Beta 10

Dates: Mid March - Early May 2003

Winners: Krilgorians

Best-Known Boraxian LC: TumNarDok

Best-Known Ajaxian LCs: EwokDude, sight

Best-Known Tibran LC: Impression

Best-Known Krilgorian LCs: Tanis, DarkRaven

Game 10 began with the early destruction of the Kril scan tower, as buoyed up by an early lead from the initial battle in the roids and a couple of skirmishes with the Bors, the Krils got a bit over-confident and got took caught-up attacking the Ajax to realise the threat posed by a Bor bomber force attacking Mattas Head. Though initially small, this force levelled up quickly, and by the time the Krils realised the danger and raced home it was too late to save their scan tower, partly due to the Tibs joining the Bors in the assault, and the Krils were beaten off.

With the Krils licking their wounds at home (and occupied by an LC election), the Bors and Tibs went after the Ajax scan tower in Star City. The Ajax hadn't really been expecting this, and their scan tower was also destroyed in fairly short order. However, with the blast damaging the Bor and Tib fleets and the Ajax jumping in, they then scattered back to their own sides of the galaxy.

By this time, however, the Krils had regrouped and were attacking the Tib scan tower in TMC. They still had a reasonably powerful fleet from earlier, and easily repulsed the few disorganised Tibran efforts to defend their scan tower. The Tibs were also fighting a rearguard action against the Ajax, and more or less disintegrated.

Everything was set to destroy Tibrar at that time with the Krils in TMC, Ajax in canopus and bors in aqua/acrador. However, the Krils and Bors were in talks to make a NAP to take out Tibrar, but this took too long for the bloodthirsty Krils (plus the Bors leaving themselves the option to jump to TMC after Krils had jumped to Tibrar), and after the Bors got hit by anomalies in Acrador 3 times in a row (kinda destroying the plans of backstabbing the Krils), the Krils went over them and further towards Durius leaving the Bors behind very damaged and without LC. Though returning to Boraxus with an impressive jump through the Aquarious - 81103 gate in turn 140 (which had to open every 5 or 7 turns but 140 = 7*5*2) the Bors found themselves low on numbers and too weak to properly defend their scan tower, instead they went to PK, and got 3 cruisers with a bit of bombing there, trading in the scantower for that. They then left PK before the defenders arrived, to cash in those cruisers.

Following this there followed a period when the Ajax and Tibs engaged each other on one side of the galaxy, with the Krils and Bors engaged on the other. The Kril-Bor fight resulted in a draw, with both sides taking losses. However, while the Bors and Krils were facing a standoff, the Jax were waiting in Garen for the stronger Tibs to move in, all the while levelling up their few repairships to get their first carriers by running in and out of NSA and taking advantage of the damage given by the sector. Once they had a carrier worthy ship, they moved out of Garen and back to Ajaxus. The Tibs then followed to T3S where the Jax were ready to defend. The Jax held their defenses rather well and ended up killing a few of the Tib cruiser/carriers and in the process earned a couple cruisers.

The Krils, at this point engaged in a homeworld defence having lost a number of pilots in a destroyed carrier, organised a tri-NAP against the Bors. The Bors withdrew back to Boraxus, the Tibs went to 81103 and the Krils and Ajax moved to RSC. However, a certain amount of NAP-breaking by both sides, coupled with a reluctance on the part of the Ajax to attack the well-defended Boraxus where they would be prime targets, resulted in the Ajax betraying the NAP and destroying a large portion of the Kril fleet inside another carrier. The Krils retreated in disarray (pursued by the Ajax), and the Bors went after the Tibs in 81103.

The Ajax, however, didn't push their advantage by invading Krilgore. They instead broke off their attack and took the fastest route back to Ajaxus via NSA to intercept the Bors who had given up on the Tibs as a waste of time and were moving towards Ajaxus. The Ajax at this point had gained a commanding lead over the other legions, with the Tibs and Krils in disarray and the remains of the Bor fleet trying to outflank the Ajaxians without engaging.

After a bit of messing about, with the Ajax trying to attack Tibrar a couple of times but returning home every time the Bors tried to move towards Ajaxus, the Ajax decided to bite the bullet and try to finish Tibrar. While they were doing this however, the other three legions, spearheaded by the Bors, attacked Ajaxus. In an ironic reversal of beta 5, the Ajaxians destroyed Tibrar but arrived home a tick or two too late to be able to save their homeworld. They did, however, arrive home in time to put almost the entire Bor cruiser fleet in the red so that they were destroyed with Ajaxus. The short but vicious battle left the Ajax with a clear fleet lead but no planet, the Bors seriously depleted and the Krils with the best fleet of the remaining two legions.

With the Ajax mad at them for knocking them out, the Krils wanting the win and the Tibs just wanting the game over, the other three legions joined an overwhelming tri-NAP against the Bors, who had no chance against the onslaught. The destruction of Boraxus left the Krils as the last legion standing.

Submitted by VoxDei on 17/05/03, with contributions from EwokDude on 20/05/03 and TumNarDok on 11/08/03