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[Geo]

All hail the mighty probe thus.

[Mart]

2296
Switching to Planned
Our foil probe infiltrates Chairman's Burrow (Gaian), but is lost after mission completion.
Yang signs Pact, sells Field Modulation for 100 EC.
Morgan refuses to talk.
I call for Council, agenda: Global trade pact.

Deirdre:  YEA
Yang:     YEA
Zakharov: YEA
Morgan:   YEA
Santiago: NAY
Mirian:   NAY
Lal:      YEA

Measure passes 5:2
So we get +27 from commerce.

Trading Cyberethics for truce with Santiago.
Zakharov refuses to trade technologies.
Trading Industrial Automation with Miriam for truce.

2297
Spartans capture that single Believers base on the east, it is anihilated (size 1?)
NuDawn pop booms! Population 4 and soon going up.
Bought High Energy Chemistry from Yang, for 100 EC, still.

2298
Deirdre starts Hunter-Seeker Algorithm.

2299
Gaians are about to complete The Xenoempathy Dome
There is Gaian transport foil with 2 units 6-1-1, going somewhere towards Unity Lair.
Or (?) is it our territory?
Again, some foil probe encountered, this time, I can check its faction: Hive.
Is Yang sending them in larger numbers towards Sparta and Believers?

Morgan wants to talk, finally, but we cannot trade with him. We are poor...
No can do with Zakharov. He was mentioning something about Lal and pusilamous...?
Miriam. She seems to be low on techs. Now, she asks for Advanced Military Algorithms.
Hmmmm... She is in vendetta with Yang, who is our pactmate at the moment.
But this is polishinel's secret, that it's really pretended. Yang has Deirdre to worry about.
Besides, he doesn't need to know.
Zakharov, now that is some reason to donate that technology to Miriam.
And from all the planet like increasingly hating us more, recently she became more friendly.
Ok, done.
Well, that was not good for much. When asked for Treaty, Miriam would do it only if we join vendetta
against Zakharov.
Let us not to have too many wars.

Finally, High-tech Engineering Company established in NuDawn.
(Technician specialist)

2300
Tripple energy next turn!!!
Gaian's Landing (Gaian) builds The Xenoempathy Dome
Chiron Preserve (Gaian) builds The Maritime Control Center

Chairman's Burrow (Gaian) is getting busy with Gaian troops. Colony pod, a transport and 2 military units.
No probes though, so we can connect to their internet.
Clean action is 100%,50% with our disciplined probe team.
We get Centauri Empathy. Probe team lost...


"Reporting, Commisioner!" The young functionary stands stiffly at attention.
Born in the early years of planetfall, she belongs to a generation
which knows Earth only as a distant legend.
  "Sarita, I have a special assignment for you," you say, fixing her with an
intense stare, "These samples must be taken to Dr. Brown at Amundsen Station.
See to it personally."
  You hand her a lead-lined security case. The cryopack inside
contains the stuff of nightmares: mind worm specimens. [Viable]
specimens, captured and preserved at the cost of untold lives.
Brown's team has studied the recent mind worm upsurge, and claims
that the worm boils act as a sort of regulator for Planet's ecology.
Human settlement is disrupting the native ecosystem, and the mind
worms are swarming like a kind of ecological antibody.
  Brown has also reached an even more ominous conclusion: with
modern Biology Lab facilities, mind worms could be bred in captivity
and used as horrifying weapons--against other human factions.
  "At once, Commisioner" Sarita says, stepping backwards into the accessway.
Efficient, competent and far better disciplined than the youths of the
21st Century Earth you left behind, Sarita has grown up in a world fraught
with very real dangers. Terrifying dangers once the exclusive province
of the same manner of legends and tales to which Earth itself is now
consigned.


End turn:
Gaian impact skimpship (4)-1-4 destroys our transport returning after probe action
The transport was 0-3p-3, so not that cheap.

[Geo]

Why bother with transports+probe teams? Probe foils are faster!

[Mart]

Probe teams are cheaper, so as long as you can get them by transports (that return safely) it is a better way.

I was constantly (every turn) checking AI for trading technologies, so it is worth trying, especially Zakharov and Morgan.
We know both have techs that we do not.
Probing Gaians will not be that easy.

[Geo]

Well, I'll see for myself now how long we have until Algorithm is finished...

[Mart]

Oh, crap, I forgot that....
She is making 7 copies of that SP
The soonest is 17 turns.

[Mart]

Well, after she makes HSA, how about, we try to make her friends.
And then get her techs by trade, buying or simply she may gift some to us.

Any scenarios, how to make Gaian treaty?

[Geo]

Any scenarios, how to make Gaian treaty?

Vote for her in Planetary Leader elections?

[Mart]

...

Vote for her in Planetary Leader elections?

I think, she wouldn't remember next turn...
How about, we later switch to Green economy (for some time)
Then take her techs.

[binTravkin]

She will probably not be selling the techs we will want, like Fusion Power, D:AP, Orbital Spaceflight.
If Gaians build HSA, it's either we go in full conquest mood and stop her or it's game over.
She is currently doing conquest without air power, so we can counter. We can also get air power from University, but if she gets to Fusion Power and has HSA..
I'd say appeasement is not going to work here.

We may also want to switch our research to Discover as soon as we have the prereqs for Fusion Power.

[Mart]

Gaians have fusion power already.
And she is building Air Power, like 3 bombers, 3 fighters. Missile, 6 strength. Operational in 2301.
There is this boat 1-<3>-... of hers.

We may be forced to "play low" for some time. She still needs to conquer Zakharov, Miriam, Yang, etc.
We can "under the table" support her opponents, while preparing for military action and being safe (I hope)

[binTravkin]

If they have Fusion Power then it means we need to make ALL possible effort to probe that from her before she finishes HSA.
Or it's likely game over.

She still needs to conquer Zakharov, Miriam, Yang, etc.

1. She invaded us already.
2. She took Hive HQ and has units next to 2 other Hive bases.
And that's without Air or Fusion units.

[Mart]

If they have Fusion Power then it means we need to make ALL possible effort to probe that from her before she finishes HSA.

Quoted for truth

Or it's likely game over.

Let us not loose hope.
Gaian techs are: 54, 50, 40, 38 %
Average is 45.5%, and it will be some time before we get to transcendence.
Can she win by domination? She may have a chance sooner, but we can do something to prevent this.

[Geo]

Perhaps, in a few turns, we should try to free Yang in Gaia's Landing?
Did the Gaians add 50something population in the last 10 turns? They're way over 400 votes now...

[Mart]

Empath Guild gives some multiplication