UNIVERSAL DOMINATION
The Eternal Battle Between Matter and Anti-Matter
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Universal Domination Rules
×The Eternal Battle Between Matter and Anti-Matter: Matter (White) and Anti-Matter (Black) are fighting for absolute containment. Claiming 85% of the grid wins the round.
Momentum: The more territory a particle holds, the faster it travels across the grid.
Anomalies: Periodically, a mischievous hyperspace-bat from the two-dimensional universe of Atar-e will make a guest appearance and drop a very special memory gem on the borderlands... a Ruby supercharged with nuclear fusion energy. Absorbing the Ruby hyper-charges the particle, allowing it to instantly claim massive chunks of territory for 10 seconds. If neither Matter nor Anti-Matter claim the gem in time, its power dissipates and it vanishes.
High-Energy Collisions: Due to their natural antipathy for one another, if Matter and Anti-Matter collide, they violently repel each other at maximum speed. If one particle is carrying the Ruby's nuclear fusion energy during a collision, the charge becomes viral and temporarily empowers both particles.
Astivian Score: The Score is tracked in Astivian, the semasiographic symbols used by superluminal navigators. Can you use the score to figure out the secret of Astivian? Try it!
What is ASTIVIAN?
Astivian is a semasiographic writing system first developed by the Ch’k li’ak centuries ago in order to aid the intuitive art of superluminal navigation. Each symbol represents a unique number.
Superluminal navigators study the symbols until they unlock an almost psychic understanding of the inner quantum structure of wormholes, predicting how they will fold and undulate split-seconds ahead of time. The fast-paced skill of navigation requires the instant understanding of each symbol so that navigation suggestions can be intuitively selected. Poor choices result in damage or destruction. Thus, top-notch navigators are in high demand. They use games like this one to train.
Can you figure out the Astivian system of numbers? If you can figure out what the Astivian symbols mean and can solve a cipher provided to subscribers of The Cthonic Underground newsletter, the cipher will provide the password to a special page with another (this time, playable) Astivian game on it as a reward.
Once there, there will be more chances for prizes.
For now, this game is a substantial clue. Further clues can be found in my books, When Morpheus Overslept and Beyond the Empyrean (and its foreign language counterparts).
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