The original factions of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Inspired by matsku84. (M'kay, more like blatantly ripped off to almost complete degree!)
Please give him lots of love - I owe him the English voiceclips. (My copy of SMAC is German, fail!)

Link to his "New factions of Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftefXCqil_U

Music: Orbital, "The Box"
(Also a few sound effects from SMAC itself not directly quoted in the credits because I didn't want the credits to be ridiculously long. c_c)

Blurbs:

Gaia's Stepdaughters:
"In the great commons of Gaia's Landing, we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people and to Planet itself never to repeat the tragedy of Earth." - Lady Deirdre Skye, Planet Dreams

University of Planet:
"The sub-structure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons - and behind electrons, quarks. Each layer unravelled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries." - Academician Prokhor Zakharov, For I Have Tasted The Fruit

Human Hive:
"Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and of the greater race are transcendant, and to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment." - Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang, Essays On Mind And Matter

Morgan Industries:
"Human behaviour is economic behaviour. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognise this deep thrumming of our common pulse." - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, The Centauri Monopoly

Spartan Federation:
"Superior training and superior weaponary have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate." - Spartan Battle Manual

Lord's Believers
"The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear, but it was never the streets that were evil." - Sister Miriam Godwinson, The Blessed Struggle

Peacekeeping Forces:
"As the Americans learnt so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people who's leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality. But the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master." - Commissioner Pravin Lal, UN Declaration Of Rights

Planet:
"You are orphans, earthDeirdre, your homeworld already buried, so young among the aeons. Yet, now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails, paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you. Are you a breath of life to invigorate a complacent world, you earthHumans, or an insidious cancer which must be excised?"

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[TeshnosFire]

Still the best Civ in my book. (D: And it's not even called Civ)

And I love how you added Planet's voice at the end. (In all rights, it is a faction :D) Where does that piece of text come from though? I never heard this particular one before.

[pinkgothic]

@TeshnosFire I'm actually not sure. I just rummaged through the audio files I had (the ones supplied by matsku84) and stumbled across it. It's (to my shame) been a bit too long since I obsessive-played Alpha Centauri. I didn't know where to place it back when I made this video either, though.

I've had to switch laptops, so I don't have my video files with me, but I'm fairly sure it was a tech audio file. I should dig out my backups and find out!

[insideous57]

@pinkgothic It's the soundfile from the pop-up in game when you build an Aerospace complex. (hence Planet bitching about the contrails) Yes, I do play this too much. But damn its good (:

Good vid too btw

[pinkgothic]

@insideous57 There's no such thing as playing too much Alpha Centauri! ^_~ And thanks.

[OmegaPuppy]

I'd like to make a note that the video said "...and behind electrons, quarks." At least in accordance with the Standard Model, electrons are elementary particles and do not consist of smaller particles. Protons and neutrons, however, are made of smaller particles, quarks. I just wanted to make that clear.

[pinkgothic]

@OmegaPuppy Good catch! Though I always did interpret that as "beyond the size of the electron", not "within electrons".

[Kirbywasfun]

Its kinda sad that this game is better than Civilizations 4....makes me wonder if they can even make a better sequel. Games today are deluded compared to the golden age of games. starcraft, alpha centauri, FF7 & 8, Ocarina of time....I loved the 90's. Make a sequel of the 90's please!

[NibaTCat]

Best game of the Firaxis production. Doing the sequel would be the best present they could be for all us videogamers.

Go Gaia's Stepdaughters, go <3

[dageezerboi]

@MrJero85 golden age was defo the late 90s. games today are for ADD kids

[Windrake101]

Thumbs up for Gaia's stepdaughters smashing Lord's Believers!

[blinkyrem]

1. epic game

2. Now be honest how many of you bribed the planetary council to allow atrocites then used mass armies of nerve gas units. That is how I won the game.

3. After you've won who removed all the fungus on the map with around 50 super former gravships

[Nightshift10000]

Colonel Corazon Santiago & The Spartan Federation all the FUCKING WAY, WHOW, HELL YEAH!

[75birddawg]

dwn with the Babylonian mysteries

[funb0t]

The Spartan colonel is HOT!!!

[Varastaja]

Civilization V finally adapted "zone of control" introduced in SMAC, you consume all movement points if you move from hex adjanent to enemy unit to another adjanent unit. Flanking was also major upgrade, and single unit/hex supports my strategy.

Sequel could be based on hexes too, it MUST have design workshop and maybe more emphasis on building base infrastructure, you'd need factories to build vehicles and heavy weaponry.

[TheArabassist]

make Alpha Centauri 2 now!

honestly though, this is far superior to any other CIv game. Civ V only competes due to up to date tech.

Oh, and hooray for the Morganites

[MrJero85]

@Kirbywasfun well no this is the golden age the 90's sucked just as bad. Think of the trully great games of today and you will that today is the golden age.