Exploding stars...

[CW]

I have never encountered it before, but usually how much warning do you get for a star that is about to explode?

[Quikngruvn]

Three years. Hopefully enough time to evacuate!

Quikngruvn

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Stay alert. Trust no one. Keep your laser handy.
--from the RPG Paranoia, now my PBW mantra

[Puke]

I think that when you start in orbit of a collapsing star, it is a sign that god is against you and wants to see your species dead. Isn't that right, Geo?

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Baron Munchausen]

Maybe it would be a cool scenario to have everyone start in a system with a star about to go nova in three years. You'd sure have to scramble in those first three years.

Or maybe the "Starflight" scenario with a wave of supernovas moving across the quadrant (or, ok, less destructive 'flare ups' that irradiate all planets -- MM would have to make this option available) and you'd have to maneuver your race to survive as well as struggle with the others.

[Phoenix-D]

Cheap trick to make a star explode when you want it:

Make a new component. Give it the star destroying (or nebula, black hole) ability, 1 standard move, extremely high cloak, master computer, and quantum reactor abilities. Make it extremely cheap and put in on an escort. Load up the first turn, create these escorts as needed, order then to cloak, move to star, decloak, and attack. Then abandon that players planets.

Instant unstoppable death machines..

Phoenix-D

[Taqwus]

Empire of the Exploding Suns?

Talk about time to use Emergency Build... or planetary engines.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night