That implies the second power is an established empire. Perhaps even one of the major powers. Although I'm at a loss as to why such a person would concentrate on finnian and nor ROR or Terran. Oh come on, a look at your presumably complete map would have sufficed to see who conquered the southern H...

I think this is the right place for this. In the South of my empire, in the nebula, there is a Ghost Empire: http://imgur.com/Qe4DNZ6 Centered it seems on the Ghost Regional Cap of Susa, there is a whole connected string of worlds, perhaps 30 or so extending south. They have jumpyards and everythin...

Hehehe, that course of events was not entirely unexpected. Someone very obviously had quite the new years party while I was out. Medusa captured a few tens of my planets, probably mostly undefended for various reasons. Well as I pointed out in the recent posts, I don't believe there is any viable de...

Oh, yeah the most important thing: if you know any details about the demise of these empires please post them here so that we can test hypotheses of what causes this condition. One interesting observation: the unruleable planets I know of are sites of pretty old empires. It might be that the haunted...

As you probably know, the ghosts of violently slain empires can haunt their lost capital planets. My understanding is that losing all capitals in one watch seems to be the most likely cause for this condition, but I am hardly an expert. In some instances this seems to render the planets unfit for in...

I don't believe that these Adamants were inherited. I checked the empire tally of the Medusa capital a few minutes after the capital spawned to see what was inherited, and I don't think I would have overlooked such forces. They must have been captured, either by a defecting planet or by the Adamant ...

Well take care, there is a 3 planet empire out there which likes attacking the Finnian empire and has now enough power to destroy you.

I am not sure if it common knowledge but apparently the undead immortal capitals still show up on the full galaxy export .png . There are quite a few of these planets of the dead throughout the beta (see Xephyrs domain). But what is up with Rus? I cannot attack these planets or even see their detail...

Ah it would have to be few more Eldritches than I thought. The troll, Medusa, just laid its hands on some 170000 Adamants. They definitely were not on the newly spawned capital yesterday, and I don't think they were build in the meantime, especially not on the post industrial world were they are par...

Oh my, what happened? The Finnian empire will be sorely missed. The new neighbor is already moving in, will probably rename all the planets in the most unimaginative way I can imagine. Except for that one sector capital next to one of my clusters which I could swear was not called 'War Footing' yest...

It looks like Archenar is the new Henry VIII, with brutal long ranged attacks. I think I was rather gentle compared to what Henry did three weeks ago to my previous empire when it was 5 cycles old. I got bored about three weeks ago and I'm surprised it took anyone that long to attack me. You didn't...

Finnian wrote:whoa! Also Pirx is a link to some shi/fi book isnt it? I like your ideas

Pirx is the main character in a series of stories and books by Stanislaw Lem, following his career from space cadet Pirx, over captain of a freight rocket on the Earth-Mars route to exploring Titan in the book 'Fiasco'.

The ancient art of Kanly is still practiced by some, I hear. The rules would have to be enforced by convention of the powers that actually could do something about it. A possible sanction short of conquering planets could be to attack defenses and fleets of offenders. Not sure if that leads to unres...

Ah yes, the wreckage of a lot of those ships is on the bottom of the ocean on OO 5986 (actually probably few Megameter above that), together with that of a similar number of Human Empire jumpships. It is close to your new sector capital of New Valentia, just west of the northernmost planet of the co...

No I did attack Riproviamo on my own. First I attacked the planet that the Commonwealth took and then became neutral when I destroyed the Commonwealth. Riproviamo took it probably when it was neutral. But I considered it to be mine, since it was for 100 cycles or so. And when another empire takes on...