Santiago AAR

[Dio]

I will be playing as Santiago against the other original six factions. I have customized them to be signficantly stronger. The difficulty is transcend, on a huge planet with 30-50% water, average orbit, average cloud cover, average erosive forces, and abudant native life. The rules are shown in the first screenshot. The second screenshot shows the faction bonuses.

 

Link to show other faction bonuses for this AAR:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=4102.msg45728#new

Link to the Discussion Thread for the Santiago AAR:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8144.0

[Dio]

After escaping the suffocating confines of the Unity, Santiago and her followers are able to follow their own destiny on planet's surface. As her first act, she has her followers set up Sparta Command. Then, she orders her scout patrol to the northwest to explore a unity pod. Inside she discovers highly valuable energy resources. After that, she orders her extorted unity rover to the northeast and discovers mineral resources inside a unity pod. Finally, shortly before the end of her first year on planet, Santiago orders her colonists to board the unity foil that crashed near their location and take it towards the landmass to the southeast.

[JarlWolf]

I presume you have modified all the factions as well? Is there link to page with what changes are made? I am curious to see how the others are like- will be tuning in on this one regularly 

[Dio]

During the previous two years, Santiago starts researching Centauri Ecology. Then she orders her Unity Rover to the north and east. Inside a fungus covered unity pod, the unity rover discovers a very unusual looking object: a alien artifact. Next she orders her unity foil with the colony pod to the east and discovers a unity pod with materials worth 100 energy credits. Santiago decides to save those energy credits for a later purpose. It has been another uneventful year on planet's surface and Santiago begins to wonder what type of mischief her other colleagues are up to.

[Dio]

During the next year, Santiago starts by ordering her alien artifact south towards the splendor of Sparta Command. Then she goes on to order her unity rover north towards the frigidly cold polar ice caps. She then orders her unity plus colony pod into some sea xeno-fungus. On a personal note, Santiago wonders how far she is from the nearest faction. She is also beginning to hear a voice that appears to be narrating her every order. She wonders if perhaps someone is trying to mindcontrol her .

[Dio]

The following year (2105 for those who are counting), sees the unity rover hit the Polar ice caps and the scout patrol heading north. Meanwhile the colony pod starts getting off the unity foil. Afterwards, the Unity Foil begins heading north and east.

[Dio]

The year 2106 proved to be interesting because Santiago's unity rover  encountered the faction's first ever mindworms. Luckily, Santiago's "mindworm death machine"  dealt with them quickly. Afterwards, her unity rover became a hardened combatant due to the flaming of those slimy abominations.

[Dio]

In the year 2107, Santiago and her researchers make a breakthrough in her research of Centauri Ecology. For some reason, this prompts Santiago to start on a mass raving about how great The Spartan Coalition has been over the last six years. This outburst has caused some to wonder about her sanity... Meanwhile, her researchers begin working on "Social Psychology". The unity foil heads north to explore a unity pod. From the unity pod explodes this green spaghetti looking substance that they assume are kelp farms.

[Dio]

We get to have a overview of Santiago's empire so far with the first screenshot. This includes the lonely colony pod exploring the landmass to the south of Sparta Command. Then, we get to see that Santiago begins ordering her workers to produce two formers and then start working on the Weather Paradigm. Santiago thinks of how with the Weather Paradigm, she can manipulate planet's climate. She thinks of her Terraforming Engineers building mountains and land. Perhaps they might also produce Condensers and Boreholes. Another more realistic possibility is that she might not get it all and thus her thoughts would be shattered. However, for now, I will let her continue thinking about the possibilities that come with the Weather Paradigm.

[Dio]

The first screenshot shows a overview of where Santiago is currently. Santiago next orders the colony pod north and finds a supply pod with both nutrient resources and enough supplies to finish building the former at Sparta Command. The spartan scout patrol is ordered east into the xenofungus along the polar ice caps and encoounters a spore launcher. This spore launcher is handily defeated and causes the scout patrol to be promoted to hardened status

[Dio]

2110 proved to be a fairly uninteresting year with only units being moved. However, Santiago orders the first former to move northeast and starts consructing a mine on the rocky mineral resource square.

[Dio]

In the year 2111, Santiago's subordinates recieved a global transmission that stated the archons had discovered Secrets of the Human Brain. This instantly sparked Santiago's paranoia that Zakharov was trying to mindcontrol her. Despite these irrational fears, nothing interesting happened for the next two years except for the continuing exploration of the surrounding terrain.

[Dio]

In the mission year 2013, Santiago's minions discover Social Psychology and start researching Doctrine: Mobility. It is around this time that Santiago starts realizing she needs to get longevity treatments if she is to maintain her youthful strength and stamina. Santiago simply hopes that she does not have to pay too much to get them. The spartan colony pod exploring this southern continent discovers nutrient resources within range of Sparta Command. In addition, the Unity Foil exploring the ocean west of Sparta Command discovers enough building supplies to finish the other ordered former production at Sparta Command.
Edit: The screenshots for this year are clipped. That is bad..

[Dio]

Thankfully, our spy reports for all following years so far are crystal clear and unclipped. Santiago orders her newly minted former to the northwest and intends for it to start planting a forest on the energy resources. In addition, the colony pod is moving south through fungus. Lastly, Santiago's thought about project, The Weather Paradigm, is beginning to be built at Sparta Command. Santiago thinks that soon she will have complete control over the weather.

[Dio]

Nothing of importance happens in 2115 to the Spartans except that a aquatic vector of mindworms, an isle of the deep, vomits mindworm boils onto the continent south of Sparta Command. In 2116 the colony pod continues moving south.