////// SRE ////// The Saga Of The Best SRE Game Ever Played! =====--- By: Josh Renaud SRE is a game for BBSes called Solar Realms Elite. It was devoloped as the IBM version of the Atari game SEE. SRE is really in itself a fun game to play; but when you get geniuses (Good AND evil!) playing, and people who are driven to succeed, it can become more than just a game. And that's how it is with me. In the best SRE game ever played, I was UltraEmpire. You'll see what happened to me in the story, but I want to let you know this information is all from what *I* picked up. Most of it is true, but some may not be exact. And now onto our story! Once, long ago, there was a galaxy born. The moderator, or Galactiv Coordintor, ruled. He wanted people to rule there.. To have races of people populate the galaxy he made. And so they came. Each one started little, but theyt became big, or they died off. One such empire was named Ultra. Ultra had experience populating galaxies (He was from a galaxy named SEE), and came to help seed this one. Ultra, with his experience, easily conquered the whole galaxy. But alas, how things change. The ruler of Ultra left to visit the galaxy SEE, and didn't return for a week. In that week, an empire name MaceLand conquered him. MaceLand had evil intentions. The ruler of Ultra came back to find his empire in ruins. Somehow, he thought, I must resurrect it. And so, they waged war. Daily, attack after attack, witfh Ultra losing ground slowly. Ultra admitted defeat and truced with Mace. But Ultra was not content for peace- He wanted to rule again. And so the idea of an Alliance between empires came to him. He tried, and only a couple empires joined. Ultra was saddened. The Alliance really never got off the ground. But people were growing, and soon, he asked three people to join. They did, and would forever change history's course. Mace was an evil, conceited ruler. He attacked with no mercy. He allowed noone to ally with himself. Tht is why people joined the growing Geneva Alliance. To stop MaceLand. Mace new of the plan, but he didn't care... He thought he could take them all out! And so it went. The Alliance attacked Mace again, only in stronger numbers, and slowly, ever slowly, gained ground. They became larger, and learned more. Tey put ina spy, a fake empire, as an ally to Mace. This spy, BountyHunter, wouldprove to be a most important hero. And at the same time, three people established themselves as a distinct trio, the Geneva Triad, just under Ultra in authority. They were UltraEmpire, The Elite Empire, and Dune Realms. These three were the three most important people in the Alliance history. BountyHunter had tricked MaceLand and was exporting goods and secrets given him by Mace. The plan was working beautifully. The information given to the Alliance showed Mace was indeed weakening, but his ego wouldn't allow him to admit the alliance was gaining on him. And then the alliance just coverged. Tghey kept attacking Mace with small armies, and unbeleiveably Mace went down alarmingly fast! MaceLand's victory was turning bittersweet. Three members of the alliance decided to attack Mace without notifying Ultra. They all attacked like flies and Mace was demolished. They took all his planets, leaving none for their ruler, and strategist UltraEmpire. The three were Dune Realms, The Lil' Red Empire, and Jed's Solar Empire. They did it without merit, and it was so noted throughout history. Meanwhile, people were forgetting Ultra, the brave, genius who insturmented Mace's Downfall. They were looking up to Dune Realms, who had the biggest empire. Dune Realms would become the biggest empire of all SRE games ever played. Ultra was also suffering. Mace's outlash's had always been at Ultra. Ultra lost many planets and never regained them until the Second War Era. So the Alliance Peace Era began. People were thinking of conquering the Pirates, not listening to Ultra who said to kill off a new member of the SRE galaxy who was a major threat. After finally killing MaceLand, they wanted peace. And Dune Realms, Lil Red, and Jed all wanted to keep their precious empires. The Peace Era was considered quite long,and the Era itself was. But unfortunately, halfway through, it was hardly peaceful. During the Peace Era, verbal threats were higher than ever. That was partially good, becuase it kept empires from physically attacking each other. UltraEmpire knew they were ont he brink of Galaxial War again, and so with his newfound extra planets, began to build an army. A new MaceLand empire arose, and he said that he was going to joint he Alliance. But the valuable BountyHunter found information from Mace that showed he not only had planned to kill the alliance, but had HIS OWN alliance! Quickly, the alliance trounced MaceLand, temporarily destroying his alliance as well. This was the time that people began to see Elite as a major force. No, he didn't have a major military, but he had two things going for him: Dune Realms financial backing, and the courage to attack people bigger than him. Noone else besides Ultra had the courage to attack Mace, until Elite did. And so at the close of the Alliance Peace Era, a member of the evil alliance arose, named Mad As Hell. He denied all charges that eh was involved, or ever involoved, with Mace's Alliance. He was proved wrong, but noone dared attack. They al feared the alliance (And thier empires) would be destroyed as the two alliances struck into battle. Elite kept prodding Mad verbally, provoking him. He kept confronting him with new evidence that was flooding from people like BountyHunter and the new BroncoBuster. These two provided much information. Mad knew he was cornered and so with a last desperate gamble secretly dared Elit to attack him. Elite attacked Mad, and Mad declared war on the grounds of no reason to attack. Most people believed Mad, even though the evidence was so far in Elite's favor. They battled, on and on. Finally, Elite garnered Dune Realms and Lil Red and Jed's help as he and Ultra pounced Mad. Within 2 days, they had gotten alot of Mad's planets, and Mad abdicated. This 'Mad As Hell War Incident,' caused the Second War Era.. And so the Second War Era began. A new alliance, with more members, and some old ones deleted cam against the Geneva Alliance. Ultra saw the threat and exposed it. Again, noone believed him. And so Ultra, Elite, Bounty, and Bronco came forth verballt exposing, and threatening, the new Dark Alliance. The result was war. Ultra declared war on the whole Dark Alliance. They converged on him like flies stripping him of more than 630 planets in one day. Ultra ws not destroyed though. This was the closest he had ever come to death though. Unlike previous military leaders who brushed close to death, Ultra did not abidcate. He hung in. And with the new war Era, people were succumbing to the temptation to join the Dark Alliance. Oddly, the Dark Alliance kept changing it's empirial leaders. First it was Dominion (Or at lest, from all indications it was), and he threatened all the members. But he started a Dark Alliance trend by attacking, and verbally attacking, BroncoBuster. The Dark Alliance took Bronco for almost all he had. The Dark Alliance kept blabbing about their conquest, and how Bronco was good for nothing. Fortunately, they stopped attacking him physically. Dune Realms started supplying Bronco with special aid. Bronco slowly worke dhis way up. But all the while he recieved aid, he was shipping alot of it to Ultra, Elite, and BountyHunter. They needed it as well. Ultra was back on his feet in no time. Although he only had a mere 200 planets. Dominion was a hothead, and as Mad did, denied all charges against him. Within 2 days, he was destroyed. Then, long Dark Alliance member Olympus took over. Well, actually he verballized the most. With Dominions perishment, Olympus, a newcomer named Micro Maniac, the God Wars, and IncrediRealm established themselves. There really was no leader, but Olympus was the closest thing to it. Ultra and Elite, meanwhile, had threatened to seceede out of the Geneva Alliance to the Dark side, if Dune Realms, Jed, and Lil Red did not take immediate militry action against the Dark Alliance. All three succumbed. The entry of Dune, Jed, and Lil Red into the fights began the third and final war era known as the Conquestial War Era. The three mightiest empires, and the vertabraes of the Geneva Alliance, had started attacking. They found the Dark Alliance to be much more powerful then the reports had said they were. But the trade deals to Bronco had fueled enough money for one large army a day. With half the money he recieved, he would buy up large army supplies and ship them to Ultra and Elite, who re-entered the wars. After the supplies came in to Ultra and Elite, the wars were basically over. Although fighting lasted for a couple of days, it was in vain. The major empries had been cut down, or destroyed. There were about 2 or 3 major empires on the Neutral or Dark side, but they didn't matter. The biggest was Hydroxinia, but he was a Lukewarm Empire. (He claimed to belong to the Geneva at first, but switched to the Dark. He never actually attacked anyone though.) The others, were not about to fight the Geneva Alliance's strong members. This story is a great one. The sad part is, the founder, the workers, and many people never got what they deserved. A few people hogged all the wealth. True, te Geneva Alliance was not perfect, but the first members of the Dark Allianmce drummed up alot of FAKE stories, or used certain Geneva emmbers, to make it look like they were good freedom fighters, and Geneva was evil. Fortunately, the Geneva Alliance held together by the pursitence of 4 members who exposed the Dark Alliance for what it was: A take-over plot. Right now, I will list the members of the Geneva Alliance, in order of what honor they deserve. HIGH HONORARY GENEVA AWARD LIST Gold Leaf of Geneva- Ultra Empire Silver Leaf of Geneva- Dune Realms Bronze Leaf of Geneva- Elite Empire SPECIAL AWARDS (Categorized) Spy/Covery Operations Gold Infiltration Award- BountyHunter Silver Infilrtation Award- BroncoBuster Gold Covert Attack Award- Dune Realms Silver Covert Attack Award- Jed's Solar Empire/Lil Red Empire War/Attack Operations Golden Attack Award- Elite Empire/ UltraEmpier/ Dune Realms Silver Attack Award- Lil Red Empire Verbal Assault/Expose Operations Geneva Verbal Assault Award- UltraEmpire/BountyHunter Geneva Expose Award- BountyHunter/ BroncoBuster/ Elite Empire/ UltraEmpire Geneva Verbal Support Award- Dune Realms Monetary/Defense Support Golden Dollar Money Support Award- Dune Realms Silver Dollar Money Support Award- Jed's Solar Empire/ Lil Red Empire Golden Defense Award- Dune Realms Silver Defense Award- UltraEmpire/ Lil Red Empire ==- This SRE game is over, but a new one is being started. Hopefully ==- all the original players will return to play, and I hope YOU do ==- too! Call (314)296-3218 and join! Thank you to Knight from ==- Knight's Armor BBS, for allowing us to play this AWESOME game!