Augh! 92 to 98, his win. Totally legit hard-nosed play, played to the end, did my level fucking best but could not quite catch him in the end.

His future: build a network of “push factories” (beamed thrust) on Mercury, Venus and Io. My future: build a mini black hole at an extremely dangerous black lab site in the asteroid belt.

He got his one turn sooner and had time to zip around the map picking up a few more points. If I’d been a tiny bit more efficient over the course of a seven hour game, I could have maybe tied.

Best, best, best play ever.

Man I’m gonna miss him.