Favorite in-game quotes and/or movies.

[uss1701jb]

         

Get of land you Peacekeeping son-of a...


I never really GOT the assassins redoubt one. What's it supposed to mean?

[Dio]

You all make me feel old   

Now, don't be sad. I'd like to think there's still something to look forward to when I hit my fifties. 

Ha..ha... yeah.. 50's...

What if I told you I was older... 

I would have never guessed .

[Sigma]

        

Get of land you Peacekeeping son-of a...


I never really GOT the assassins redoubt one. What's it supposed to mean?

That's the one that comes with the Dream Twister, right? I'm pretty sure it's mean to be creepy, as a way of showing that the personnel at Assassin's Redoubt went crazy.

[Vishniac]

That's the one that comes with the Dream Twister, right? I'm pretty sure it's mean to be creepy, as a way of showing that the personnel at Assassin's Redoubt went crazy.

I think it's a small children song. Some anglo-saxon here would confirm?

[uss1701jb]

Yes it is, but I was wondering the meaning. I knew this was from "Mary Had a Little Lamb" but I was wondering WHY they dais that.

[Sigma]

When confronted with abject, mind scrambling terror, even the highly disciplined Spartan minds degenerate into a childlike stupor.

[JarlWolf]

And maybe it's a metaphor. Mary had a little lamb, who's fleece was as white as snow.

Let's paraphrase that.

I had a man in my arms who's skin was ghastly pale and in shock. (the person themself is also terrified.)

[Dio]

I think the movie is purposely abstract because each person could interpret it slightly different while still getting the main concept of terror.

[gwillybj]

The Cloudbase Academy video is my favorite.
The Self-Aware Colony is right up there.

[uss1701jb]

Don't feel bad, I started playing SMAC when I was 11. So you are not the only one who felt that way.

I was 3-5... I can't remember ten years back, but I'm pretty sure the cloning vats were my favorite because CHICKENS!!!

[Buster's Uncle]

That's the one that comes with the Dream Twister, right? I'm pretty sure it's mean to be creepy, as a way of showing that the personnel at Assassin's Redoubt went crazy.

I think it's a small children song. Some anglo-saxon here would confirm?

Confirmed.

[Geo]

I live, I work, I die.
The dark of space my only sky,...

IIRC, the ballad of Sky Farm 3.

[Yitzi]

1. "The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress.  Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil."

(Shows that she's not really as anti-science as you'd think.  Cautious and suspicious, but not really anti-science.)

2. "The fungus has been Planet's dominant lifeform since about the time of the Lower Paleozoic on Earth. But when, once every hundred million years or so, the neural net at last achieves the critical mass necessary to become sentient, the final metamorphosis kills off most of the other life on the planet. It is possible that we humans can help to break this tragic cycle."

And of course:

3. "No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning."

[Dio]

1. "The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress.  Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil."

(Shows that she's not really as anti-science as you'd think.  Cautious and suspicious, but not really anti-science.)

Good way of putting it Yitzi. I always felt that  was not as fanatical as the game made her out to be.

[JarlWolf]

I think Miriam wasn't even very religious at the start: She just used religion to unite her followers. I see her as a less despotic and less cruel Yang in that regard, she has compassion and values liberty and freedoms but she is essentially a dictator that wants total control of her followers in order to survive. But later on she grows more and more fanatical I find, get higher in the tech quotes and she gets more fanatical, and more religious. And this makes a bit of sense I think, the ploy she plays out becomes her actual perception over time and the problems it brings.