Game Time: 5/26/2006 9:23:29 PM
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Overview of the Universe Here are a few facts that the beginning player might find helpful. There are a number of what we call System Bases. These are bases which are run buy the local government, mostly to assist new players in finding profitable trade oppertunities. The bases described below could all be classified as System Bases. The center of commerce is New Hampton Colony (11,8). It was the first colony established in the new galaxy and has had many years to flourish and grow. Not that every year has been outstanding, there was the plague the wiped out almost half the men, then two years later re-emerged and 20% of the females perished. But that is old news now, many other colonies have been started and many more are to be started. There are two main Mining Colonies operating. Mining Colony Alpha (4,4) and Mining Colony Beta (14,5). Other systems may have smaller mining operations but these two supply major quantities of ore to the nearby areas. Lots of Player bases currently sell ore so these two bases have a reduced role to play overall. Grand Colony (2,2) ranks the 2nd largest colony. A large smelter operation has been established there, they buy most of their ore from the nearby Mining Colony Alpha. Spare Parts are manufactured at Prax Kroice (3,16), Computers at Prax Vikat (5, 16) and Probes and Message Beacons at West Andies (6,10). St. Georges (10,9) makes homing missiles, which always seem to be in demand. Because of this they need lots of missile components which are made on nearby star sytstems. Some of the bases that support St. Georges are Wonderlund (9, 11), Xrane (13,7) and Chandor (10, 10) Recently we added Depot Delta (24, 76) to the list of system bases to help assist players in expanding into the frontier of space. Currently the Universe is 200 x 200. (Yes it can grow much larger - how does 10,000 x 10,000 sound - enough room to play?) |