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*** Most likely Jossed, since Kozlov is HappilyMarried (and has taken both his wife and his kids on the mission). Unless his family is TheBeard, and Kozlov is an ArmoredClosetedGay, it's more likely that he's as straight as the rocket he flew in on.

** Alternatively, these may be [[CanadaEh Canadians]], just replacing the Cowboy tropes [[MightyLumberjack with Lumberjacks]].

* If this theory is true, then the Emancipation Victory involves sending an [[CoolVsAwesome army of fracking robot cyborgs]] [[BetterThanCanon to defeat evil dictator Gandhi.]] You sir, are JustForFun/MadeOfWin.

* [[ViceCity Anarchist Britain]] (Placeholder name): After [[UpperClassTwit the high-and-mighty cultural values of Franco-Iberia]] failed to bear fruit within what was left of the EU, a loose coalition of {{The Mean Brit}}s, {{Violent Glaswegian}}s, FightingIrish, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Wild Welsh]] staged a little "[[Music/SexPistols Anarchy in the UK]]", and [[SlobsVsSnobs chased out the Franco-Iberians from the British Isles]]. They then embodied the idea of AnarchyIsChaos, turning the major cities of England into {{Wretched Hive}}s where there are MoreCriminalsThanTargets - the only reason they've built a space ship is because their leader has proven to be a particularly ambitious crime lord who thinks of not just settling for ruling the English criminal underworld when a ''whole planet'' of targets is ripe for the plucking. In VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri terms, it's The Nautilus Pirates, although closer to {{London Gangster}}s, FootballHooligans and {{British Rock Star}}s than RuthlessModernPirates (Heck, I can even imagine "[[Music/TheClash London Calling]]" being the unofficial national anthem for these guys...).

* Alternatively, it could have been caused by the AlwaysChaoticEvil Barbarians, who might very well be the BiggerBad of Civilization.

[[WMG: Kavitha Thakur is a [[NationsAsPeople Personified]] [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Nation]].]]

[[WMG: The Great Mistake was caused by Ghandi.]]
While they are leaving it deliberately ambiguous, the developers of the game have claimed that the Great Mistake could have been a nuclear exchange in Asia. Now, who in the Civilization series is nuke-happy enough to launch them at another nuclear power, ''and'' lives in Asia? Ghandi, the true BigBad of the Civilization series. As corollary to this, the reason that the Supremacy victory involves invading Earth is not because ScienceIsBad, but because Ghandi rules over it as a cruel dictator.
* If this theory is true, then the Emancipation Victory involves sending an [[CoolVsAwesome army of fracking robot cyborgs]] [[BetterThanCanon to defeat evil dictator Ghandi.]] You sir, are JustForFun/MadeOfWin.
* And that means the Promised Land Victory makes you the herald of Nuke-crazy Ghandi, who proceeds to conquer the planet, probably using said nukes. Yay?

* 1. *Civ you don't like* (probably Ghandi) completes the Utopia Project, which causes everybody to forget their "native" culture and go for the FalseUtopia Schtick of your opponent hook line and sinker.

** Supremacists wants to send reinforcements back to Earth so that they can liberate from the evils of the NewWorldOrder.

EXALT is seemingly very heavily decentralized, so destroying their headquarters would just slow them down, not stop them completely. Since XCOM appears in [[{{Civilization}} Civ 5]], and the science victory is essentially the beginning of Beyond Earth, you can draw connections. As for evidence that they're a front? Look at the [[https://downloads.2kgames.com/civdotcom/img/blog/2KGMKT_CIV_BE_LEADER_PROFILE_IMAGE_ARC.jpg ARC symbol]] and compare it to the [[http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131126161322/xcom/images/c/ca/XCOM_EW_EXALT_Symbol.png EXALT]] symbol. The Doylist explanation is that both symbols are designed to evoke Illuminati conspiracy theories, but a Watsonian explanation would be that they are simply two different sides of the same organization.

* [[ViceCity Anarchist Britain]] (Placeholder name): After [[UpperClassTwit the high-and-mighty cultural values of Franco-Iberia]] failed to bear fruit within what was left of the EU, a loose coalition of {{The Mean Brit}}s, {{Violent Glaswegian}}s, FightingIrish, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Wild Welsh]] staged a little "[[SexPistols Anarchy in the UK]]", and [[SlobsVsSnobs chased out the Franco-Iberians from the British Isles]]. They then embodied the idea of AnarchyIsChaos, turning the major cities of England into {{Wretched Hive}}s where there are MoreCriminalsThanTargets - the only reason they've built a space ship is because their leader has proven to be a particularly ambitious crime lord who thinks of not just settling for ruling the English criminal underworld when a ''whole planet'' of targets is ripe for the plucking. In VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri terms, it's The Nautilus Pirates, although closer to {{London Gangster}}s, FootballHooligans and {{British Rock Star}}s than RuthlessModernPirates (Heck, I can even imagine "[[Music/TheClash London Calling]]" being the unofficial national anthem for these guys...).

** Alternatively, [[TheKingdom The Danubian Federation]]: After Franco-Iberian cultural pretentions fail to bear fruit and as turmoil engulfs Europe, a populist figure with ties [[TheSoundOfMartialMusic to the Habsburg monarchs of yore]] is crowned Emperor in Austria and Hungary, which form the basis of a new union that encompasses those parts of Central and Eastern Europe not under the Slavic Federation. But whereas Franco-Iberia tries to uphold the ''crème de la crème'' of Europe, the Danubians take it to its logical conclusion: a near total emphasis on cultural preservation, purity and a zealous streak in preserving the Old World's order, both good and ill. Paradoxically, this nigh xenophobic and fervent emphasis serves as a glue that binds the myriad ethnic, religious and national groups making up the realm, which would make them in a sense reminiscent to the Lord's Believers in VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri. And as the world continues to spiral out of control, the Emperor decides to send the best and brightest of the Danube off-world in the hopes of ensuring the continuity, and purity, of the "true" heirs to European civilization.

* If this theory is true, then the Emancipation Victory involves sending an [[CoolVsAwesome army of fracking robot cyborgs]] [[BetterThanCanon to defeat evil dictator Ghandi.]] You sir, are MadeOfWin.

There are a number of HPLovecraft references in the game. The survivors are those who were mentally stable enough to resist the eldritch insanity.

* [[{{Eagleland}} The New Patriots]]: After the [[MegaCorp ARC]] had [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica subjected the American people]] [[OneNationUnderCopyright to economic domination]] [[BigBrotherIsWatching and political tyranny]], a bunch of would-be "New Founding Fathers" [[LaResistance went revolution on their ass]], taking equal cues from the [[EatTheRich anti-corporate "Occupy Wall Street" protests]], and the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic anti-government "Tea Partier" movements]]. The end result was an America made of rugged blue collar workers who [[WorkingClassHero were hard-working and industrious]], but also [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons scorned most technological advancements]] [[ScienceIsBad as just being tools for "The Man"]]. But ultimately, even they realized that they couldn't sustain the FallenStatesOfAmerica they were left with, and scraped together just enough resources to send their own space colony after The Seeding ships. They will be a bit more stereotypical in America portrayals (probably taking the AmericansAreCowboys tropes to SpaceCowboy levels), but mostly serve as the opposite of the ARC - [[SpaceWestern the Patriots are space pioneers]] [[HumbleHero who live more simply and honestly]] than the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive stuck-up, money-grubbing ARC executive]], and also don't fall to the same ChronicBackstabbingDisorder the ARC uses either. Don't think they're pushovers, though: where the ARC prides itself by [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous having cutting-edge black ops teams that operate in secrecy]], [[UnskilledButStrong the Patriots are able to pack more punch behind their firearms, even if it's technologically behind everybody else]]. In terms of SidMeiersAlphaCentauri {{Expy}}s, it's the Free Drones, who pride industrialism and the common man over the technological and economic elite.

* [[ViceCity Anarchist Britain]] (Placeholder name): After [[UpperClassTwit the high-and-mighty cultural values of Franco-Iberia]] failed to bear fruit within what was left of the EU, a loose coalition of {{The Mean Brit}}s, {{Violent Glaswegian}}s, FightingIrish, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Wild Welsh]] staged a little "[[SexPistols Anarchy in the UK]]", and [[SlobsVsSnobs chased out the Franco-Iberians from the British Isles]]. They then embodied the idea of AnarchyIsChaos, turning the major cities of England into {{Wretched Hive}}s where there are MoreCriminalsThanTargets - the only reason they've built a space ship is because their leader has proven to be a particularly ambitious crime lord who thinks of not just settling for ruling the English criminal underworld when a ''whole planet'' of targets is ripe for the plucking. In SidMeiersAlphaCentauri terms, it's The Nautilus Pirates, although closer to {{London Gangster}}s, FootballHooligans and {{British Rock Star}}s than RuthlessModernPirates (Heck, I can even imagine "[[Music/TheClash London Calling]]" being the unofficial national anthem for these guys...).

*** I admit that I'm stretching the lore just a bit here, but the backstory claimed that Franco-Iberia was formed after the rest of the European Union fell - I took this to mean that they would expand their power across what was left of Europe, and would've naturally tried to gain a foothold in the British Isles while they were doing that - at least, whatever wasn't put below sea level by The Great Mistake. I also think that the Pan-Asian Cooperative already corners the "industrialist" market, so an "Industrialist Pan-Germanic Nordic Union" sounds just a little bit redundant. Plus, I wanted the foils to be the absolute opposite of the preexisting faction's ideology, as well as be "darker" for being formed when [[AfterTheEnd the world begins sliding into outright chaos following The Great Mistake]]: Franco-Iberia is full of {{Upper Class Twit}}s that are DoingItForTheArt? Naturally, their rivals would be {{Lower Class Lout}}s that RapePillageAndBurn! Plus, I couldn't think of a better faction to form an ArmyOfThievesAndWhores a-la the Nautilus Pirates of SidMeiersAlphaCentauri, so here they are! [[note]][[OnSecondThought actually, now that I think about it]], perhaps they can even be RuthlessModernPirates like the Nautilus Pirates, with the excuse being [[HadToBeSharp they had to develop naval warfare and water-borne settlements to avoid being submerged with the rest of Britain...]][[/note]]
** Alternatively, [[TheKingdom The Danubian Federation]]: After Franco-Iberian cultural pretentions fail to bear fruit and as turmoil engulfs Europe, a populist figure with ties [[TheSoundOfMartialMusic to the Habsburg monarchs of yore]] is crowned Emperor in Austria and Hungary, which form the basis of a new union that encompasses those parts of Central and Eastern Europe not under the Slavic Federation. But whereas Franco-Iberia tries to uphold the ''crème de la crème'' of Europe, the Danubians take it to its logical conclusion: a near total emphasis on cultural preservation, purity and a zealous streak in preserving the Old World's order, both good and ill. Paradoxically, this nigh xenophobic and fervent emphasis serves as a glue that binds the myriad ethnic, religious and national groups making up the realm, which would make them in a sense reminiscent to the Lord's Believers in SidMeiersAlphaCentauri. And as the world continues to spiral out of control, the Emperor decides to send the best and brightest of the Danube off-world in the hopes of ensuring the continuity, and purity, of the "true" heirs to European civilization.

[[WMG: The ''[[SidMeiersAlphaCentauri UNS Unity]]'' will serve as mankind's last Seeding mission.]]

Civilization V has a rather eerie opening narration for each leader, where the narrator appears to address himself to that leader, praising their historical accomplishments, mentioning things like the year of their death and how they were remembered, offering them a new chance "to stand the test of time". The narrator is in fact a Progenitor who, in true SufficientlyAdvancedAlien fashion, has just raised that leader from the dead, turned them into TheAgeless and brought them to an Earth-like planet so they can experience the full scope of human history. The narrator later recognizes the leader as an equal if they can dominate the cultural, diplomatic or military scene of the planet, or if they can reach the stars with their own spaceship.

[[WMG: The Great Mistake was related to the events of XCOMEnemyUnknown.]]

[[WMG: Harmony is an evolution of the [[VideoGame/XcomEnemyUnknown G-mods]] and supremacy evolved from [[VideoGame/XcomEnemyUnknown MEC troopers]].]]
Harmony is about genetic modfication, like the G-mods. Supremacy is about cybernetic augmentation, like the MEC troopers. Perhaps the doctors wrote books about there transhuman beliefs, inspiring Harmony and Supremacy.

[[WMG: The American Reclamation Corporation is a front organization for [[XcomEnemyUnknown EXALT]].]]

* [[ViceCity Anarchist Britain]] (Placeholder name): After [[UpperClassTwit the high-and-mighty cultural values of Franco-Iberia]] failed to bear fruit within what was left of the EU, a loose coalition of {{The Mean Brit}}s, {{Violent Glaswegian}}s, FightingIrish, and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Wild Welsh]] staged a little "[[SexPistols Anarchy in the UK]]", and [[SlobsVsSnobs chased out the Franco-Iberians from the British Isles]]. They then embodied the idea of AnarchyIsChaos, turning the major cities of England into {{Wretched Hive}}s where there are MoreCriminalsThanTargets - the only reason they've built a space ship is because their leader has proven to be a particularly ambitious crime lord who thinks of not just settling for ruling the English criminal underworld when a ''whole planet'' of targets is ripe for the plucking. In SidMeiersAlphaCentauri terms, it's The Nautilus Pirates, although closer to {{London Gangster}}s, FootballHooligans and {{British Rock Star}}s than RuthlessModernPirates (Heck, I can even imagine "[[TheClash London Calling]]" being the unofficial national anthem for these guys...).

Which means that bit about "using espionage to topple dictatorships" isn't just a front; they've done it before, and on a high-profile target to boot. It also means any resemblance between Chungsu and North Korea nowadays is due to HeWhoFightsMonsters.