What better way to start the New Year than playing Astro Empires?
Astro Empires is offering a New Year promotion to new accounts across our classic servers.
Start a new account on any normal server (except Lyra) and we'll give you a free month upgrade and 1.000 credits to give you a boost!
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(Author’s note: if you haven’t read the earlier parts of this story, you should read that first before enjoying this story. Start with "Rek'narash : Arrival”.
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An alarm went off in the room as the hologram shifted to reveal a fair amount of the blob’s size had disappeared and re-appeared on the border of Grilja’s system. Half a dozen people around the hologram had started running to their stations to see what was going on.
“What happened?” questioned the commander.“I… I don’t know, sir. A large number of ships just appeared on the edge of the system. They jus-… They’re jumping again. Four hundred strong. Three targets per defensive platform.”
“Dammit. Relay it to the other platforms and the fleet. We’re under attack.” Barked the commander, an order that was relayed almost instantly to the rest of the orbit. “Where are they?”…Continue Reading »
"200,000Crs!! Where do you expect me to get that Jim?” said Chief financial officer Bobby Cruse. “You know that goods account for almost half of our expenditures! We have been preparing for s big buy for some time now and this is that time!” replied Fleet Commander Jim Tapper.“Fine fine, I’ll move some things around you can go ahead and order it tomorrow. I know you have been planning this all weekend but now you have gone and made my day, I mean we will be paying off this thing for months.” Retorted Bobby violently.…Continue Reading »
Our Christmas Contest is over and we received hundreds of phrases from our players! After a careful and difficult selection, the game administration voted for the best phrase of them all:
"Astro Empires is the perfect mix of strategy, tactics and politics in a Sci-Fi game lasting forever."
Thank you to Giorgio Ballarati, the author of this phrase, who has just won a 25€ voucher to use on our gift store.…Continue Reading »
Sixty seconds to launch.
The Captain's warning repeats in my head as if it was still echoing around inside my helmet. I mute my mic to curse and try to steady my hands and warm my quickly icing blood, knowing just how futile the effort is. It's the same every time, those last few seconds, watching the hangar doors creep open as the surrounding shields flicker and finally clear the path into empty space. This is when the carrier is most exposed and vulnerable, when a single well-placed shot could take out the entire wing, all of us strapped in and securely clamped to the deck rails. In these last few seconds, there are so many things that could go wrong, with the final result always the same. I die in my seat, with no way to stop it. That's what gives me the shakes.…Continue Reading »