BrotherBulger

BrotherBulger

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"Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1910) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000

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" Doubt everything. Find your own light." -Last words of Gotama Buddha, in Theravada tradition "Ubi dubium ibi libertas: <span style="font-family: times ne

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Eh, just quotes about any subject and from any era. "When we abandon the thought of immortality we at least have cast out fear. We gain a certain dignity and self-respect. We regard our fellow-travellers as companions in the pleasures and tribulations of life. We feel an interest in them, knowing that we are all moved

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Here are a few things to tickle your funny bone. http://www.cracked.com/article_19226_the-5-most-extravagant-ways-cities-have-been-wiped-out.h

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1. If you were the Emperor of an Empire, what would you place priorities on: peace, prosperity, ecological preservation, the quality of life of your citizens, number of planets under your control, technology, scientific levels? 2. Would you maintain a large military fleet or a small planetary defense fleet? <span style="font-f

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1. If you were the Emperor of an Empire, what would you place priorities on: peace, prosperity, ecological preservation, the quality of life of your citizens, number of planets under your control, technology, scientific levels? 2. Would you maintain a large military fleet or a small planetary defense fleet? <span style="font-f

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1. If the planetary population represents your citizenry, how would you gain citizens? 2. Which faction would cause the most civilian and environmental damage? 3. Which faction's society would you rather be a member of? <span styl

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1.What do you think is sent down in the small ships dropped during colonization? 2. How do you think each Race would convince the ground side civilians to their side? <span style="font-family:

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Stant, I have two questions for you: First off, you know how when you bombard a highly populated planet (Terran, for instance) and you destroy all the planet health, but theres still alot of population and cities and the cities explode when planet health reaches zero? Well, why exactly would the cities

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Hello all! I like to ask a random question: would it be possible to house over one million Human-sized beings in an area of less than one hundred square miles?

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I'll continue from my last post, most of the planets you can colonize are inhabitable and have native populations, therefore, they would have their own developed infrastructure, including energy creation and distribution and agriculture when you first colonize. They would have their own cities and their own government, so why would you have build out the native population centers when there already develo

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In the Trinity manual , under the Starting A New Empire section, it mentions: "Make sure to build out the population centers of any new planet you acquire. You'll lose money until you do so and you won't last long with the credits draining from your economy." as an explanation for the Underdevelopment Tax, so here's my question: why would un-upgraded native population centers be a drain on your credi

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First off, happy Friday! Second, I'm going to use a part of one of Uranium - 235's reply to the Conquering Planet:why only bombardment thread to help get the gist of my question:"It's infrastructure, that's what the upgrades are called. When you're dropping bombs in the upper megaton range like th

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