#sid meier's alpha centauri

[grayrazor]

Media I’ve been enjoying to maintain the space exploration vibes.

[light4chiron]

Happy Birthday, Deirdre Skye!

Deirdre Skye is born on this day, the 28th of May 2025.

Deirdre is the leader one of the more popular factions, and with good reason. Gaia’s Stepdaughters are fun to play, sympathetic (bad enough that Chiron is already Planet B for humanity, they don’t want yet another planet trashed, but they also care about people), and, from the flavour text, the closest the game has to a protagonist faction.

I’ve posted a drabble to commemorate this occasion.

However, the best way to celebrate is of course to work on protecting our own planet, Earth.

[ryunumber]

What's the Ryu number for Lady Deirdre Sky from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri?

Lady Deirdre Sky has a Ryu Number of 3.

(explanation below)

Meier's appearance in Civ IV is explained further here. Getting him to show up in Alpha Centauri does require a bit more out-of-game work (specifically, running faction edit executable and loading the preset Firaxian faction with a code), which you could take issue with, but since it's possible to do out of the box and is unambiguously Sid Meier, I'm counting it.

[the-hittite]

Chairman Yang told me mind worms keep eating his bases so I asked how many bases he has and he said he just builds a colony pod and gets a new one afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding colonists to mind worms and then his drones started crying

[maklodes]

This is an old snowclone about an even older game, but...

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri leaders as Dril tweets:

Sister Miriam Godwinson: blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin

Commissioner Pravin Lal: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and NIce manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT

CEO Nwabudike Morgan: a new face steps into a rowdy roadside bar somewehre along Interstate 22.. back of his leather jacket says "Trickle Down Economics Are Real"

Colonel Corazón Santiago: closing my eyes and mentally visuelizing my enemies bodies, in 3d , to analyze them for weak points

Lady Deirdre Skye: mean while, while you were "Gaming ", i tasted 100 different wines in a cave behind a waterfall and cried into a shaman's arms

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang: i put years of hard work into getting my torture degree at torture college & now everyones like "oh tortures bad","its ineffective" fuck off

Academician Prokhor Zakharov: committing unforgivable crimes against nautre in my laboratory ,trying to create the next genetically discombobulated meme animal

Anyone know good ones for Alien Crossfire folks? Or have other suggestions for the original ones? I wished I had been able to find a less obscure one that fit Morgan.

[inkobsessedfreak]

I've been playing Alpha Centauri a bit

[absenceofgravitas]

revisiting the old games and remembering how the SMAC expansion got kinda goofy with the factions

[oddzmozdobz]

Spartan impact infantry concept for Alpha Centauri

So I thought the martial philosophy of the Spartans might lead to some implications in their clothing and weaponry. Armour plates offer advanced protection, and the large-bore impact gun is perfect for target shooting in Chiron's atmosphere. The Spartan soldier is trained to a keen edge and equipped to fight the bloodiest struggles. But of what use is armour plate and an impact cannon against a boil of mindworms? The Spartan soldier is a perfect anachronism, as the Gaians would discover.

I sketched this when I saw a brilliant helmet in the background of an Adam Savage video on YT. It was probably a German helmet from the world wars, made up and modeled to for a sci-fi prop. Got me thinking about martial cultures in sci-fi. It's inspo for my crude impression of it here.