I'm a bit late with this one for a number of reasons, which also means that this challenge and last month's challenge will run until the end of the year.

Title: Virtual Heresy

• Description: I have seen the truth, glimpsed the depth of their crime. The Virtuals must not be idolized. The Endless are not gods, but godslayers. The Church must be stopped.
• Factions: Vodyani (Heretic Skin, Player), Vodyani
• Conditions: Tiny twin elliptical, high pirate difficulty, high minor faction quantity and difficulty
• Required DLC: None
• Save File: CCES2-1811.sav

If you want to participate, please reply to this thread with:

• Your victory turn count
• Your total score (from the post-victory screen)
• A brief description of your greatest challenges or triumphs, or other remarkable moments, be they purely gameplay or emergent narrative (screenshots welcome)
• A savegame of your victory turn, if possible.

I invite you all to create more detailed After Action Reports as well, but please try not to overwhelm this thread with them. If they become too long, I suggest creating a separate thread in the Creations subforum and linking to it here.

Turn 74

Score : 997

There was no particular challenge, everything went smoothly and it was overall pretty easy. The only thing that was a bit of an annoyance was the pirates early because they decided to get the system I wanted to settle in with my second ark. That made me lose a couple turns but the reward was worth it, a five planet system and three of them habitable right away. I steamrolled the true heretics with my T2 ships and ended the game around 20-25 turns after founding them (They just kept retreating with their arks buying them time).

My ships comin' in to destroy that annoying pirate base.

Overall it was a good experience and would look forward to do/make some of these.

VoydChallengeGame.sav