Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Self-Aware Colony

From the videogame known as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Self-Aware Colony.

Secret project details:
Cost: 500
Prerequisite Technology: Self-Aware Machines
Effect: Energy maintenance cost for facilities is halved at all of your bases. If use of police is allowed under the current social model, all of your bases are considered to have an extra police unit.

"Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind."
-- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"

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• Centauri
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• Self
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• God
• Sister
• Miriam
• We
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• Dissent
• Firaxis

[Kemonokami]

2 people dissented.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

This whole video lends credence to the interpretation that Miriam is not really a fundimentalist maniac, but instead manipulating her entire faction into following her by acting as such. She DOES have a PhD in Human Psyc, after all.

[asaqe3]

@Tint301

She has to use religous appeal to the masses. People in desperate times wants a messiah. Especially in the face of the other groups and fearing the singularity will destroy everyone.

[Tint301]

@MetalSlimeHunt Seeing her as a "fundamentalist maniac" really doesn't give her enough credit; she's a lot smarter than she first appears.

[Wafflepudding]

I for one welcome our new Self Aware Colony overlords, at least when they're eliminating your freedoms they don't draw a salary doing it. And I've been told there will be cake.

[AnimusFerrus]

Man, over ten years and counting and this is even freakier than it was when I was 11...

[PantsuGirl]

@Ratama Or they just kill us and gets rid of the humiliation.

[Ratama]

@PantsuGirl yeah but asimov says robutts might pop themselves out of existence when they realize nannying us is humiliating so I think we'd be okay

[PantsuGirl]

@Ratama Butlerian Jihad

[MarciCow]

"Will we next greate false gods to rule over us? Look how proud we have become! And how blind!" <--- Miriam Godwinson, perhaps the creepiest video game character. Expect a resurgence of religion just when it seems scientific reason is winning. Guess why.

[Ratama]

ai overlords wouldn't be that bad.

[Osmandeus]

4 people forgot to research social psych