Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
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Alpha Centauri is a turn-based strategy 4X computer game created by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier under the auspices of Firaxis Games. It is based on a hypothetical attempt by human beings to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. It picks up where the game technological singularity. After this project is built people leave their material bodies to merge with the emerged planet intelligence. Note: The manual states that the Manifold Caretakers cannot win by Transcendence. This is incorrect. The Caretakers cannot build the Voice of Planet secret project, but because of a glitch in the game programming can build the Ascent to Transcendence secret project, this also causes the Caretakers to declare vendetta upon themselves and if they do win by transcendence the scorecard claims it as "0 objectives achieved" (but the score is not affected), both of which prove this was clearly unintended, but they can therefore transcend if another faction first builds the Voice of Planet secret project.
- Progenitor Victory
- Only the Progenitor factions can win with this victory condition. The player must construct the Resonance Communicator. The Resonance Communicator is a combination of six Subspace Generators. In order for the Subspace Generator to be activated it must be at a base size ten or larger. The Resonance Communicator is used to call the Progenitors' home fleet, which is much more powerful than all the human and the other Progenitor factions combined, so the player wins the game. Even if Cooperative victory is enabled only the faction that built the Resonance Communicator is considered to have won.
Further reading
For further reading, game story developer Michael Ely has written a trilogy of novels based on the game.
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