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* {{Feelies}}: The Virtual World Secret Project.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Richard Baxton, a character from one of the quotes, gets re-imagined as Recon Rover Rick for the sake of the in-universe {{Toyetic}} franchise, ''not'' Recon Rick. Yet people routinely skip the "Rover" part.
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Main_Page Alpha Centauri Wiki]].
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* WordOfGod: As noted by Bryan Reynolds, the lead dev behind the game, Miriam and the Lord Believers were deliberately made as annoying as feasible when controlled by AI. The point was to create an early-to-mid game nuisance for the players to deal with, as early game mind worms are few and far between. He even described the Believers as "a little dog trying to bite your ankle - not very dangerous, but annoying none the less". And since social engineering choices of Believers put them at odds with majority of factions by default, the faction is on constant offensive no matter who they are bordering.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.supercollider.
* TheWikiRule: [[https://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Main_Page Alpha Centauri Wiki]].
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* TheWikiRule: [[https://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Main_Page Alpha Centauri Wiki]].
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.supercollider.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.supercollider.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.
** One of the first secret projects you can build is the Human Genome Project, a real-life international research program to decode Human DNA that was ongoing when the game was made. Instead of still being a work-in-progress in 2060 when the ''Unity'' is launched, faster supercomputers allowed the project to be finished in 2003, four years after the game was released.
** As of 2022, we have complete information on human DNA, in the sense that all the genetic sequences are written down. But we still don't know what all the genes ''do.'' Given that the in-game Human Genome Project provides immediate morale benefits to all your bases (implied to be medical), it may represent a more thorough knowledge of human genetics than just having all the genes listed in a computer file.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.supercollider.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Being rooted in [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hard science]] while also trying to extrapolate future scientific developments meant that this was inevitable.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Being rooted in [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hard science]] science while also trying to extrapolate future scientific developments meant that this was inevitable.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.InformationWantsToBeFree.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.
** The "Abort, Retry, Fail" reference in the Matter Editation technology was already starting to fall out of common knowledge in computing circles as Microsoft Windows began to push away the usage of MS DOS, which is where most people would know the common error message from. The reference strongly dates the game, or at least the people behind it, to the 1990s.
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** The opening cutscene implies that the Space Shuttle Program will be responsible for helping to build the UNS ''Unity'' in a similar way to how it helped to build the International Space Station. However, the retirement of the Space Shuttle was announced in 2004 and the last mission took place in 2011, 49 years before the launch of the ''Unity''.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: In the game, there are no planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B. In RealLife, a planet was discovered in a (very) close orbit around Alpha Centauri B in late 2012.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: Being rooted in [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hard science]] while also trying to extrapolate future scientific developments meant that this was inevitable.
** In the game, there are no planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B. In RealLife, a planet was discovered in a (very) close orbit around Alpha Centauri B in late 2012.
** In the game, there are no planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B. In RealLife, a planet was discovered in a (very) close orbit around Alpha Centauri B in late 2012.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
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** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.supercollider.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It may be a ScienceFiction game about space colonization set in the 22nd century and beyond, but between ScienceMarchesOn (see above) and all the factions in the base game being based on some flavor of [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton-era]] American politics (see TheWarOnStraw on the YMMV page), it's very much the future by way of TheNineties. Even in the expansion, ''Alien Crossfire'', where the factions were more esoteric, the Data Angels have a distinctly '90s PostCyberpunk feel to them, with their radically democratic/anarchist hacker society and fervent belief that InformationWantsToBeFree.
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** Furthermore, the Human Genome Project has long since been completed. And it was hardly 'secret.'
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** Furthermore, the Human Genome Project has long since been completed. And it was hardly 'secret.''
** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
** On a related note, supercolliders (such as the LHC in Europe) have been around for decades. Hardly anything groundbreaking about the concept, let alone anything major enough to refer to one such device as "The" supercollider.
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* FakeNationality: Impressively averted for the most part, contributing to the realism and immersion. Firaxis specifically sought out voice actors who were natives of the regions their characters are from. However, there is one example of playing this straight in the vanilla game: Morgan is identified as Namibian but is voiced by the African-American Regi Davis, born and raised in Baltimore.
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* FakeNationality: Impressively averted for the most part, contributing to the realism and immersion. Firaxis specifically sought out voice actors who were natives of the regions their characters are from. However, there is one example of playing this straight in the vanilla game: Morgan is identified as Namibian but is voiced by the African-American Regi Davis, born and raised in Baltimore.Baltimore.
* ScienceMarchesOn: In the game, there are no planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B. In RealLife, a planet was discovered in a (very) close orbit around Alpha Centauri B in late 2012.
** Furthermore, the Human Genome Project has long since been completed. And it was hardly 'secret.'
* ScienceMarchesOn: In the game, there are no planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B. In RealLife, a planet was discovered in a (very) close orbit around Alpha Centauri B in late 2012.
** Furthermore, the Human Genome Project has long since been completed. And it was hardly 'secret.'
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* FakeNationality: Impressively averted for the most part, contributing to the realism and immersion. Firaxis specifically sought out voice actors who were natives of the regions their characters are from. However, there is one example of playing this straight in the vanilla game: Morgan is identified as Namibian but is voiced by the African-American Regi Davis, born and raised in Baltimore.
