Hi guys,
It's been over a month since our last blog and sadly what a month it's been. We've been through a lot together with the DDoS attacks over the month of February. Our new servers are incoming (watch this space for announcements) and our temporary DDoS protection has been implemented. We're fi…Continue Reading »
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 years ago, during the great exodus of mankind which spanned nearly millennia. During this time, the control between the so called governing body of the colonies inevitably loosened as humanity expanded further and further from their home systems, away from the center of civilization and the shackles emplaced by the U.C. government. Before long hundreds upon thousands of colonies were founded by groups who sought to carve out a section of space for themselves, a place they could establish a home freprisalar from the prying gaze of the distant U.C. bureaucracy.…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 »