AI War 2:Zenith Miners

Zenith Miners

Short versin

When enabled, every so often a Zenith Miner will attack the galaxy. If not stopped it will devour the planet it attacks, then depart.

Mechanism

Every so often a Zenith Miner will send a Probe into the galaxy to scout a potential planet. If the probe isn't dealt with, the Miner will appear a few minutes later. The Miner is very powerful and hostile to everything; killing the Miner will prevent it from eating the planet. Otherwise, the Miner will eat the whole planet.

Miners are hostile to everyone, so you and the AI might wind up teaming up against it.

Probes can be hacked; hacking a Probe can change what the miner will do. You can reroute the Miner to a random adjacent planet. You can also have the Miner alter the planet instead of destroying it. Finally you can just destroy the Probe to prevent the Miner from showing up.

Nice TODOs

• Make the Miner prefer not to attack planets with valuable things on it.

• If the Miner attacks a Dyson Sphere planet, make it instead kill the Dyson Faction (and change the sphere visually), instead of eating the planet outright