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:Leader: Sister Miriam Godwinson (American) | :Leader: Sister Miriam Godwinson (American) | ||
:Aggressive, Explorers/Conquerors, Fundamentalist agenda, hates Knowledge-seekers | :Aggressive, Explorers/Conquerors, Fundamentalist agenda, hates Knowledge-seekers | ||
:Only representative of a divided and fractured America, specifically the hyper-fundamentalist part. A psycho bitch who spams demands every turn then declares war the moment you decline. Everything you hate about Christfags rolled into one, may she be messily devoured by worms. Usually the first faction you fight if you're playing as Zakharov. If she's not your neighbor, then by the time you encounter her she's probably either been squished out of existence or rules the other half of the planet in a gigantic empire that is going to take ''forever'' to conquer. | :Only representative of a divided and fractured America, specifically the hyper-fundamentalist part. A psycho bitch who spams demands every turn then declares war the moment you decline. Everything you hate about Christfags rolled into one, may she be messily devoured by worms. Usually the first faction you fight if you're playing as Zakharov. If she's not your neighbor, then by the time you encounter her she's probably either been squished out of existence or rules the other half of the planet in a gigantic empire that is going to take ''forever'' to conquer. You functionally cannot ally with her for a long period, like Shen she asks you to adopt retarded policies that will ruin your civ and force you people into dirt farming, however at least Shen is getting something from it, Believers have this issue that if their early game does not go [[Just As Planned]] they basically have nothing at all and still act like total cunt-nuggets with their rocks and sticks. They can be fucked over without interacting with another civ. | ||
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:Leader: CEO Nwabudike Morgan (Namibian) | :Leader: CEO Nwabudike Morgan (Namibian) | ||
:Pacifist, Builders, Free Market agenda, hates Planned Economies | :Pacifist, Builders, Free Market agenda, hates Planned Economies | ||
:Morgan is all about the Benjamins, and making sure his peeps are living the high life. If that means the environment gets fucked up beyond saving, or other factions having no monies, so be it. THE FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT! He's a black space Jew, a.k.a. the plague, but he won't openly try to slap your shit as long as you're not a dirty commie. One of the few factions that can actually reliably try for the otherwise-wonky "economic" victory, naturally. | :Morgan is all about the Benjamins, and making sure his peeps are living the high life. If that means the environment gets fucked up beyond saving, or other factions having no monies, so be it. THE FREE MARKET WILL FIX IT! He's a black space Jew, a.k.a. the plague, but he won't openly try to slap your shit as long as you're not a dirty commie. One of the few factions that can actually reliably try for the otherwise-wonky "economic" victory, naturally. However its much easier to go for any of the other victory conditions by throwing at money problems and flat-out buying what you need to get the job done. | ||
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:Leader: Commissioner Pravin Lal (Indian) | :Leader: Commissioner Pravin Lal (Indian) | ||
:Erratic, no specialists, Democracy agenda, hates Police State | :Erratic, no specialists, Democracy agenda, hates Police State | ||
:Wuss; usually the first to get wiped out in a game. When role-playing in a thread, Pravin will usually say something about "why don't we come to some sort of agreement" and everyone else agrees that Pravin should shut the fuck up. He's a limp-dicked peacenik, but he's tied with Deidere in being the overall fairest to his people, and he's one of the few leaders who can't be bought. Has few real strengths or weaknesses, so his faction is good for beginners to learn the ropes with, though victory with him will rely on the skill and talent of the player rather than the powers and bonuses of the faction to carry the day. | :Wuss; usually the first to get wiped out in a game. When role-playing in a thread, Pravin will usually say something about "why don't we come to some sort of agreement" and everyone else agrees that Pravin should shut the fuck up. He's a limp-dicked peacenik, but he's tied with Deidere in being the overall fairest to his people, and he's one of the few leaders who can't be bought. Has few real strengths or weaknesses, so his faction is good for beginners to learn the ropes with, though victory with him will rely on the skill and talent of the player rather than the powers and bonuses of the faction to carry the day. Also despite claiming to be an ethical man, he seems prepared to clone his waifu after she leaves him to have a clone of her to pull a Hikaru-Genji with. | ||
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:Leader: Colonel Corazón Santiago (Puerto Rican) | :Leader: Colonel Corazón Santiago (Puerto Rican) | ||
:Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Power agenda, hates Wealth | :Erratic, Discoverers/Conquerers, Power agenda, hates Wealth | ||
:Will kick your ass. Has [[-4 Str|plus-four strength]]. All about military power and how soldiers are superior to soft lazy civvies like you. Most often accused of assassinating the colony ship's captain, despite a complete lack of proof. She's a psychopathic douchenozzle and often gets herself killed when she picks a fight with too many people at once, and is completely suspicious of anyone who picks a "value" other than "power." That said, if you beat her up and she surrenders, she actually means it, and will loyally serve you for the rest of the game. MRAs, rejoice! | :Will kick your ass. Has [[-4 Str|plus-four strength]]. All about military power and how soldiers are superior to soft lazy civvies like you. Most often accused of assassinating the colony ship's captain, despite a complete lack of proof. She's a psychopathic douchenozzle and often gets herself killed when she picks a fight with too many people at once, and is completely suspicious of anyone who picks a "value" other than "power." That said, if you beat her up and she surrenders, she actually means it, and will loyally serve you for the rest of the game. MRAs, rejoice! When playing as her the early game has nearly zero challenge as your crappy troopers come out with a few scars and a bad attitude but will quickly become fucking die-hard veterans before turn 5. If the Believers start really close you can basically just remove them from play at-will, same with Peacekeepers, to lesser extent with Gaia's Daughters and Cult of Planet. Psi-Combat is dependant on Morale and experience levels and the Spartans basically start pretty jacked up with these stats that smaller mindworms are free exp power ups. | ||
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Centauri α is the brightest star in the constellation of Centaurus. It is a binary star system, the third brightest star in the night sky, and the extrasolar star closest to our own besides Proxima Centauri (which may or may not be gravitationally bound to Alpha Centauri). In 2012 an Earth sized planet was discovered in the system, making it the closest known exoplanet.
It's a popular destination in near-future space RPGs.
But you're here because of the vidya gaem "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" (SMAC), which is not only a strategy game accepted and welcome on /tg/, but the faction leaders in the game are also a meme used in mild role-playing.
The Video Game
It's the spiritual successor to Civilization 2, and direct predecessor to Civilization 3 since it shares much of of the same dev team. One of the possible ending conditions of the Civilization games is to launch the first colony ship into space -- destination Alpha Centauri. Once they find a habitable planet, the team leaders suffer a political breakdown, culminating in the assassination of the colony ship's captain. Each team leader takes a part of the colony ship and some of the colonists in hibernation, and make planetfall. The game starts with your faction arriving, reviving the colonists for labour, and exploring the new world.
There will never be a sequel to Alpha Centauri because the intellectual property rights are a clusterfuck. But if you really want a spacey 4x game, there's still Galactic Civilizations 2, although unlike SMAC, GC2 is way, way, way the hell soft scifi and doesn't take itself seriously even for a moment. On this subject, SMAC is noted for adhering to science, or at least throwing around sciencey sounding terms quite well. Everything in the setting is just fudging with (then) current understanding of physics to do nifty things. Yes, even the psychic death worms who lay eggs in your brain.
Alternatively, there's Civilization: Beyond Earth, which is, if not a sequel, than at least a game built with the same creative DNA with some of the same concepts.
The Roleplaying Game
Steve Jackson Games made a GURPS sourcebook for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. The cover has a white border, which is unusual for GURPS splatbooks. You can usually find a scan of this book in 4chan's rapidshares catalog.
Some parts are pretty awesome, some are a little... meh. (The Spartans are generally crazier than they are even in the games.) It actually offers several suggestions for running a game set on Alpha Centauri, including ways to tweak the setting so that multi-faction parties are possible, though its attempts to integrate the "tech-levels" of the game into an overall narrative are a little... over the top.
The Factions
The elegan/tg/entlefolk, fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls will sometimes post to a thread with one of the faction leader portraits and respond in-character for that faction leader. This should help you understand what the fuck they're on about.
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The expansion pack Alien Crossfire upped the ante by adding new factions so criminally unbalanced they made the others obsolete.
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Links
You know how you said that there wouldn't be a second? Think aga- its Noblebright and meh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKew81njs5w