System evacuation

[minipol]

My home system is pretty well defended and all WP are fully mined and satted. And then a thought sprung to my mind: "What if i would receive the star-is-going-to-explode-message?"
Man, that would be one hell of an evacuation. Building extra transports to shift the population, the weapon platforms, trying to recover the satellites and so on.
Is there anybody who has encountered this and got everything out in time?

[Will]

Once upon a time...

Encountered, yes. Evacuated in time... well, I didn't get everything. Emergency built transports at every SY, brought in every other transport that could be spared, and IIRC, was able to get about 90% of the population out and about half the units. Still lost a lot though...

[Suicide Junkie]

My Exodus Scenario (SE4 Classic) was based on just such an occurrence.
More importantly, though, the race was played as if it were a neutral for about 150 turns before the event...

When I played, I built a set of huge transports that grabbed at least half of the population plus some miscellaneous units, and a couple of colony ships.

I decided to go south. While there was only one breathable planet there, I had squandered too much time on preparations, and couldn't risk running out of resources partway through the invasion of the more distant, but bountiful northern systems.

My army of dreadnoughts pushed the 1st place Ukra-Tal out of one of the systems, but we had to glass a lot of worlds (40% loss in value).
Shortly after the system was swept, the star blew.
All but one dreadnought eventually had to be put in mothballs over the only breathable world, and my entire military shuffled between the colonies and interception missions as U-T baseships wandered by.

I filled up on mineral miners, but with only 3 planets at 50% value or so, it was a very thin budget.
I built up fighters, but between the lack of funds and the thick PD of the baseships, it was tough to keep the numbers up.

My Nature Shrine helped immensely, boosting the budget by 6% each decade, even though I couldn't afford to colonize and protect any more planets.

Eventually I was able to bring more of the ancient dreadnoughts Online again, like great mythical warriors from the depths of time.

I moved from running interceptions, to covering the three planets, to actually blockading the warppoints. Then I was able to fully expand to all of the colonizable worlds in the system, and finally see victory at hand!

[ December 09, 2003, 22:13: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

had two or three systems blow within 30~ turns of each other in a small map. did a massive build-up of large transports and managed to get everybody out in time. then i rebuilt the star's and planets.

that Last sentence should give you a clue on why i managed to have the resources to do that, lose the production, and still win.

[Cyrien]

Had a star is going to die message in a tiny map mp with some friends, About 25 systems and 20 players 5 human rest the more aggressive AIs. My home system was my only major system with a few outPosts in two others. Everything else was pretty much filled with lots of furious action. I didn't get anything evacuated. Two turns after I got the first star message my only warp point out closed in another random event. DOH!

The rest of my Empire didn't survive for very long after the star went and took the home system with it.

[Taera]

reminds be back of SE3 - there i once, for RP's sake, initiated a great emergency due to the message. Transports flocked from all around my empire, all ships were being retrofitted to be able to carry population... and still wasn't enough, and i could just see force fields, with people in full armor 'filtering' those who can escape... it was fun. in SEIV, i dont usually have the resources and tme available, i just use what i have and pray i can make it out.