Shattered Empire: An Empire Building SD

Oh you think that was hard. That was just the recon team. The real fleets over there.
*points to tens of thousands of ships*
God can't help you now!

Hey, look at how many I managed to take down. It will cost you most of your fleet but you could still pull a win with enough blatant cheating.

I have one more big post for this turn, but I gotta do some other stuff first. I'll have it up today or early tomorrow.

RocketMedic...what the fuck.

That should be your reply to pretty much every post he makes.

It is, generally speaking. However, in my opinion his posts are like a trainwreck you can't look away from. Perhaps even privately hope to see more of it. The man is honestly better at GMing SDs than actually playing them, since he pulls Deus Ex Machina devices out of his ass like a GM rather than a player.

On that note, I really, really, hope you've got a good explanation for this RocketMedic.

I have to basically give this up

Keyboard broke down (finally could get a new one)/sick and upcoming wall of tests coupled with further papers and we will somehow have to get all the backlog for practical geography done considering the professor for that had a car accident and is hospitalised while we are in the important phase of mapping.

Pansy answer, Sixpack.

*shrugs*
The truth is sometimes the most hardest to accept.

No surprise there.

And what's your excuse?

Oh you think this is bad? Try being his nemesis in a ST game where every other post is his sure fire invasion plan that has Literally had no chance of working yet he wanted to try it anyhow weven after You tel him why and how he could do it without bulldozing his way into your land and setting a giant bonfire to signal I'm making a surprise attack on you.

OK I promise to post tomorrow!

Just as a note, unless I said otherwise (I don't think I did), I don't actually have any ships with Hecton's SSD; Thrall is aboard with a small entourage, but my entire fleet is involved either in actively fighting the Ssi-Ruuk or in patrolling/guarding/scouting as part of that effort.

I didn't say IC, and hadn't actually been able to decide, whether or not Deeru and the Plaque accompanied Thrall and the SSD from Sebiris to Kathol. Now I'd probably like to say that they did, though if making that decision now is regarded as too meta-game-y I'd understand.

Also, as I was falling asleep last night I realized I was a bumbling Imperial miniboss. So thanks for that, Tabi and Hecton.

E: Finally, I'm unclear as to whether some/most of my planets are currently partially/entirely occupied. Should I assume that I can use my facilities and build new ones normally?

Assume that more or less almost every world except for your core systems are currently battlegrounds between your forces and the Ssi-Ruuk troops, with both sides having varying successes in high orbit and deep space.

You can take one of the two, Deeru or the Plaque.

As for the ships escorting the Executor, one would assume they are Hecton's.

Updates are now to be made on fridays.

Understood.

RocketMedic, you aren't secretly Tom Clancy are you?

BTW, what's the PP cost for the Special Action "Destroy Massive Space-Faring Civilization with Titanic Flawless Sneak Attack"?

Apologies. I've just gotten done getting my ass handed to me in several ways and I have pretty much not been able to get to a computer for any meaningful amount of time, at all, until today.

Well don't sweat it as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes RL drops a shit ton of bricks on you.

A heaping stack of badass.

Unless you've got a good reason for me to allow you to keep playing this game...

Your bank account doesn't seem to have the funds necessary to pull that kind of thing off. Not even close. In fact, you still haven't answered any of my questions. The most pertinent being "What. The. Fuck."

As such, since I expected this to inevitably happen, I've essentially shot your kneecaps out, stapled your balls to your tits, and then kicked you in the stump where your crotch used to be.

Player "RocketMedic" has been kicked.

So basically, you're pissed that someone outright beat your crappy system.

Unless you haven't noticed, I copied Rebuilding of Empires' ruleset and modified it. There isn't any system to actually beat.

I basically gave my trust to players and thus the freedom to write as they will, not to do stupid shit that you've been wanking off to!

You have been told this in both SDs and in others before, what on earth gives you the idea you get to ruin the game with this kind of writing?

Who the hell do you think you are? The GM? No! You're the goddamn player, and a damn poor one at that! I gave you so many chances!

I literally gave you a rope to climb out of that pit you dug for yourself and you hung yourself on it.

I am alarmed at the possibility of Secret White Sith Emperor of the Ssi-Ruuk heading for the Lifewell. Extremely alarmed.

Try working through all that again. Even though the system is just a basic guideline you still had to totally ignore it.