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* And if you're a different species then the one who transcends, [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will]] ''[[UpToEleven seriously fuck up your life]].''
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* And if you're a different species then the one who transcends, [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will]] ''[[UpToEleven seriously ''seriously fuck up your life]].life.''
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[[WMG: The Blooming Cycle is broken by [[ArchivePanic uploading]] Wiki/TVTropes into Planetmind.]]
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* And if you're a different species then the one who transcends, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will]] ''[[UpToEleven seriously fuck up your life]].''
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* And if you're a different species then the one who transcends, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will]] ''[[UpToEleven seriously fuck up your life]].''
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** This could also underscore the NotSoDifferent parallels to the world they've left behind: while ideology has replaced the old ethnicities and nationalities on Planet, the factions function and pretty much exist like the countries/nation-states they've abandoned.
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** This could also underscore the NotSoDifferent not so different parallels to the world they've left behind: while ideology has replaced the old ethnicities and nationalities on Planet, the factions function and pretty much exist like the countries/nation-states they've abandoned.
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*** Either that, or they were [[ThePrecursors The Ones Who Came Before]] who created the Pieces of Eden and created humanity in the first place.
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*** Either that, or they were [[ThePrecursors [[{{Precursors}} The Ones Who Came Before]] who created the Pieces of Eden and created humanity in the first place.
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* Jossed. Tau Ceti [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti is a star]], not a planet, and located in the constellation Cestus about twelve light-years away.
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[[WMG: The faction leaders are trying to become [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia the embodiments of their colonies]].]]
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[[WMG: The faction leaders are trying to become [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers the embodiments of their colonies]].]]
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*Creating models for the Add-on factions is interesting, due to the fact that their agenda and emphasis clash sometimes. It's obvious that Social Engineering was not made with them in mind, but then again, the devs probably saw it as a challenge to put some twists here and there.
** Aki Zeta-5 is interested in seeing the Consciousness Grow in numbers. Probably to counteract that awkward Growth penalty of theirs. So they will pick Democratic and Planned and avoid Green while being flexible on values. Now here is the thing. Usually a Growth focused society would go for Eudaimonia. But given that this is the Cybernetic Consciousness they are dead set for Cybernetics of course. And given that they won't get the usual penalties that comes along with it, why shouldn't they?
** Svensgaard wants his fleet Supported and well taken cared off. So he will go for Police State and Power. It may sound strange at first, since his faction is described as anarchic and decentralised, but it gets often alluded to ingame, that he gets pretty defensive if someone challenges his authority. And while he is the only human leader who has no ideological aversions, he will shun Democracy. He has no economic preferences and is the only leader who has no preferences in where he sees his faction in the future. As long as it is not Thought Control, of course.
** Domai is pretty straightforward. The Industrial juggernaut wants to expand his Industry, so he will pick Planned, Wealth and Eudaimonia. The Drones are politically flexible, whether it's Proletarian Democracy, Proletarian Autocracy or Proletarian Cult, as long as Communism reigns supreme, anything goes. They will avoid Power though. To prove they are not aggressors of course, even the Drone's MIC needs to share with the Commonwealth.
** Roze on the other hand is a little harder to explain. Especially since Probing in this game was a Miriam thing until then. Her fixation on Democracy prevents her from running a Theocracy. So far so good. The Angels are economically flexible, but they will avoid Knowledge as a value. In no way will the Angels compromise the security of their servers. Since they already have an aversion towards Power, this will leave their value with Wealth as the last remaining option or (basic) Survival. As for their future, it's highly likely that they may pick Thought Control. Maybe with Democracy as a checks and balance, maybe as a big game to crack each other's brains out of fun and challenge, since in the future, mechanical and biological matter is intertwined, but yet it leaves the doors open for the most powerful hacker to do with her peers as she pleases.
** Cha Dawn, thinking himself as the voice of Planet, will pick Green of course. And assuming they make it that far (since they are more of an early game rush kinda faction) Cybernetics. The Planet Cult will avoid Free Market and are (strangely) flexible when it comes to politics or values, as long as it is not Wealth.
** H'minee and the Caretakers want what is best for Manifold, yet are dead set for Planned, strangely (probably to help with growing the population). They will avoid Free Market under any circumstances but will pick Cybernetics to go full harmony. H'minee has no aversions whatsoever, so the Caretakers are super flexible when it comes to Politics and Values.
** Marr and the Usurpers also want what is best for Manifold, but Manifold even in it's dreamlike state isn't buying it. Not one bit. And them preferring Planned over Green kinda proves it. Marr will at least avoid damage by abstaining from Free Market (also to keep his people in check) and go Cybernetics for the harmony effect (but will only receive the Finger by Manifold). Marr doesn't care about values or politics as long as it isn't Democracy.
** Aki Zeta-5 is interested in seeing the Consciousness Grow in numbers. Probably to counteract that awkward Growth penalty of theirs. So they will pick Democratic and Planned and avoid Green while being flexible on values. Now here is the thing. Usually a Growth focused society would go for Eudaimonia. But given that this is the Cybernetic Consciousness they are dead set for Cybernetics of course. And given that they won't get the usual penalties that comes along with it, why shouldn't they?
** Svensgaard wants his fleet Supported and well taken cared off. So he will go for Police State and Power. It may sound strange at first, since his faction is described as anarchic and decentralised, but it gets often alluded to ingame, that he gets pretty defensive if someone challenges his authority. And while he is the only human leader who has no ideological aversions, he will shun Democracy. He has no economic preferences and is the only leader who has no preferences in where he sees his faction in the future. As long as it is not Thought Control, of course.
** Domai is pretty straightforward. The Industrial juggernaut wants to expand his Industry, so he will pick Planned, Wealth and Eudaimonia. The Drones are politically flexible, whether it's Proletarian Democracy, Proletarian Autocracy or Proletarian Cult, as long as Communism reigns supreme, anything goes. They will avoid Power though. To prove they are not aggressors of course, even the Drone's MIC needs to share with the Commonwealth.
** Roze on the other hand is a little harder to explain. Especially since Probing in this game was a Miriam thing until then. Her fixation on Democracy prevents her from running a Theocracy. So far so good. The Angels are economically flexible, but they will avoid Knowledge as a value. In no way will the Angels compromise the security of their servers. Since they already have an aversion towards Power, this will leave their value with Wealth as the last remaining option or (basic) Survival. As for their future, it's highly likely that they may pick Thought Control. Maybe with Democracy as a checks and balance, maybe as a big game to crack each other's brains out of fun and challenge, since in the future, mechanical and biological matter is intertwined, but yet it leaves the doors open for the most powerful hacker to do with her peers as she pleases.
** Cha Dawn, thinking himself as the voice of Planet, will pick Green of course. And assuming they make it that far (since they are more of an early game rush kinda faction) Cybernetics. The Planet Cult will avoid Free Market and are (strangely) flexible when it comes to politics or values, as long as it is not Wealth.
** H'minee and the Caretakers want what is best for Manifold, yet are dead set for Planned, strangely (probably to help with growing the population). They will avoid Free Market under any circumstances but will pick Cybernetics to go full harmony. H'minee has no aversions whatsoever, so the Caretakers are super flexible when it comes to Politics and Values.
** Marr and the Usurpers also want what is best for Manifold, but Manifold even in it's dreamlike state isn't buying it. Not one bit. And them preferring Planned over Green kinda proves it. Marr will at least avoid damage by abstaining from Free Market (also to keep his people in check) and go Cybernetics for the harmony effect (but will only receive the Finger by Manifold). Marr doesn't care about values or politics as long as it isn't Democracy.
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* Zakharov and the University engaged in a titanic late-game war against the Gaians post-Lab Three. Quotes from Zakharov tend to imply they had finished out the tech tree and their Singularity Reactor, Singularity Laser-armed, Stasis Generator-shielded hovertanks and gravships took on the Gaian's mindworm boils. Planet Busters may have been involved. Eventually Zak crunches the numbers and realizes that, with the nigh-apocalyptic state of Planet in the late game (unchecked fungal blooms, enormous wild Mind Worm boils, and flooding), he's not going to win this war in time for humanity to survive. So he builds the Voice of Planet and is there at the end. Zak's Social Engineering is hard to suss - Police State seems required for the late game war and to counteract his natural Drones problem. His economy might well have been Green, if only to avoid the crippling inefficiency of Police State/Planned and the problems Free Market creates for war. At least we know he was definitely running Knowledge and Cybernetic.
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** Deirdre's focus is on Planet, so she will most definitely run Green and Cybernetics. Other than that she'd rather spend time in her gardens rather than discuss politics or on what values Gaian society should run.
* Zakharov and the University engaged in a titanic late-game war against the Gaians post-Lab Three. Quotes from Zakharov tend to imply they had finished out the tech tree and their Singularity Reactor, Singularity Laser-armed, Stasis Generator-shielded hovertanks and gravships took on the Gaian's mindworm boils. Planet Busters may have been involved. Eventually Zak crunches the numbers and realizes that, with the nigh-apocalyptic state of Planet in the late game (unchecked fungal blooms, enormous wild Mind Worm boils, and flooding), he's not going to win this war in time for humanity to survive. So he builds the Voice of Planet and is there at the end. Zak's Social Engineering is hard to suss - Police State seems required for the late game war and to counteract his natural Drones problem. His economy might well have been Green, if only to avoid the crippling inefficiency of Police State/Planned and the problems Free Market creates for war. At least we know he was definitely running Knowledge andCybernetic.Cybernetic.
** Zakharov is apolitical and he doesn't care about economic models as well as long as they provide him with grants for his Research. So Knowledge and Cybernetics is where it's at.
* Zakharov and the University engaged in a titanic late-game war against the Gaians post-Lab Three. Quotes from Zakharov tend to imply they had finished out the tech tree and their Singularity Reactor, Singularity Laser-armed, Stasis Generator-shielded hovertanks and gravships took on the Gaian's mindworm boils. Planet Busters may have been involved. Eventually Zak crunches the numbers and realizes that, with the nigh-apocalyptic state of Planet in the late game (unchecked fungal blooms, enormous wild Mind Worm boils, and flooding), he's not going to win this war in time for humanity to survive. So he builds the Voice of Planet and is there at the end. Zak's Social Engineering is hard to suss - Police State seems required for the late game war and to counteract his natural Drones problem. His economy might well have been Green, if only to avoid the crippling inefficiency of Police State/Planned and the problems Free Market creates for war. At least we know he was definitely running Knowledge and
** Zakharov is apolitical and he doesn't care about economic models as well as long as they provide him with grants for his Research. So Knowledge and Cybernetics is where it's at.
** Lal is dedicated to the original mission. So he sees to it that the Peacekeeper settlements Grow and prosper. For this he will take Democracy, Planned and Eudaimonia. He lets the Peacekeeping community decide on which motto they run their society, but he will stall implementing Green economics as long as possible.
** Morgan pretty much has a de facto unique victory condition which was tailored for him (de facto because technically everyone else can reach it as well, but none of them can hope to outMorgan THE Morgan in his own game). Either he corners the energy market, wins and has nothing else to add, because for him there is nothing else to add. Or he loses and it's game over for him. Whether he wins or loses, he is out of the story. He will run Free Market/Wealth/Eudaimonia and just like irl pure unadulterated capitalism runs with every government.
** Santiago wants a motivated military so she will pick up everything that will boost Morale, which means Theocracy/Power/Thought Control. She doesn't care about economy as long as the money flows into military and she will avoid Eudaimonia as much as she's avoiding wealth since it creates content citizens. Which simply won't do, because a Spartan citizen must always be vigilant and contentment creates complacency.
** Miriam may reject technology, but she must also be pragmatic in this issue, since falling too far behind may spell doom to her faction early on, no matter how zealous and eager her armies are, so she must create a perfect environment for her Probe teams to thrive and conduct operations from. So she will roll a Fundamentalist society with Thought Control as it's endgame. There is no strict dogma on Economy and Values are also free to choose from as long as it is not Knowledge.
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** Yang wants to Police his population. He has something to teach to his peeps and like a strict teacher will look over everyone making sure they are doing their homework properly on an hourly base, separating mind from matter and so on. So the most obvious choices are Police State and Thought Control. He won't care about values, picking them up as he sees fit for the current situation the Hive is at right now, same as for economics. While Planned is the obvious choice, he may go over to Green sometimes, but he will most definitely avoid Free Market. Same for Cybernetics. The population must be kept busy. Under no circumstances shall they be exposed to unemployment.
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*Sadly unlike vanilla Alpha Centauri, there are too few quotes from the new guys to draw conclusions from how things went down. It is safe to assume that Alien Crossfire plays in a parallel timeline from the original Alpha Centauri game, where the Progenitors didn't made any landings. In that timeline the seven colony pods were stable and solid enough on their own to prevent offshots. In Alien Crossfire the arrival of the Progenitors 10 years after Planetfall changed the political landscape dramatically. It is safe to assume that Yang and Marr made a pact, probably due to their common anti-democratic tendencies, which caught the ire of the Caretakes as well as caused a chain reaction among human faction, where the ones opposing the Hive and fearing disadvantaged joined up with the Caretaker, which in turn drove other factions into the hands of the Usurpers and so on. War at this early stage spelled doom for the fledgling colonies and made space for the offshots to establish their own.
*So who won the Alien Crossfire war? The humans did. Which one? All 5 of them. Because the only way for humans to have a chance at winning against the gameplay-wise purposely overpowered Progenitor factions is to blanda up. Hints to this exist within a Progenitor individual named Kri'lan, also known as The Betrayer, who defected to the Planet Cult, and other factions being somewhat aware of that implies that Cha Dawn was cooperating with them by passing Progenitor knowledge along with his allies. Also of note is that both alien factions are extremely aggressive as well and if you didn't pick a side as a human, chance are high that sooner or later they will both attack you. So their first task was to eliminate Marr, because being the more offensive of the two alien faction he was probably gnawing at their territory anyway. Also Marr's transcendence victory is explicitly described as being very inconvenient for the humans so he was the obvious first target. And they were quite successful with it, as Marr experienced an Oh Crap! moment when attacking Aki Zeta-5's base, realising that those shaved monkeys were capable of technology of their own, unknown to Progenitors. Once he was dealt with, they probably started to aim for a transcendence victory themselves, because fighting against the defensively built Caretakers was a war of never ending attrition (even more so than your average 4X game) which even took a toll on the diligent Drones. How this went down? Hard to say, since without the distraction caused by the Usurpers, it was hard for H'minee to tackle all five of them at once.
*Sadly unlike vanilla Alpha Centauri, there are too few quotes from the new guys to draw conclusions from how things went down. It is safe to assume that Alien Crossfire plays in a parallel timeline from the original Alpha Centauri game, where the Progenitors didn't made any landings. In that timeline the seven colony pods were stable and solid enough on their own to prevent offshots. In Alien Crossfire the arrival of the Progenitors 10 years after Planetfall changed the political landscape dramatically. It is safe to assume that Yang and Marr made a pact, probably due to their common anti-democratic tendencies, which caught the ire of the Caretakes as well as caused a chain reaction among human faction, where the ones opposing the Hive and fearing disadvantaged joined up with the Caretaker, which in turn drove other factions into the hands of the Usurpers and so on. War at this early stage spelled doom for the fledgling colonies and made space for the offshots to establish their own.
*So who won the Alien Crossfire war? The humans did. Which one? All 5 of them. Because the only way for humans to have a chance at winning against the gameplay-wise purposely overpowered Progenitor factions is to blanda up. Hints to this exist within a Progenitor individual named Kri'lan, also known as The Betrayer, who defected to the Planet Cult, and other factions being somewhat aware of that implies that Cha Dawn was cooperating with them by passing Progenitor knowledge along with his allies. Also of note is that both alien factions are extremely aggressive as well and if you didn't pick a side as a human, chance are high that sooner or later they will both attack you. So their first task was to eliminate Marr, because being the more offensive of the two alien faction he was probably gnawing at their territory anyway. Also Marr's transcendence victory is explicitly described as being very inconvenient for the humans so he was the obvious first target. And they were quite successful with it, as Marr experienced an Oh Crap! moment when attacking Aki Zeta-5's base, realising that those shaved monkeys were capable of technology of their own, unknown to Progenitors. Once he was dealt with, they probably started to aim for a transcendence victory themselves, because fighting against the defensively built Caretakers was a war of never ending attrition (even more so than your average 4X game) which even took a toll on the diligent Drones. How this went down? Hard to say, since without the distraction caused by the Usurpers, it was hard for H'minee to tackle all five of them at once.
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** Alternately, Zak used a biblical phrase for his Magnum Opus specifically to {{Troll}} the religious groups who disapprove of his scientific efforts, by [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation framing humanity's supposed fall from grace as a positive event.]] Much in the same way that some atheists study the Bible so that they can better point out its flaws to blind adherents.
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** Alternately, Zak used a biblical phrase for his Magnum Opus specifically to {{Troll}} the religious groups who disapprove of his scientific efforts, by [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation framing humanity's supposed fall from grace as a positive event.]] Much in the same way that some atheists study the Bible so that they can better point out its flaws to blind adherents.adherents.
* A better "love story" is represented with Domai and Aki-Zeta 5. Usually they get along very well and compensate each other's weaknesses, that is until the future gives them a nasty divorce, since they can't agree on a Future Society together. It goes downhill from here fast.
* A better "love story" is represented with Domai and Aki-Zeta 5. Usually they get along very well and compensate each other's weaknesses, that is until the future gives them a nasty divorce, since they can't agree on a Future Society together. It goes downhill from here fast.
