What is considered canon in Alpha Centauri?

[Yitzi]

[blinks]

No, I meant honkin' big artillery guns.

I don't make mistakes.

Ok...in that case I just don't understand your statement.  Are formers and probe teams truly big artillery guns?

[BeyondChiron]

@BUncle ah ok. In that case i agree.

I wonder how the novels are. I havent read them

[Buster's Uncle]

Same here - I have a weak sense of the plot from comments I've seen, and I read the story he wrote that Firaxis put out online to promote the game, and have read excerpts - but not enough to get as really strong sense of whether the books are good, or whether I would agree his take on the milieu and the people.  What I have read was okay.  I would be curious to read the books, if I could lay hands on copies.

[blinks]

No, I meant honkin' big artillery guns.

I don't make mistakes.

Ok...in that case I just don't understand your statement.  Are formers and probe teams truly big artillery guns?

It's probably a good idea, when you find post of mine is confusing, to ask yourself if BU just made another bomb of a joke.

[Yitzi]

It's probably a good idea, when you find post of mine is confusing, to ask yourself if BU just made another bomb of a joke.

Oh, I knew you weren't serious.  I just decided to play along.

[BeyondChiron]

I read the synopsis in Civ wiki. Never knew it had them. I already hate them.

Journey to Centauri is good though. I havent read arrival yet

[Buster's Uncle]

http://alphacentauri2.info/official/Sid%20Meier%27s%20Alpha%20Centauri%20The%20Story_cfm.htm

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Let us note for history's sake, that Yitzi totally faked me out on a joke.

[BeyondChiron]

I didnt mean that kind of "book-back" synopsis, i meant the "the entire book plot resumed" kind.

[Buster's Uncle]

The links on the page to the Journey to Centauri and Centauri: Arrival texts actually work.  You can read Arrival any time you want.

[BeyondChiron]

Ahhh i missunderstood you. Yeah i know, thats where i read JoAC. I just havent had time for Arrival. Thank you anyway though

[Buster's Uncle]

I rescued that page myself, and let me tell you - whomever made the official AC pages for Firaxis did not do a neat job that made it easy for me.

...Actually, I need to finish the Tech pages so we can try to get the whole mirror mentioned in the Wikipedia SMACX article.

Oh eeeete!  I need your help with something!...

(ete edit: hit edit rather than quote, fixed now.)

[BeyondChiron]

Well thank you for that  i asume that the entire thing predates the game release since Zak is called Saratov. You saved a pair of jewels for future fans like us :3

what is missing?

[Buster's Uncle]

Journey, IIRC, was indeed published one chapter at a time online in the months leading up to the original SMAC release.


In the Technology section, there are a million individual pages for each tech, former command, weapon, and so on - Kilkakon, who is much better qualified, volunteered to take over when I'd grinded about a third of my way through reconstructing them ... and has kept having real life happen instead for over two years now.

The biggest sticking point, though, is that the Basic Concepts and Advanced Concepts sections are completely gone from all the internet archives I can find.  -All the other bits, we have the pages, and only have to fix them so the pictures show and stuff like that - a LOT of work, but doable, just a grind.  The Concepts pages have to be re-imagined completely, and I'm willing to grind out a million mini-pages, but don't wanna have make the Concepts pages from nothing.  Fortunately, that's datalinks stuff, and ete did a complete proofing/revision of GooglyBoogly's Datalinks Update - and I hope I can talk him, as the resident expert in what's missing, into helping with this, whether Kilkakon finishes the actual page-making or I do.

Getting any kind of link on Wikipedia would be HUGELY beneficial publicity for this forum/community, and how could they turn down a mirror/reconstruction of the Official Firaxis AC pages?  We need this almost three years ago, but I'll settle for in the next few months.

[BeyondChiron]

So you're trying to recreate the AC original website in the AC wiki? Personally i feel like a more centralized and easier to access with "juicier" articles would be able to become linkable in Wikipedia easier than a big wiki with thousands of "stubs". Adding stuff like the GURPs info and the datalinks info as you previously said. I'd help but im busy with the uni rn 

[Geo]

[blinks]

No, I meant honkin' big artillery guns.

I don't make mistakes.

 
Perish the thought!

[Sigma]

@BUncle ah ok. In that case i agree.

I wonder how the novels are. I havent read them

They are okay. They end up in a very dark place:

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Basically, the novels end with a Conquest Victory for Miriam and Yang's daughter. Their pact ends up acquiring Singularity weapons from the University, and they use it to carve a swath of destruction across planet. Ultimately, the surviving faction leaders retreat into hardened underground bunkers, where they plan to undergo Clinical Immortality treatment in order to give themselves another 200 or so years of life, which they plan to spend within the Virtual World.