As I said - I regret that we did not use the ingame communications for the deals, and will handle that differently in coming games. I can not do much about that now though. Hindsight is 20/20.
Not predetermined meant we did not go into this game with any agreement that we would fight together, or any preexisting plans or deals. All that transpired was based on ingame events, and being next to each other a mere coincidence. Knowing each other made the communication a bit easier probably.
Quick recap of the history of deals with the klingons:
As you can see in the time machine I discovered some klingon planets in turn 9, that is when I initiated contact and began talking about possible deals. As I did with you when I first found out you were my other neighbour in turn 13. We did not share any locations or whereabouts before that.
The nature of my agreement with the klingons was the same as with you. NAP/Peace until Turn 50, see where we can cooperate further during that time. We agreed and executed one ship trade falcon - glory device (needed to get my hands on the only ship which allows me to detect/defend against all cloakers, since the Loki would not be useful against Lizard or Birds - allthough trading away a falcon against a planet-immune, ground-assault race was risky, but seemed like a fair deal since I got the counter to his cloakers as well) around turn 20.
There were some loose talks about alliance around mid 20s turns, but we deemed it to early in the game to decide.
After Turn 30 the drive north against the colonies of men was started, after I reconfirmed with both of you that north would be the direction of expansion for the three of us. My cooperation with the klingons was a bit closer at this point, since actual battle against the CoM (who dropped after the decision to move out was made) would need shared intel.
Around turn 40 we realigned and extended the Lizard - Rebel agreement, and shared intel to coordinate the move north.
Since neither of you asked for an alliance to end the game, after I realized we had enough planets to start the countdown, I asked the klingons first - I could argue that this was because of his higher military count, and the stronger coordination in taking the COM planets, however I have to admit that knowing him played a small part as well.
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