There was some brief HN discussion around SMAC's 20th anniversary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879088

There was some brief HN discussion around SMAC's 20th anniversary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879088 There I wrote: "It's interesting to examine Alpha Centauri's political perspectives in light of the fact that it was released in 1999. The triumph of 'the old world's liberal order' seemed so permanent that public intellectuals were writing paeans to 'the end of history,' yet here was a game premised on the ultimate breakdown and fragmentation of that order."