https://imgur.com/a/vm2lA
Smatter piece and cult empire with ghosts leveling the heck out of each other's probes and pods. Neither is particularly growing, but whichever empire tries to take them down is going to have a rough time.
Hehe nice :) That's a lot of ghosts ...
Yeah. Didn't end up getting to see them fight -- the green cult lost its last star at a distant location.
What exactly causes ghosts to be created, anyhow? It's certainly not every lost ship and backstabbing.
It's whenever a level 4 or 5 (e.g. minister or Emperor) of the empire that built that artifact dies :)
