The Savant Caliphate/savant.txt
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; Sid Meier’s ALPHA CENTAURI
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; FACTION FILE: Savant Caliphate
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; Credit: ete, Sigma, and BU (art)
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#SAVANT
The Savant Caliphate, The Scholars, Savants, M, 2, Saeed, M, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
TECH, 1, TECH, DocFlex, SOCIAL, ++RESEARCH, SOCIAL, +PROBE, SOCIAL, -INDUSTRY, HURRY, 110, IMPUNITY, KNOWLEDGE, FREEABIL, 28, AQUATIC, 0,
Values, Knowledge, PROBE
Politics, Fundamentalist, nil
Savant, Savant
Zula, Mahmoud, Zula's Academy
Archcurator, wise, sinister, intellectual, misanthropic,
Knowledge Baron
shepherd mankind into a new Golden Age of science and learning
pursue scientific advancement and protect it from those who would misuse it
hoarding every significant scientific achievement on Planet, leaving the rest of us in the dark ages
hoarding every significant scientific achievement on Planet, leaving the rest of us in the dark ages
steal from and assasinate every threat to your scientific supremacy
finding new ways to steal from the hard earned academic achievements of other factions
finding new ways to steal from the hard earned academic achievements of other factions
advocating scientific elitism
scientific elitism, M1
academic pursuits, M1
scientific espionage, M1
funding grant, M1
furthering and safeguarding the cause of scientific advancement on Planet
the Caliphate's hidden agents
the Code of Academic Succession
#BASES
Library of Planet
#END
#WATERBASES
Citadel of the Mind
House of Wisdom
Waters of Knowledge
Baghdad of the Sea
Reefstrider Academy
#END
#BLURB
Men have longed followed the idiom that knowledge is power. This cannot be denied.
But these same men do not follow this idiom to its final conclusion: that knowledge,
like power, will cast men undeserving of its burden into corruption, and in this
manner fell our first home. The lesson painfully learned is this: the power of the
mind to change the world must be guarded as jealously as the power to split atoms, for
from the first arises the second.
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^ —Archcurator Saeed Alizadeh,
^ “Planet Theory”
#DATALINKS1
^LEADER: {Archcurator Saeed Alizadeh}
^BACKGROUND: {Iranian Islamic Republic, Unity Archival Scientist}
^AGENDA: {Golden Age of Knowledge}
^TECH: {Doctrine: Flexibility, Choose 1}
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#DATALINKS2
^+2 RESEARCH: {Hierarchy of scholars and academics}
^+1 PROBE: {Protected networks and trained infiltrators}
^-1 INDUSTRY: {Labor neglected in favor of research}
^+10% Hurry Cost {Understaffed factories}
^Does not experience negative effects of Knowledge Values
^All units gain Algorithmic Enhancement upon discovery of Nanominiaturazation
^{May not use Fundamentalist Politics}
#FACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
“Our strategic simulations predict an inevitable stalemate for this
conflict, $NAME1. We therefore attach a high value to Blood Truce at this time.”
“I need no simulation to tell me that, $NAME3. Blood Truce is the best choice.”
“That’s funny … our simulations predict your inevitable defeat. We see no value in a Blood Truce.”
#FACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
“You have recently demonstrated enhanced left-brain activity, $TITLE0 $NAME1.
A Treaty of Friendship would exponentially increase our mutual capabilities.”
“Your conclusions are irrefutable. A Treaty is the only rational path for our people, $NAME3.”
“I prefer my right-brain impulses on this one, $NAME3. You can use what’s left of yours.”
#ALIENFACTIONTRUCE
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
“Our strategic simulations predict an inevitable stalemate for this
conflict, $NAME1. We therefore attach a high value to Blood Truce at this time.”
“Wisdom: avoid stalemate. Progenitor: better things to do. Agreement.”
“Your simulations: faulty. Your defeat: inevitable. Answer: negative.”
#ALIENFACTIONTREATY
#xs 440
#caption $CAPTION7
“$TITLE0 $NAME1, your devotion to research and your vast intellect make you
a suitable partner. A Treaty of Friendship would exponentially increase
our mutual capabilities.”
“Geometric power: preferable: arithmetic power. Treaty: excellent idea.”
“Logic flaw: Progenitor: no benefit: your commerce. Answer: negative.”
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