Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Nano Factory

From the videogame known as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Nano Factory.

Secret project details:
Cost: 400
Prerequisite Technology: Industrial Nanorobotics

Effect: Units can be repaired quickly and completely even when not in base squares. The cost to upgrade units is reduced by 50%.

"Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity, can also be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour out several canisters, slide in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks. In under an hour the nano will use available materials to assemble a small factory, a hovertank, or enough impact rifles to equip a regiment."
-- Col. Corazon Santiago, "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Sid
• Meier
• Alpha
• Centauri
• Secret
• Project
• The
• Nano
• Factory
• Industrial
• Robotic
• Repair
• Upgrade
• Planet
• Commodity
• Transponder
• Colonel
• Santiago
• Survivalist
• Guide
• Firaxis

[LichtAmEndeDesSargs]

how did you rip all these alpha centauri vids? or is there a special programm to convert all the *.wve ?

[matsku84]

HCl's Wing commander Movie Player

[cosmos3311]

This is one of my favorite videos from a terrific game. Imagine if we could do this in real life!

[matsku84]

Yeah! Like everything could be recycled with 100 percent efficency!

[HK47Beta]

Not 100 percent efficiency. There would still be energy lossed to heat and just general entropy.

More like 99.999%.

[matsku84]

99.999999999999% or 100%, who cares (maybe some sad physics geek :D) as long as it's a lot better than now.

[colonist067]

Everyone dives into the pool then moments later they came out as assault rifles.

[Shack11]

So what they're saying is this.

Buy some paste. Get some sticks, rocks, and all of your spare metal, and burn it.

You now have an army.

That's freaking awesome.

[Kemonokami]

@Shack11

That's how video game crafting works: Nanites.

[PantsuGirl]

@Shack11 Wonder what Green Peace would say about it...

[DingusMcFlabbergasty]

@HK47Beta Spoken like a true geek. :)

[TomeOfBattle]

@colonist067 The part where the nano recycles that human hand is just creepy. Think of it, that trigger could have once been part of your fellow soldier. Brass doesn't care. As usual.

[McSqueaky]

I always felt that the effect of this project in the game was waaaay too weak for what the theoretical science behind it would provide us with.

[hagamablabla]

@PyroDesu Great game. Both this one and that one.

[PyroDesu]

*Cough, cough* So long as you don't program them to make more of themselves with the same programming..... Grey Goo, anyone?

[Ander01SE]

@LithuanianLabas

And that's why Gene manipulation is bad. Most people can't write a page of binary code that's free from bugs. And they think it's safe to play around with DNA strings containing 4 elements. O_o

[SmallWhiteCube]

Now that's an outcome I enjoy seeing. We trade morals, lives, anything, for efficiency. But maybe that's just me

[patchhacker]

@HK47Beta Planet rounds up.