Trani - 25 February 19:30 - Tick 40, Cycle 2

So that's the second cycle just finished. I'm happy with how the game is going.

Current stats

Stars: Gilgamesz (23), Darrow (20), Necria (19)
Ships: Gilgamesz (242), Inerz (224), Anita (183), Necria (142)
New Ships: Inerz (5.4), Gilgamesz (5.1), Ktoc (3.85) Necria (2.4)
Cycle Income: Darrow (430), Ktoc (428), Necria (369)

Strategic 

• I'm aware that Gilgamesz is doing very well but I'm not threatened by it. I believe in trusting your allies and helping make them stronger. I intend to win the game but I'll worry about how to get into first later. It's always good to be aware other players will be looking at this as a threat though.
• I expect Dust to snap back into activity later this evening but if he doesn't for any reason then I'll need to do some re-evaluating. Possibly more expansion up north sooner (south westward.) I don't want Ktoc to take his territory without a fight and then ally Darrow.

Diplomatic 

• Despite capturing the territory Gilgamesz and I agreed and me sending him Terraforming he didn't send me Experimentation before the cycle ended. I don't believe this was intentional as he wasn't active in the hours before the cycle ended, but he's still cost me 50 potential research points and I'm paying attention to what he does next.
• Dust has been AFK for 19 hours. I know this from the turn-based game were in and could infer it from fleet movements too. What it also tells me is that he'd negotiated certain starts from Ktoc as Ktoc hasn't taken them when he could have. These two are in cahoots.. 
• I want to make Darrow & Denizen believe Gilgamesz and I are less cooperative than we are. There'll be no elaborate story about a border war to achieve this, from me anyway, I'll just sow doubt. Denizen has already suggested I should be worried about my expansion prospects so I'll just let him believe that I am. This achieves a dual purpose of keeping my options flexible whilst also hopefully making other players less threatened and inclined to form their own dangerous alliances.
• Darrows silence is never-ending.

Tactical 

• General Bison continues to defend the Visya wormhole.
• Another carrier with 46 ships is a couple hours from Kreete to garrison that. There's now 27 ships on Resya (20 more than before) I think due to a loop Dust set up yesterday.