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; Sid Meier’s ALPHA CENTAURI
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; FACTION FILE: The Cybernetic Consciousness
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; Copyright © 1999 by Firaxis Games, Inc.
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; ALPHA CENTAURI reads the rules of the game from this file at
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; startup. Feel free, at your own risk, to experiment with editing
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; this file. We recommend you make a backup copy of the original.
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;
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#CYBORG
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The Cybernetic Consciousness, The Algorithm, Consciousness, F, 1, Aki Zeta-5, F, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1,
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TECH, Physic, TECH, InfNet, IMPUNITY, Cybernetic, SOCIAL, ++RESEARCH, SOCIAL, ++EFFIC, SOCIAL, -GROWTH, TECHSTEAL, 0
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Future Society, Cybernetic, GROWTH
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Politics, Fundamentalist, nil
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Cybernetic, Cybern.
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Alpha Talent, Gamma Thinker, Alpha Legacy
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Prime Function, analytical, soulless, rational, inflexible,
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Unsexed Android
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impose rational thinking on this Planet
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to impose rationality and order on the inhabitants of this chaotic Planet
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destroying all that makes us self-aware
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destroying all that makes us self-aware
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try to reduce us all to a collection of algorithms
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grafting silicon onto her few remaining biological components
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grafting silicon onto your few remaining biological components
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destroying the sentience of unwilling subjects
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so-called logic, M1
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quest for rational perfection, M1
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quest for rational perfection, M1
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licensing fee, M1
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developing rational codes for your people to follow
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my Logic Corps
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the Dictates of Logic
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#BASES
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Alpha Prime
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Beta Crossing
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Gamma Flats
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Delta Marsh
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Epsilon Center
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Eta Crossroads
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Theta Banks
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Iota Station
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Kappa Hills
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Lambda Farms
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Mu Crescent
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Nu Square
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Xi Ellipse
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Omicron Quadrangle
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Pi Complex
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Rho Yards
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Sigma Complex
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Tau Collective
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Upsilon Depot
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Psi Consensus
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Chi Plains
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Phi Lumiere
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Omega Terminus
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Computational Science
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Data Processing
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Automated Reasoning
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Successive States
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Recursive Function
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Quadratic Equation
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Systematic Solution
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Linear Equations
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Decision Problem
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Recursive Functions
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Turing Machines
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Formulation 1
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Assignment Operation
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Data Structures
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Flow of Control
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Imperative Programming
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Natural Languages
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Pseudocode
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Flowchart
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Control Tables
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State Diagram
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Machine Code
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Assembly Code
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High-level Implementation
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Halting Problem
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Minsky’s Machine
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Church-Turing Thesis
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Spaghetti Code
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Böhm-Jacopini Canonical Structures
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If-Then Goto
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Proofs of Correctness
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Mathematical Induction
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Pidgin Code
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Elementary Number Theory
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Partial Function
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Total Function
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Algorithm Analysis
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Big O Notation
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Binary Search
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Brute Force
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Table Lookups
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Empirical Algorithmics
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#END
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#WATERBASES
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Alpha Basin
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Gamma Breakwater
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Beta Mudflats
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Delta Trench
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Epsilon Reef
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Eta Ridge
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Theta Barrier
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Iota Point
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#END
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#BLURB
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Those who join us need give up only half of their humanity—the illogical,
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ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as ‘right-brain’
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functioning. In exchange, the ‘left-brain’ capacities are increased to undreamed
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potential. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual
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personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
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^
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^ —Prime Function Aki Zeta-5,
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^ “Convergence”
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#DATALINKS1
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^LEADER: {Aki Zeta-5 (Prime Function Shell)}
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^BACKGROUND: {Subroutine Specialist under Unity Science Officer}
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^AGENDA: {Rational Objectivity}
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^TECH: {Information Networks, Applied Physics}
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^
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#DATALINKS2
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^+2 RESEARCH: {Human research abilities enhanced by algorithmic control}
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^+2 EFFICIENCY: {Cybernetic biologicals extremely efficient}
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^-1 GROWTH: {Humans ‘possessed by an algorithm’ find reproduction awkward}
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^Impunity to {Cybernetic} penalty: {Cybernetic social choice is ‘rational’ and not dissented by citizens}
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^Can steal technology when capturing a base
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^{May not make Fundamentalist choice in social engineering}
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#FACTIONTRUCE
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#xs 440
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#caption $CAPTION7
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“Our strategic simulations predict an inevitable stalemate for this
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conflict, $NAME1. We therefore attach a high value to Blood Truce at this time.”
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“I need no simulation to tell me that, $NAME3. Blood Truce is the best choice.”
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“That’s funny … our simulations predict your inevitable defeat. We see no value in a Blood Truce.”
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#FACTIONTREATY
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#xs 440
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#caption $CAPTION7
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“You have recently demonstrated enhanced left-brain activity, $TITLE0 $NAME1.
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A Treaty of Friendship would exponentially increase our mutual capabilities.”
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“Your conclusions are irrefutable. A Treaty is the only rational path for our people, $NAME3.”
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“I prefer my right-brain impulses on this one, $NAME3. You can use what’s left of yours.”
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#ALIENFACTIONTRUCE
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#xs 440
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#caption $CAPTION7
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“Our strategic simulations predict an inevitable stalemate for this
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conflict, $NAME1. We therefore attach a high value to Blood Truce at this time.”
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“Wisdom: avoid stalemate. Progenitor: better things to do. Agreement.”
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“Your simulations: faulty. Your defeat: inevitable. Answer: negative.”
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#ALIENFACTIONTREATY
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#xs 440
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#caption $CAPTION7
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“$TITLE0 $NAME1, your devotion to research and your vast intellect make you
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a suitable partner. A Treaty of Friendship would exponentially increase
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our mutual capabilities.”
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“Geometric power: preferable: arithmetic power. Treaty: excellent idea.”
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“Logic flaw: Progenitor: no benefit: your commerce. Answer: negative.”
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