; ; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI ; ; FACTION FILE: The Spartan Federation ; ; Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 by Firaxis Games, Inc. ; ; ALPHA CENTAURI reads the rules of the game from this file at ; startup. Feel free, at your own risk, to experiment with editing ; this file. We recommend you make a backup copy of the original. ; #SPARTANS Spartan Federation, The Survivalist, Spartans, M, 2, Santiago, F, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, TECH, Mobile, FREEPROTO, 0, SOCIAL, ++MORALE, SOCIAL, +POLICE, SOCIAL, -INDUSTRY Values, Power, MORALE Values, Wealth, nil Spartan, Spartan, Voki, Bonaventura, Voki's Price Colonel, vigilant, paranoid, cautious, sociopathic, Right-Wing Lunatic exercise our rights to keep and bear arms to exercise freely the God-given right to keep and bear arms equipping a private army to seize control of Planet equipping your private army to seize control of Planet equip a private army and seize control of this world polishing her beloved artillery pieces polishing your beloved artillery pieces having paranoid delusions paranoid delusions, M2 military preparations, M2 right-wing fantasies, M2 stipend, M1 keeping the peace the Spartan Paramilitary Legion the Spartan Military Code #BASES Sparta Command Survival Base Commander's Keep War Outpost Militia Station Fort Legion Janissary Rock Blast Rifle Crag Hawk of Chiron Assassin's Redoubt Centurion Cave Bunker 118 Hommel's Citadel Training Camp Defiance Freehold Hero's Waypoint Fort Liberty Ironholm Fort Survivalist Fort Superiority Halls of Discipline Parade Ground #END #WATERBASES Fleet Anchorage Admiralty Base Hydrodock Fleet Base Sea Outpost #END #BLURB Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate. ^ ^ -- Col. Corazon Santiago, ^ "Spartan Battle Manual" #DATALINKS1 ^LEADER: {Col. Corazon Santiago} ^BACKGROUND: {Survivalist, Unity Security Chief} ^AGENDA: {Right To Keep And Bear Arms} ^TECH: {Doctrine: Mobility} ^ #DATALINKS2 ^+2 MORALE: {Well-armed survivalist movement} ^+1 POLICE: {Highly disciplined followers} ^-1 INDUSTRY: {Extravagant weapons are costly} ^Prototype units do not cost extra minerals. ^{May not use Wealth value in Social Engineering.} #FACTIONTRUCE #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "You cannot hope to stand against me, $NAME1. Pledge Blood Truce now or face total destruction." "Truce it is, then. I thank you." "Bluffing will get you nowhere, $NAME3. Prepare to be obliterated!" #FACTIONTREATY #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "$TITLE0 $NAME1. My survivalist followers are content to guard their homes in armed peace. I suggest we sign a Treaty of Friendship and stay out of each others' way." "Fair enough, but I shall guard my borders carefully." "Hardly. A faction armed to the teeth hardly seems friendly to me." #ALIENFACTIONTRUCE #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "You cannot hope to stand against me, $NAME1. Pledge Blood Truce now or face total destruction." "Destruction: to be avoided. Truce: agreed." "You winning: why do you offer peace? Conclusion: you: losing! Rejection!" #ALIENFACTIONTREATY #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 "$TITLE0 $NAME1, clearly your aims and ours are mutual: survival on this harsh world we've come upon. With you as Treaty partner, I will be less of a target for the others, and therefore my people will not suffer." "Right to defend: important. Treaty: agreeable." "Weaponry: belies soft words. Treaty: not advisable." # ; This line must remain at end of file