04-12-2011, 09:07 PM
Our tireless work continues. We have re-assumed control over our fleets and planetary sectors. Our scouts are holding station for the moment, in their remote systems. Our giant colonization freighter is taking off for the nearest barely-habitable world (newly named OfflineCache). And our scientists have embarked on the most ambitious program of economic development ever. We are combining the resources from last years "party" with this years bounty to produce a technological surge to make Edison proud. With luck, our mining and manufacturing sectors will at last achieve parity at a much higher plateau, and thus provide a firm foundation for the trials ahead.
Our in-system colony is getting a small shot-in-the-arm. We can only develop it at a certain speed, so we are proceeding at that pace. We could, of course, send more from the home planet -- quite easily in fact -- but our priority at the moment is still the development of economic capacity. The colony can wait.
But for how long? How long until that invisible presence plaguing our star cluster moves into Consortium territory? We have dispatched a diplomatic team to establish friendly relations with our nearest neighbor, but we have yet to detect the malevolent presence our psychics have sensed, lurking in the interstellar shadows...
Our in-system colony is getting a small shot-in-the-arm. We can only develop it at a certain speed, so we are proceeding at that pace. We could, of course, send more from the home planet -- quite easily in fact -- but our priority at the moment is still the development of economic capacity. The colony can wait.
But for how long? How long until that invisible presence plaguing our star cluster moves into Consortium territory? We have dispatched a diplomatic team to establish friendly relations with our nearest neighbor, but we have yet to detect the malevolent presence our psychics have sensed, lurking in the interstellar shadows...