems like my power grid won't be able to supply such an increased fleet. Well, maybe I will capture some planets too when their backup would be drained. But for now, I hope some metal converters would be enough.
06:08:44
After 20 seconds of bruteforce download, the AI sent 200 MkIII raider starships. I fell like I'll need to change my plans.
And reuse the Zenith Time Bender before not being able anymore...
06:06:44
Space-time fabric still intact? Good. This old artifact isn't that rusty, after all.
Well... So, no more bruteforce download, no more hacking. Then I'll take the planets I refrained to capture to avoid destroying the design backups. I'll get some energy and knowledge, and then I'll plan my final assault.
Oh, and there is one Core Shield Generator network left. One of the generators is on e planet with a Zenith power generator (probably an old golem's core) with a dark Spire vengeance generator. Why not? There is a superterminal on the way to it; I'll blow it up because the AI doesn't put me under pressure (aside from hacking) and it would connect the golem's core to my little empire. Let's do this.
06:34:43
Core world attacked and neutered. Reprisal wave hit the exact opposite of my empire, on top of a VG. AI handled, dark Spire mostly handled.
Dire spider guardian spawned and roaming outside the frontier. Still waiting on a VG world. Plan is to wait for it to get out of dark Spire territory and take it down with all available firepower.
06:36:28
Unexpected dark Spire bursts. Searched for the dire guardian: nowhere. 1,000 younglings on last known dire guardian's position, 44 enclaves returning from it. Neinzul assassination is the most probable cause.
06:55:41
Fleet fully rebuilt. 48 enclaves on their way to clear a CPA carrier (300). Ready for first home assault.
06:58:43
CPA fleet flew from enclaves and hit a remote world. Dark Spire woke up and are now fighting AI while my turrets do their best to stop both.
07:03:05
All core guard posts down. Fortress and command station not even scratched. Complete fleet whipe. 2,000 reprisal on remote world within 32 seconds. Reprisal warning level 4 remaining. 6:55 before vengeful exo. Metal production incredibly far from handling total rebuilt.
07:05:01
Exo within 4:59. 6,775 reprisal wave within 1:37 on VG world. Still 2,000 threat after remote world crushed.
07:07:23
Neinzul trying to handle tactical reserve leaking from neutered homeworld. Unstopable reprisal wreaking frontier world. No metal: no reinforcement. Lost core sniper and tackle drone launchers.
07:11:11
Exo wave on its way. One remote, two frontier and two backwater worlds lost so far. 4,700 threat in the galaxy. Dark Spire fighting reprisal carriers but not that much efficient.
07:18:39
Nine worlds lost. 2,700 threat.
07:20:51
56 Neinzul enclaves went to neutered core world and took down all remaining force field and the fortress. I need to send all I can against it now!
07:24:11
Home command station down. 660 vorticural cutlass MkII under the slowing field of my home force field. 55 enclaves arriving full speed.
07:24:20
100 younglings unloaded on top of the flying shurikens. Short range enclave's weapon starting to fire.
07:24:32
400 cutlas left. They change their course and hope to run toward a wormhole. Home FF gravity effect still affecting them.
07:24:54
No more cutlas on home planet. Threat indicator below red-threshold. 200 younglings singing victory song all together.
08:04:54
Fleet slowly rebuilding. Dire sniper spawned. Neinzul on their way.
08:06:45
Dire sniper assassinated by Neinzul. Dark Spire woken up and blown up.
08:27:14
Core world neutered; path to last homeworld is clear.
Capturing the old homeorld awoken a dire factory. A dire sniper is now roaming the frontier. There would be no problem for Neinzul to hunt it down as there is no dark Spire in this sector.
09:00:00
Fleet rebuilt and gathering for final assault.
180 AIP, 18 planets captured + one abandoned, 80~ HaP and 3,000 K unspent.
09:11:26
VICTORY
