

If you build a second Explorer ship and begin exploring curiosities, you should earn 40 in very short time. Luxury is the fastest possible route to take to complete this quest without altering your strategy. It is also a good choice if you have early pirates, a threatening neighbor, or want to rid your space of another faction's ugly colony. It can be achieved most quickly as by building 5 explorer-class ships with a single piece of armor, but you will need to remove the probe stock in order to build them quickly enough, as probe modules are very expensive.

Power is generally the best choice, because you will need a combat-ready fleet for the next chapter. Or leave your worry behind and simply surrender I swear that I shall treat you with all the tenderness that you treated me." "Look upon me, Prime! Look upon me and worry about your future. Next quest: #Chapter 2: The Galaxy Will Be My Selfie (C - Industrialist) Unique Improvement: +4 Industry on Original Empire Population.Goal: Build at least 5 ships of at least 59-100 Defensive Power. For even if he is not subtle, he is as brilliant as I am. Prime must be desperate-I have heard that he is resorting to piracy! Whatever fleet he builds, I must be ready for it. The minute he is out of my sight, he will scheme against me.Īs I, of course, will scheme against him.Īnd as Horatio will scheme against both of us.Ĭlones. And Prime was put in chains.īut I know Five as well as he knows me-or Horatio himself. And so I was crowned emperor, he gorgeous leader of a gorgeous empire. Subtly we knew who was who, and he gave me his support when I claimed to be Horatio, the Original, Horatio Prime, the Light. They had died in the lab, once Horatio Prime realized what we were thinking. We aligned ourselves with each other, Five and I, determined to avoid the fate of One, Two, and Three. Can a thing from a test tube have daddy issues? And I wondered how Horatio managed to imprint that upbringing as if it was a technical issue, like replicating DNA. I wondered what parents had brought that Horatio up, had developed that magnificent brain into what it was. Yet only one was the real Horatio, Horatio Prime. No scientific test existed that could tell us apart each one of the three of us a microcosm of Horatio perfection. That had to be the case, for we were the most perfect copies-biological, psychological, developmental-that the most advanced cloning science of the galaxy could make. I claimed to be, of course every bit as beautiful and as smart as either of the other two. The guards and attendants had one question only: Who was the original? Gorgeous, brilliant, and indistinguishable.

The three of us stood around that table, a spectacle for all Horatio to consume.
