History NightmareFuel / SidMeiersAlphaCentauri

* According to the GURPS supplement, the Spartan Federation, like their namesake, are so adamant about their social darwinist ideology that they will gladly commit ''infanticide'' if the baby in question is sickly or otherwise unfit to be a warrior.

--> ''Of all the employments, working in the the brood pit was at once the most horrific and the most desirable. Horrific for what we saw occur day after day, and because of the very nature of the sessile native lifeforms. Desirable, because having being chosen to work in the pit, [[WhamLine you were highly unlikely to be one of its victims.]] -- Captain Ulrik Svensgaard'' "The Shadow Resonance"''

--> ''Of all the employments, working in the the brood pit was at once the most horrific and the most desirable. Horrific for what we saw occur day after day, and because of the very nature of the sessile native lifeforms. Desirable, because having being chosen to work in the pit, [[WhamLine you were highly unlikely to be one of its victims.]]''
''-- Captain Ulrik Svensgaard'' "The Shadow Resonance"

--> ''It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
--Chairman Shen-Ji Yang, Ethics For Tomorrow.''

--> ''We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a [[BrainInAJar brain in a tank]] somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? [[AndIMustScream And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?]]
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. [[HeKnowsTooMuch (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)]]''

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467.
--> [[HeKnowsTooMuch (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)]]''

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. [[HeKnowsTooMuch (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)]]''

--> ''It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people. --Chairman Shen-Ji Yang, Ethics For Tomorrow.''

* One disturbing implication if you're playing as Cha Dawn is that if their attempt at Transcendence somehow fails then it is a sign that Planet is rejecting humanity. As far as the Cult is concerned, humanity has already ruined one planet and clearly isn't worthy of living with this one, so the plan becomes wipe out every other human faction on Planet and then commit mass suicide. Yikes.

* Not to mention all the graphic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L5JgTkxAkg descriptions]] of what mind worms do to people.
--> ''"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. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath 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
* Whenever a base that belongs to a human faction falls to the progenitors, no matter how heavily populated the base was, [[DepopulationBomb the population will be instantly reduced to one]], with a few colony pods fleeing the city. The game makes it clear that it averts the NoBiochemicalBarriers trope, and since humans and progenitors are biologically incompatible, they cannot peacefully coexist under the same government and had to be 'removed'. All those citizens that were unable to escape via the colony pods were [[KillAllHumans slaughtered mercilessly by the alien soldiers]] and had [[HumanResources their bodies recycled for resources]]. And most of the time, most of the escaping colony pod will be chased down and destroyed by the aliens before they can make it to safety.

* The torture scene when you defeat a faction is a little disturbing.

-->[[AndIMustScream Then the Sphere closes around you, and soon nothing else matters.]]

*** "I still have it, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say..." -- Prokhor Zakharov displaying the lab animal used in the first live teleportation experiment. Though, alternatively, it could have just meant that the rat is perfectly fine.

** "We must dissent..." from the Self-Aware colony was really chilling the first time, and it is still creepy It's basically the "Ubiquitous Law Enforcement" of Vernor Vinge's novels come to life.

** "We must dissent..." from the Self-Aware colony was really chilling the first time, and it still creeps me out. It's basically the "Ubiquitous Law Enforcement" of Vernor Vinge's novels come to life.

** Even years later, I've still never been able to watch The Dream Twister's video all the way through.
*** Made even worse by the near total silence - it's the only secret project video in the game without a voiceover (the text given above briefly unrolls on-screen at the end of the video).

** When you realize exactly what Nerve Stapling is. Brrrr.

* We must dissent...

** [[IronicNurseryTune Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow]]. - Assassins' Redoubt, [[ApocalypticLog Final Transmission]].

* The Mind Worm's method of attack, and several of the Secret Project videos may freak you out considerably.
--> "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.

** "We must dissent..." from the Self-Aware colony was really chilling the first time, and it still creeps me out.

** The torture scene when you defeat a faction is a little disturbing.
*** When you realize exactly what Nerve Stapling is. Brrrr.
**** It matches the description of a Punishment Sphere according to the GURPS supplement. No wonder bases with them have their research halved and lose the ability of their citizens to become talents. Not only that, the GURPS supplement says that it is based on nerve stapling, but instead of performing it every few hours, it does it around every five minutes.
** As for the Secret Projects:
*** "We must dissent..." from the Self-Aware colony was really chilling the first time, and it still creeps me out.
*** The sudden audio distortion in Zakharovs' speech for the Singularity Inductor is pretty disturbing. Hell, he's probably the single creepiest character in the game, far outstripping Yang. His clinical descriptions of his research often get very disturbing.
*** "I still have it, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say..." -- Prokhor Zakharov displaying the lab animal used in the first live teleportation experiment. Though, alternatively, it could have just meant that the rat is perfectly fine.

--> ''"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. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath 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

** Losing to the [[StarfishAliens Progenitors.]]

* Whenever a base that belongs to a human faction falls to the progenitors, no matter how heavily populated the base was, [[DepopulationBomb the population will be instantly reduced to one]], with a few colony pods fleeing the city. The game makes it clear that it averts the NoBiochemicalBarriers trope, and since humans and progenitors are biologically incompatible, they cannot peacefully coexist under the same government and had to be 'removed'. All those citizens that were unable to escape via the colony pods were [[KillAllHumans slaughtered mercilessly by the alien soldiers]] and had [[HumanResources their bodies recycled for resources]]. And most of the time, most of the escaping colony pod will be chased down and destroyed by the aliens before they can make it to safety.

* Whenever a base that belongs to a human faction falls to the progenitors, no matter how big the base was, [[DepopulationBomb the population will be instantly reduced to one]], with a few colony pods fleeing the city. The game makes it clear that it averts the NoBiochemicalBarriers trope, and since humans and progenitors being biologically incompatible, all those citizens that were unable to escape via the colony pods were [[KillAllHumans slaughtered mercilessly by the alien soldiers]] and had [[HumanResources their bodies recycled for resources]]. And most of the time, most of the escaping colony pod will be chased down and destroyed by the aliens before they can make it to safety.

* We must dissent...