Let´s Play: Master of Orion 3 -Will the Madness never stop?

[The Grey Prophet]

Well, I´m back. Sorry for the long delay, but there were some... other things I had to attend to.




So, to recapitulate: Our first enemy was sighted and our population protested against researching evil flak batteries.





With that established, let´s colonise the Xenon System!





Well, it´s a rather small world, but at least it will be useful if I´m running low on food. (Slowly I´m starting to suspect the Meklar are having an addiction to fast food. It´s not real food after all, the same the Meklar are not real people: They are robots. Or are they making the fast food for other races and selling it to them? And are somehow addicted to making money? (No, wait. That would be the Cynoids. Wrong race.) Or maybe I´m talking bullshit. Let´s get on with it. )





I almost forgot: A few weirdos happened to run into the office of the emperor some time ago. To stop everyone from tripping over those fleshlings waiting for welfare or something they now have new government jobs. The squid-like thing on the right is a female Nommo, by the way.





During the galactic cycle 21 a rogue AI harmed imperial research somewhat, but luckily, after a messy clean-up-operation the research data could be restored.




Slowly the forces of the Mordanth Imperium explored the surrounding systems and expanded the imperial borders at the same time.





New worlds were found to colonise...





...and new weirdos appeared applying for jobs.





And sometimes, this happens. Occasionally there will be empty systems throughout the Orion Sector. The only thing they are good for is stationing a border force here -if an enemy force is large enough to drive you out, at least you don´t jeopardize colonised worlds in this empty void of a solar system.




Sometimes, you will get a leader you can´t use. This one for example, will increase your espionage power but because he is quite the jerk, unrest will increase also. Solution? Downsizing. (Ah Downsizing, is there nothing you can´t solve?)





In the 42nd Cycle, the scout forces of the Imperium finally made contact with the strange ship of alien design, but the ship evaded the scout force and jumped out of the Iora System. Soon after this encounter, the force reported the presence of a small colony of organic beings on one of the local worlds.





A second, more detailed report stated the beings being of a parasitic nature, feeding on other intelligent species. The Imperial Parliament felt a slight unease after confirming the report with a second scout expedition. The Beings called themselves the Ithkul and even at the mercy of the expedition´s ships weapon batteries, they remained aggressive and uncooperative.

What a coincidence! The first other race I meet, and they are Ithkul!
There aren´t many of those buggers now, but I can´t take any chances. My first fleet will be tasked with bombing them away.





But before that, we have to colonise many more worlds -and actually start building a fleet of warships.




Wow, almost useless. Well, there still many unexplored systems out there...




MANY unexplored systems...



Next time... Will there be war? Or will the Ithkul continue to run away from the mighty Mordanth Imperium?