Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack - GOG 2.0.2.23

This torrent has been re-uploaded as the Readme and Quick Reference Card errored out in the first torrent and caused the torrent to not complete. The entire game files were able to be downloaded in the first torrent apart from the two files that errored.



This is the GOG 2.0.2.23 release of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack (which includes the often overlooked Alien Crossfire expansion pack). Alpha Centauri (SMAC) was released on PC on February 12th, 1999 and Alien Crossfire (SMACX) was released later that same year on October 20th. SMAC is the continuation of-sorts to the Civilization Series. The patch file included in this torrent is to bring any prior version of the Planetary Pack from GOG to this version which is the latest available version from the GOG website.

Space-race victories in the Civilization series conclude with a journey to Alpha Centauri. Beginning with that premise the Alpha Centauri narrative starts in the 22nd century, after the United Nations sends "Unity", a colonization mission, to Alpha Centauri's planet Chiron ("Planet"). Unbeknownst to humans, advanced extraterrestrials ("Progenitors") had been conducting experiments in vast distributed nervous systems, culminating in planetary biosphere-sized presentient nervous system ("Manifold") on Chiron, leaving behind monoliths and artifacts on Planet to guide and examine the system's growth. Immediately prior to the start of the game, a reactor malfunction on the Unity spacecraft wakes the crew and colonists early and irreparably severs communications with Earth. After the captain is assassinated, the most powerful leaders on board build ideological factions with dedicated followers, conflicting agendas for the future of mankind, and "desperately serious" commitments. As the ship breaks up, seven escape pods, each containing a faction, are scattered across Planet.

In the Alien Crossfire expansion pack, it is learned that earlier alien experiments had led to disastrous consequences at Tau Ceti, creating a hundred-million-year evolutionary cycle that ended with the eradication of most complex animal life in several neighboring inhabited star systems. After the disaster (referred to by Progenitors as "Tau Ceti Flowering"), the Progenitors split into two factions: Manifold Caretakers, opposed to further experimentation and dedicated to preventing another Flowering; and Manifold Usurpers, favoring further experimentation and intending to induce a controlled Flowering in Alpha Centauri's Planet. In Alien Crossfire, these factions compete along with the human factions for control over the destiny of Planet.