Turn 25

The Clanger troop transports and naval ship support from the Regul and the Chroniomancy of Iyanden move to G19 to be ready to strike at the Jerandi People's Republic. The Aurons committed two ships to the attack force, but these had been sent late and ended up taking no part in the battles to come.

In order to make the attack on the Jerandi People's Republic more effective negotiations had taken place with the Fleet to get them to join in. However, to ensure that they didn't get the Jerandi homeworld, they were misled as to the exact timing.

As this point the Jerandi People's Republic was unaware of the attack force and continued their research breaking through to Tech Level 5 Computers.

Turn 24

The Caffeinians built System Defence Boats (i.e. ships without jump drives) to help in the defence of the homeworld. The Worati, having located the Caffeinian homeworld, started scanning that homeworld every turn.

The Drahmini having scanned their local area set out on a plan to scan the entire cluster. Given their late start to colonisation (they focused on research initially) they needed to locate any remaining uninhabitated worlds. (There are only 14 uninhabitated worlds left on the map at this point).

The string of worlds at E11, E12 and E13 were now starting to be discovered by the Aurons, Kallikanzaroi and Regul.

Strata Inc. achieved Tech Level 5 in Communications.

Turn 23

The offer of peace by the Caffeinians was rejected by the Worati. The Worati managed to scan the Caffeinian homeworld and, after the earlier indiction of N11 and N13, had a higher production rate. It was now just a matter of time before the Caffenian homeworld would fall.

Strata Inc. had been dabbling in small amount of research trade but now decided to go for it in a big way with its neighbours.

The Gobbannaen Principalities and the Clangers had encountered each other's scout ships and now managed to set up a trade deal. Both sides main aim in doing so was simply to keep the other side quiet while their concentration was elsewhere. (For the Clangers on the Sagittarian-led plans for the attack on the Jerandi People's Republic while for the Gobbannaen Principalities on their exploration, research and trading elsewhere in the cluster.)

The average Imperial production for the next turn reached 1,000 points with the Jerandi People's Republic, Strata Inc. and the Kellesonians all on around 1,500 to 1,600 points.

Turn 22

The Caffeinians tried for a peace treaty to allow time to build up new technology and new ships.

Meanwhile the Clangers had the technology break they had been trying to reach. Weaponary Tech Level 5 gave them a boost to all their marines and the Particle Accelerator Spinal Mount.

Further diplomatic efforts by the Sagittarians had now brought the Chroniomany of Iyanden into the grouping planning an attack of the Jerandi People's Republic.

The Jerandi, meanwhile, has also reached a Weaponary Tech Level of 4 (raising the average for this Technology across the cluster to 3).

Turn 21

The Worati completed the interdiction of the worlds taken from them in Turn 16 and 17 (N13 and N11 respectively). The Worati now have enough fighters to take the Caffeinian homeworld, but don't realise it (due to not having found and scanned the Caffeinian homeworld).

The Sagittarians join the club of Tech Level 4 Weaponary users.

The Gobbannaen Principalities boosts its production for the next turn to beyond 1,000 points while Strata Inc.'s production exceeds 1,500 points.

Strata Inc. agreed to hand P5 to the Drahmini by allowing the Drahmini to form a joint colony and then purchase marines (taking over the colony).

Turn 20

This turn I made an attempt to rank all the empires in various areas:

In retrospect I should have included a viewpoint on diplomatic status as the state of the empire's alliances and enemies had a much greater effect than any of the factors I did take into account!

Turn 19

A round with plenty of research being conducted. The Kallikanzaroi improved their computer Tech Level to 4 while the Regul improved their Ship Size Tech Level also to 4.

The Chroniomancy of Iyanden, desperate to find worlds to colonize, were able to take adavantage of the war preparations of Saggitarians and colonised the world at C18. I had expected this world to be colonised by the Sagittarians.

Those Saggitarian war preparations consisted mainly of technological improvements but the Sagittarian had also made several diplomatic negotiations which included convincing the Clangers of the need to move against the Jerandi People's Republic. As a result the Clangers built two troop transports and started the long haul southwards on the map.

In the opposite corner of the map Strata Inc. continued to add new worlds to its empire.

Turn 18