This is Planets Magazine Action News, coming to you live with a special report: The Capricorn War — Conflict in Echo Cluster!
Good evening; I’m Jim Chancellite. The top story for today is that of a failed ambush in wormhole space by Cyborg saboteurs. Ace reporter Pat Patterson is reporting. Pat?
PP: Good evening, Jim. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m coming to you live from the planet Continue reading
There are eleven players and one winner (maybe two). Mathematically speaking, this means that sometimes you’re just plain gonna lose, no matter how good or skilled or lucky you happen to be. Sometimes you die; sometimes you survive; sometimes… you change sides. This is technically called “Becoming a Vassal”, though your former teammates may refer to it in other less salubrious terms.
So here’s what happens: Someone has managed to get an overwhelming force next to your homeworld. Your navy is shattered; your escape is cut off. And your planets are Continue reading
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?” — Dale Carnegie, on his book “How To Win Friends and Influence People”
In Planets as in life, true and enduring success cannot belong to a person who fails at diplomacy. In the Echo Cluster, Continue reading
This short treatise was inspired by a public thread in the Aries War newsfeed. Two Emperors, at least one likely prospective Emperor, and several current and former championship contestants participated in a lively discussion on the subject, but in the end I felt that as many questions were raised as were answered. Here, then, I have attempted to organize many of the thoughts expressed on the subject and to Continue reading
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