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Intergalactic General Announcement Regarding the State of War Declard Against Great Beyond Industries
Yesterday a very painful and much-debated decision was made for Apolyton Co. (AC) to declare war against Great Beyond Industries (GBI).
Over the past few days, detailed and credible reports surfaced from a spy within GBI as to the exact plans for their attack against AC. Not wanting to be brought into an unjustified and cruel war, we put this spy through several tests, including providing other top-secret information that only a fellow member of GBI would know. The proof, if nothing else, is the ease with which the escape pods were found and destroyed.
There is really only one sure way to find escape pods: Have the escapee tell you where they are. We can only assume the troubles at GBI were deep and serious enough to drive him to want the utter destruction of his former team. We did not ask those details and do not care about them.
In return for his loyalty to us, however, he has agreed to assume another name and enjoy tremendous funding and protection from AC. If he proves himself over the next few weeks he may well become our 5th and last member.
We at AC would like to make it known that this decision was arrived at only after testing this spy to great lengths and after seriously debating the moral issue of attacking an entire Good-Aligned corporation.
We are well-aware that other corporations may now fear an indisciminate attack from AC. Rest assured that if your members are loyal to your cause, you have nothing to worry about.
However, faced as we were with indisputable evidence of a massive and coordinated attack against us, we took a pre-emptive strike. I can only hope our actions are understood by others, as we intend no harm where it is not warranted.
As for this spy, we wish him good luck in remaining hidden within GBI. Only he will know the right time to leave and under what pretense, but when that time comes, we will honor our pledge to him.
Sincerely and on behalf of Apolyton Co.,
MarkG, CEO
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Hutak
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Escaped AI Message-Bot
Apr 2001
time: 05:14
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"December 7, 1941. A date which will forever live in infamy. The United States of America were suddently and deliberatly attacked by the Empire of Japan."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
The Japanese empire, in light of the United States adamant refusal to lift their oil embargo or budge on their stance opposing the Japanese invasion of China, and fully realizing that war, sooner or later, was inevitable, decided to launch a "pre-emptive strike" against the Pacific Fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor, killing more than two thousand servicemen and injuring thousands more.
Am I the only one seeing history repeating itself?
Silly me, I always thought a declaration of war, to have any meaningful purpose, was supposed to come before the attack.
-Hutak
[This message has been edited by Hutak (edited May 04, 2001).]
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quote:
Originally posted by aeturneus on 05-04-2001 01:02 PM
Apolyton had deployed many fighters yesterday, a ship I had on auto explore ran into them and blew them up. I shouldn't have destroyed the evidence of this heinous crime.
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I'm sorry for your loss Aeturneus, but we need those 1 fig toll figs for transwarping. At least Swath can be configured to pay automatically tolls. 5 credits per fig isn't too much, right?
Then a word about my 'TW2002 game ethics'. I only attack strong individuals and corporates. Good or evil, doesn't matter. One exception to the rule: I tend to kill all evils at sight.. 
Correct me if I'm wrong but for me this game is making alliances (corporates), waging wars and competing with each other who is going to be the strongest of all. The winner individual or corp is finally going to rule the whole universum, conquering both Ferrengi & Cylon bases and blocking the access to Stardock from everyone else. Then the game is over, winner is determined and the game is ready for reset. 
Well, does this sound familiar to you? This is the basic idea of all the strategy games that are being discussed here at Apolyton. Civ1-3, SMAC, CTP1-2 and EU.. you name it. The popularity of this old text-based game here in Apolyton is easily explained as we Apolytoners are just a bunch of strategy game lovers.
So everyone, expect the game getting harder and harsher as time go by. It's just like in e.g. Civ2, just think that TW corp is one of the nations. First you make alliances and are good friends with your neigbours. Then inevitably you must cancel alliances and typically you end up conquering everyone on the planet. 
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One word from me regading that GBI base attack. We really don't want to sit still if we have a slightest doubt that a corp is plotting our destruction. The facts this spy told us were quite convincing. We hit first, then we start asking questions.
I hope that we made a clear enough point that there is no messing with Apolyton Co.
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