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For the next video, I have to break a commitment. However, a broken pact for a better product is always worth the trade. - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Datalinks

"Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you."

Right in the nostalgia man.

Very good video.


This is not a sponsored message.

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." So many years later and I still remember that quote.

I like to imagine that while Alpha Centuari is turning into a nuclear blasted hellscape with war, Earth got back on it's feet and is now a paradise world that any citizen of Alpha Centuari would kill to be on.

"People need heroes!  They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out screaming!  After all, the real truth would only hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers."
Best quote ever!

"I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine—just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen."
-- Comissioner Pravin Lal ,"Man and Machine"

That montage of Alpha Centauri and Beyond Earth voiceovers made me feel that in SMAC even the "Do you really want to quit?" dialog had more personality than the Beyond Earth leaders.

Old PC CG cutscenes like these look odly charming to me.

When even the Quit Menu is a character

I remember this one hit me hard back then

"You are the children of a dead planet, EarthDeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question: will we too catch the planetdeath disease?"
   Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations With Planet"

"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."

Alpha Centauri was a true gem in the industry: a paragon of writing and voice acting that remains a major source of inspiration to this day. Its core strengths have stood the test of time.

There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.

The fun part about Miriam is that she starts the game being the most unreasonable leader, yet ends it being the most reasonable

"The Academician's private residences shall remain off-limits to the Genetic Inspectors. We possess no retro-viral capability, we are not researching retro-viral engineering, and we shall not allow this Council to violate faction privileges in the name of this ridiculous witch hunt! "

-- Fedor Petrov, Vice Provost for University Affairs

Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours-- the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.

   "Mythology for Profit", Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech

9:30 "Maybe Miriam will stop talking shit"
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

“It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.”
   — Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Ethics for Tomorrow”

"What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon?
Decent people shouldn't think too much about that."

– Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"