Black's in this year. I think he's either one of the engineer type people who run the consoles or he's a TIE fighter pilot.
Another easy day for me today. A few episodes of catch up telly in the morning and now I'm tapping this out while a few episodes of Salvation play in the background. In the middle, far too much excitement in the Stellaris game.
It's still fairly early days in that galaxy. It's getting into the early midgame where the wars are kicking off and federations are getting formed. The Purifiers are doing well so far (They should be, they demolished the opposition inside 50 years in the tiny galaxy game) but they have been taking a certain amount of losses which get rebuilt between wars.
What I didn't anticipate was the outcome of a decision made much earlier. As Fanatic Purifiers, the race views all creatures unlike itself as food. They take planets, they get the dinner plates out and eat the occupants. Perhaps like the Kzin in the Larry Niven Known Space universe.
It's a certain race style that adds its own advantages and some hefty disadvantages. The ships are better but the option to do diplomacy is totally removed. That's probably a bigger disadvantage than it seems, as it also means that all of the other races tend to gang together to stave off the big threat that is your race.
Ok ... what actually happened in that decision made earlier ?
Something they're steadily adding into the game is a series of random events. There's no guarantee that any of them appear in a game, in fact it's very unlikely. This time, it turned out that some of my race got modified and made smarter. Sounded great at the time ! And the change was rolled out to all of the planets in the Empire, except a couple of planets which were being colonised at the time.
But ... later on, another change got made to start the inhabitants of the Empire on their way to becoming Psionic. And they didn't like the inhabitants which had been made smarter ...
Oops. Half the Empire suddenly decides to eat the other half of the Empire.
It was a good lunch. And dinner.
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