Continued our game of Stellar Horizons that we started two weeks ago. We made it through another two decades of game time today and ended our session about halfway at 2080, so we're about halfway through the scenario. I'm playing as Japan. I have been playing as Russia in an online, PBEM game and got used to playing the game to the Russian faction's strengths. Japan happens to be the polar opposite of Russia in this game and, as a consequence, I seriously misplayed the first two decades (2030-2040). I did get very lucky and managed to succeed in all the missions I've drawn so far and am far ahead in VPs from that, but the N. American player is poised to break out and start colonizing the moons of Jupiter. The Pan-Asian player had some terrible luck in the 2050 decade with both of his major manned missions suffering catastrophic failures. One blew up on launch, costing the human crew, the Mars-bound vehicle, the supplies intended to build a base there, and the launch vehicle. The other exploded while returning from a survey mission to the moon. They have managed to set up mining operations in the near Earth asteroids however and are in a good position to start ramping up resource production and trading. The Americans are growing isolationist and keep trying to ratchet up diplomatic tensions to the point where they'll be able to blockade trade routes. Japan has the ear of the UN and enjoys a significant advantage in political clout but has little in the way of income or a manufacturing base. I have a large orbital research station above Earth that keeps me competitive in tech and I've just built a refinery on Phobos but it's still a only a skeleton crew out there. I'm going to need to expand that rapidly if I want to get out to the moons of Jupiter before the Yankee imperialists lay claim to all of it.
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