The world is changed. I feel it in the spore-water. I feel it in the spore-earth. I smell it in the spore-air.

No longer am I micromanaging individual citizens of the planet (which happens to be called LOLSville, in case you were wondering) and caring for their eating habits. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, they're not eating at all--and if they are, they're eating spice from one of the four spice derricks that our nation has forcefully taken. I don't know how an entire civilization is supposed to survive on spice, but they are.

Since we destroyed all other tribes in Tribal mode, the planet is filled with different sovereign nations of Greenus McWhatThes. Each nation is assigned a color, that has nothing to do with anything. In this mode, you also get to design buildings. I've mentioned the Lantern Memorial Tower before, but this is the first time you get to see the creation I'm most proud of: the Sporeman Edifice.



PNG version, to drop onto your copy of Spore:



Behold, a Sporeman! This is what I imagine sporecreatures think humans look like: horrifying. This also doubles as an entertainment building, and apparently it doesn't matter that the door to get in is actually the Sporeman's mouth and that it's like 200 feet in the air with no stairways or anything. However, it keeps them happy, and it probably gives them something to do between spice overdoses.

Things were not so happy when the Crimson Nation (note: not the Red Nation) started to get on my case about "being too big" and "attacking them". So, I did what any good warrior nation would do: I cut off their spice lines. My army, now high on purloined spice, managed to wipe out the Crimson Army and establish an Economic City on their home turf. Thanks for helping me produce more spice, jerks! Those guys were totally jerks.

The game allows you to backstab, too. Not literally, because I don't really think all of the sporecreatures have backs. No, what I was able to do was ally myself with the Yellow Nation, assign them to attack the Blue Nation, and vice versa. After Yellow defeated Blue, I tasked them with attacking the Red Nation, and then, at their happiest, we struck.

By this point, I had about 20 of these on my side:



The battle was almost over, until I realized that I had two cities left to conquer. What to do, what to do...oh, right. I launched the ICBM, a weapon which I only was able to use after I had around 25,000 sporebucks, and flattened them. WE WILL BURN SPOREUTICA TO THE GROUND.

And with that, I moved on to space, the final frontier. (and stage!)

What awaits Greenus McWhatThe in Space?!

I dunno.

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