So yeah, the galaxy came to an end. Not with a bang, but with a bunch of players looking at their NPC neighbours and deciding they'd prefer the fireworks. I really enjoyed it and thank the others for letting me take part (and helping me learn the game...)
From AL-AN's perspective, this is how the last session went:
AL-AN started by optimising his people's tech and living conditions, and got rich very quickly. And by rich, I mean he had maxed out his credits storage and had enough alloys to fully build a second mega structure on top of the existing mega shipyard. All the while being spammed with notifications about his friends, The Cowboy Snails, destroying planets every 3 minutes. Then, the new fleet and juggernaut were created. Pity there were no test-fire targets... Or were there?
The Khanate, now reduced to two systems, had severely decimated AL-AN's NPC neighbours and mildly inconvienienced AL-AN while he was invading the commonwealth. It was revenge time.
AL-AN tried to start a war to force them into his almighty hegemony. Unfortunately, the rest of the hegemony members didn't like the sound of that, so it failed. Next, AL-AN tried to start a war with the claim and vassalisation cassius belli's. The hegemony disagreed to both. As a last resort, AL-AN changed the laws of the hegemony and basically allowed himself to go to war and vassalise the Khanate. The war itself lasted a third of the time it took to start it, with one of the Khanate's worlds being cracked open and the other being invaded by 11 robot armies, 7 killer robot armies and 4 giant robots (Picture Liberty prime but like AL-AN) who fought against... nobody. There were no defenses on that planet. At all. Dissappointing for a warrior species.
Unfortunately for other parts of the Galaxy, AL-AN still had a taste for blood. He invaded a Gaia world protected by some people I forgot the name of, then destroyed the pirates to his north and took their systems as well. After the pirates scratched the paint on his sparkling new Juggernaut, AL-AN realised that his civilisation's ship designs had not been updated in a while.
Whilst engrossed in ship repairs and upgrading, he was notified that the galaxy was about to be eaten by the Cydran Remnant. He didn't rush his work, however. Instead he took his time to get it "Just Right".
In Nando's, the last of AL-AN's children has stated that the last transmission from the homeworld was as follows:
"Beep boop, my children. Beep boop."