Trivia / Civilization: Beyond Earth

• Official Fan-Submitted Content: Vadim Kozlov's speech was originally written by the Russian-language gaming magazine Igromania and only then rendered into English.
• Shrug of God: The developers have their own version of the backstory used during development, however, they have explicitly stated that this is not canon and the details of what happened are left up to the player's imagination.
• What Could Have Been: In this retrospective, the co-lead designers reveal that there was originally a lot more lore and more ambitious plans that were held back out of misplaced fear of breaking too far from past Civ.