The Prelude to Empires: A Brief History of Mankind's Venture to the StarsThough the universe is now filled with unending turmoil and factionalism on a cosmic scale, things were not always as they are today. The rise of the United Colonies came during a period of rapid expansion many thousands of yea…Continue Reading »
I was five years old when the occupations began, the outer colonies fell first. Being newly colonised their planetary defences were still under construction and not yet fully operational. It took 24 hours from the first attack, our Imperial fleets outeched and out numbered, were easily overrun.Our brave pilots fell with little chance of survival, I remember the dark sky was peppered with the flashes of their broken ships burning up as they fell through the atmosphere. My uncle was a fleet commander, he died in the first attacks on the outer worlds commanding the defensive fleet which had fought valiantly to save our people.…Continue Reading »
Dear players,Over the past week Astro Empires has been under a strong DDoS attack. A distributed denial-of-service attack is when someone uses many compromised computers to bombard a website with traffic until nobody else can access it. We know that this has caused a lot of inconvenience to all members of our community and do apologise unreservedly, but rest assured we did everything within our power to put an end to the attack as soon as was possible.…Continue Reading »
We are happy to inform that our community forum is once again back online and open to the public.
Ther forum has been closed due to the recent DDoS attacks and changes were made in order to make it work with the new DDoS protection system.…Continue Reading »
It was a grim day for the Quick Empire, our last stronghold found, enemy ships approaching. Their Jump gate wasn’t anywhere near the power it needed to be to make the jump to the next galaxy in a plausible amount of time, but it would have to do.Admiral Sliver, emperor of the Quick Empire stood on the observation deck of his Titan, one of the most powerful ships in the fleet, with a scowl on his face as he read the long range sensors. His First mate confirmed the readings for him.“They’ll be here in two days sir, the whole fleet that is, you know what that means.”…Continue Reading »