Even rational minds worried that the advanced intelligence that sent the probe would see its destruction as an attack and would destroy or conquer Earth in response. Many turned to religion, even strange religions that spoke of space lords that would seem silly in another context. Whether the EM discharge was an intentional pre-emptive attack or not, we had effectively declared war on an alien power and showed them that we were willing to attack each other with the slightest provocation.īoth because of the EM pulse damage and the panic rising from the alien attack, rioting and chaos set in. This set off a storm of fear and finger-pointing amongst the major military powers of Earth. Over the next several hours, several global powers detonated high-altitude nuclear weapons over their enemies as reprisal against perceived attack.Ī US hunter-killer satellite, hardened against electronic warfare and operating in violation of international law engaged and destroyed the ship, now known to be a small craft of alien design, possibly a probe. On February 8th, 2020, the vessel let out a burst of electromagnetism that fried electronics across the Eastern US coastline and destroyed communications satellites across most of the globe, knocking dozens of aircraft from the sky and indirectly killing tens of thousands. Governmental and even amature hobbyists tried to contact the probe through various technologies, but without intelligible response. In 2020, a small alien craft was detected by SETI as it approached the Earth. This game is in progress and I've left it idle, but I'm going to start sharing it, so that I'm forced to actually continue it at some point :) Oh, and just to set expectations, I don't actually get interesting ships or anything for quite a while. There are 2 NPRs, and Precursors enabled with an elevated chance of creation of new NPRs through player exploration (50%).Īs the game progressed, I thought of individual leaders and other interests on Earth and how they might share power and compete over finite production and resources and I tried to play this out. The computer generated PDCs were bugged, so I ultimately deleted them and replaced them with 23 Malmstrom class Missile Base (design below), and 4 GFTFs.
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I ran a conventional game starting in 2035 with no tech points (except research into a basic ICBM-like missile for RP purposes) and no ships, but with a population of 2.2 billion and inflated mineral deposits on Earth (double the randomly generated number, with accessibility floating between 0.7 and 1.0).