Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Empath Guild

From the videogame knows as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Empath Guild.

Secret project details:
Cost: 200
Prerequisite Technology: Centauri Empathy
Effect: Allows you to contact any leader, and gives you an infiltrator in every faction. You get +50% votes in elections for Planetary Governor and Supreme Leader.

"Symbols are the key to telepathy. The mind wraps its secrets in symbols; when we discover the symbols that shape our enemy's thought, we can penetrate the vault of his mind."
-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Our Secret War"

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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Sid
• Meier
• Alpha
• Centauri
• Secret
• Project
• The
• Empath
• Guild
• Empathy
• Leader
• Faction
• Infiltrator
• Votes
• Lady
• Deirde
• Skye
• Firaxis

[EvilDMMk3]

The REAL benefit of the project lies in the free infiltrators. You can spy on opponents whilst they are still to far away to reach. Also the comm frequencies are more valuable than people give them credit for for early game tech swapping and commerce gathering. The bonus to elections is only really scary in the hands of Lal

[Silverwood17]

Or prevent others for attaining supreme leader, and let you veto all those ever so hated "propositions" the other idiot factions feel "necessary"

[Tzilandi]

"Oi! Get out of my head!" - Everyone else, to Lady Deirdre Skye.

[QtubAyback]

Sister Miriam and her beady little eyes... that woman is just so creepy...

Kudos to this game for producing the most unlikable character ever!

[OpposingFarce]

@Kemonokami The mind simplifies Information by representing them as symbols, be they emotion, numbers, words or images. The ability to penetrate through the minds of others and decipher these symbols gives the mind-intruder a greater sense of empathy to the people he/she seeks to manipulate. Understanding the fears, needs and desires of the droning masses from it's most direct source ensures greater control of the governed.

I've always liked the dystopic future technologies presented in SMAC.

[Kemonokami]

"Symbols are the key to telepathy. The mind wraps its secrets in symbols; when we discover the symbols that shape our enemy's thought, we can penetrate the vault of his mind."

I wonder what they mean by that...

[Dooby143]

I love the quote for this. It's basically relating body language and other forms of symbolism to being able to get inside people's heads.

[ChuutRiit]

@Alignn Well, humanitarianism and democracy gotta have something going in their favour, too. :D