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Zikonia has fallen

The once proud empire of Zikonia is no more. Their homeworld conquered, their outposts and colonies invaded and destroyed. Their empire bombed to ashes by the alliance of man and Eitreides, the last remaining Zikoninan fleets have been forced to flee to galaxies far far away. Millions have lost their lives, millions more have lost their homes and their cultural identity.

Zikonia's fall, coming despite their alliances with the Xandathrii and Cathaar Empires, seemed to result from too little focus on their strengths, but instead utilising a wide spread of acquired and adapted technologies and Spaceships. Most of the Zikonians' technology has been destroyed or taken over, their scientists trapped and captured. Terra’s experts have reverse engineered parts of the vanquished race’s stealing technologies, but proud of their honourable war fighting many of their admirals are reluctant to stoop to such practices. Those technologies spurned by Terra have been eagerly pounced upon by the Eitreides Empire, whose past scavenger ways encourage adoption, adaptation, and implementation of new weapons systems. The diffusion of captured technology will inevitably trigger a new arms race and the erstwhile allies’ different attitudes to its use in their own battle-fleets could shift the balance of power between them.

If the seeds of future conflict between the victors can be dimly discerned, the friends of the vanquished have more obvious problems. The Xandathrii race stands accused of focusing on the acquisition of wealth and experience while Zikonia burned, failing to protecting the most strategic galaxies. The peaceful Cathaar could not stand alone against the aggressor races. Their defence may have been noble but rumours abound that Cathaar leaders engaged in secret dealings with the Eitreides Empire to save themselves from a similar fate to the Zikonians. Proof has yet to come to light, but conflict needs only suspicion.

Now after an arc of inter-galactic wars the Zikonian Race is no more and the peace council called between the remaining four empires has agreed a cease fire. However, a new war is just a matter of time. As the Terran and Eitreides Empires both reach new heights they are greedy to acquire new galaxies full of resources. Made arrogant by their success, they could carelessly cause the spark that lights the next conflagration.

http://speedgame.planetarion.com/manual.pl?page=stats

Stats Characteristics:
* Multitargeting
* Offensive
* 4 Races only
* Teamup option for all races
* Terran Stealer

Comments or Questions welcome

cheers m0

P.s. Credits to Londo and Booji for their poetic interception - thank you