I sold off some assets and bought my competitor's shares up. ![]() My debt evaporated in seconds and I crippled my foes, causing their stock prices to tumble. Soon I was the only supplier of power around and I was selling it for ten times what I'd paid just a few minutes before. Then I used a series of black market options including labor strikes and dynamite to disable the power plants of my competitors. Then I built some new geothermal plants-the most efficient and productive energy producers available-before employing hackers to jack up the price of power even higher. I bought up some land on prime locations, taking care to keep them far apart so I couldn’t lose control of my critical buildings all at once. Even as it seemed like my neo-capitalist empire was on the brink of collapse, I was plotting my comeback. ![]() Within a few minutes I'd gone from a solid AAA credit rating with negligible debt to a lousy D and millions in the red. As the market for electricity boomed, I had to purchase it at increasingly higher rates to keep my company afloat. My Mars-based colonial corporation had invested into energy production, and one of my rivals detonated an EMP through my plants, disabling them. Like failed empires of the past, I found myself caught in a hyperbolic debt spiral in Offworld Trading Company.
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