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Space Empires. On the outskirts of the Ancient Empire (part 2 of 2)

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The Olds of the Crisis (blue): Alex Isabelle The Lattemiele Empire (yellow): Laura Beltrami The Communists of the Prophecy (red): Andrea Benassi The Iron Giants (green): Carlo Alberto Magnani The first part of the game ended with a stalemate between the Olds and the Lattemiele Empire, marked by the tactical retreat of the latter's military vanguard inside the Nebula F-16. While the Intrigons of the Lattemiele Empire also dedicated to some bizarre expansion projects, which would become clearer in a few years, the Olds finished colonizing the planets of their native system, starting to gear up, for the third time, for a deep space exploration. In the other half of the galaxy things were different. The Communists of the Prophecy had already finished exploring and dominating their system, and were therefore starting to think big. The Iron Giants were following them, undecided about what to do. Like the Olds, they had explored the first deep space, to then mobilize their fleet in other

Space Empires. On the outskirts of the Ancient Empire (part 1 of 2)

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The Olds of the Crisis (blue): Alex Isabelle The Lattemiele Empire (yellow): Laura Beltrami The Communists of the Prophecy (red): Andrea Benassi The Iron Giants (green): Carlo Alberto Magnani The "Olds" of the "Crisis". Why olds, and what crisis are we talking about? And what made the Intrigons of the distant Lattemiele Empire go to war against them? What was the Prophecy that Communists on planet Altair were concerned about? And what are the plans of the Giants of the distant green planet Chulak? Let's rewind the tape. Let's go back to what happened before the battle in the skies of Eden and the expulsion of the Lattemiele in the Nebula F-13, before the explosion of the Supernova I-6, before the discovery of Arrakis and the Ancient Empire. Let's start from the beginning. The principle is, first of all, a period of black crisis for the native race of planet Earth, the Olds, a republican people who had seen in hyperspace travel a great opportunity to enri