Just wanted to add a bit of an anecdote...
(Apparently. all I had to do to get ORION working was rename a folder in my C: drive labeled "program")
I started out as Psilons, on a huge map, medium difficulty, with 4 computer opponents. I focused only on technology and expanding, and soon had 20-30 colonies, and medium relations with all other opponents. Then, all of the sudden, one of my border planets were invaded, and lost to the humans. Every race then declared war on me. Since I had no fleet whatsoever, I panicked and considered restarting the game, kicking myself for not investing in some sort of defense. I decided to give it a shot, as a challenge, and immediately started production on a fleet of tiny flying guns.
My technology was moderately advanced, or so I thought; I had developed tachyon beams, (Insert engine type here that allows 9 parsecs per turn), stargates, etc etc. I decided to see how competent my competition was, and produced a couple spies (~4 for each race) and apprehensively opened the status report to find that my enemies:
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...were still using retro engines and lasers.
I begin cracking up; I laughed for a good five minutes. I sent a fleet of 40 TINY ships, and was able to defeat over 100 medium-sized ships, I think 18 huge ships, and able to bring a swarm of 1800 tiny ships to a swarm of 300 tiny ships before my 40 were destroyed.
Moral of the story? Never give up, even when the odds are so insanely stacked in your favor you can't help but giggle occasionally.
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