Ep 143: TI Lore

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Open up your cosmic history books and get yourself ready for story-time! Today Hunter and Alec the person sat down together to talk about the Lore of Twilight Imperium 4th edition. We talk a lot about the opening crawl in the learn to play book and dive deep into several faction sheets. It was actually super fun and I feel a new sense of appreciation for the writing in these games. LIKE DID YOU KNOW THAT THE NEKRO ARE SPOOKY? They are. Also please watch the FFG inflight report with Hunter and friends on July 29th 7PM Central (5PM Pacific). Watch it on https://www.twitch.tv/ffglive while you listen to us jabber on https://www.twitch.tv/spacecatspeaceturtles Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Join in on the discussion here, on our Discord, or at our Board Game Geek Guild. Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. And send us your in game moments for Play of the Week! and This Imperium Life at [email protected] We appreciate all of the feedback and discussion, but there are more ways you can contribute! If you want to join in and decide future games and topics to cover, visit our Patreon

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0:00.0	This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flight's Twilight Imperium.
0:12.0	Episode 143, Twilight Imperium, lore.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson.
0:20.6	And Root.
0:55.8	So, this is me. I'm Hunter. Hey, welcome. Welcome to your Galactic Council episode. Always remember you chose this. I am joined here by, uh, by my co-host. Uh, root. Say hi Root? Yeah, you can call me Alec.
1:00.7	I think it might be better to use that moving forward just so that people aren't like,
1:01.7	you're talking to a board game?
1:02.7	Yeah, that's true.
1:03.6	That's true.
1:09.9	Although I've always liked referring to you as Root the person, which is pretty good. But Alec also kind of accomplishes that goal, too, and I don't have to say the person, which is pretty good. But Alec also kind of accomplishes that goal too, and I don't have to
1:13.1	say the person, which makes it sound like you're an object, you know? You could say Alec, the person
1:18.3	if you were so inclined. Or Alec the game. Maybe that's what we should do, is we should come out
1:24.5	with a Alec board game so that now, no matter what, you can't really escape it.
1:29.6	No matter which way you turn, there's always a board game version of your personality.
1:35.3	Well, now I know what to do with all my free time.
1:37.3	Yeah, there you go. There you go.
1:39.9	So today we're going to talk about lore, specifically Twilight Imperium lore,
1:44.3	but maybe we should talk about just like kind of lore
1:46.6	in general for board games at the top.
1:50.3	Do you feel like, so like,
1:52.6	I actually haven't really experienced much of the T.I.
1:55.0	lore, except for the small amount of research
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