Star Empires Game 1 results

From: rhl@valhalla.mitre.org (Roger Lincoln)

Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 17:43:58 +0000

THE WAR IS OVER!!!  Star Empires Game 1 is ended!

The end was inevitable.  There are only 7 players left.  Ajeeby is
homeless with 5 ships; Nemesis and Retchian are down to 1 world each;
Mallorean, Master of the Triple Deal, has held on to 3 worlds.

Out of a starting field of 32 players, with 6 alternates, the official
winners, in a show of indissolvable unity are {insert galactic
fanfare} the Gang of Three; Warlock, Zyzzyvans, and The Saints.   The
Terrible Trio have battled valiantly throughout the entire game, and
have recovered from seemingly fatal events.  Each of them at one time
has faced extinction, but have held on with the help of the other two.
At the end their combined empires span 115 planets, 95% of the
habitable universe, and they have amassed a combined starfleet of 395
ships, most of them heavily-gunned, lightly-shielded Frigates, an
interesting strategy.

Credit should also go out to Nemesis, aka Candace, who was the
uncontested ruler for most of the game (a veritable giant among men)
and proved that diplomacy can often get you further than combat, and
who had the smarts to lose net-access as soon as things got hot ;-)
Player 22, aka Louis, the unquestioned Galactic Library and central
clearinghouse of intelligence, who survived the downfall of his empire
and took over the helm of the Nemesis empire and fought valiantly to
the last man/woman/thing.  My special thanks to Rob, aka Basilisk, who
set the theme very early with his masterful baiting and backstab of
Baruch. This may have been a tame game were it not for him.

There were so many young and eager faces who have fallen by the
wayside; let us not forget Wumpster and Stush, early pioneers of the
doomed large alliances.  Tobold, who fights as we speak for his very
life in a distant universe.  Paper Clip, who could read the signs and
go down in glory, rather than a slow and painful death.  Vulvitis, the
meaning of whose name I didn't learn until it was too late.  Player
23, The Boastful.  Godoraith, the first to see the Nemesis danger and
try to unite an uncaring galaxy against her.  And many others whom I
can't remember offhand.

A toast of Saurian Brandy to you all!