God Tier:
(Deidre)
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Hot af environmentalist into making a beautiful solarpunk utopia on planet.
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All the messed up shit she does is absolutely justified
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Becomes a human God
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Lovely architecture that reflects the best of mankind
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Pet mindworms
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Really easy to get laid in Gaian bases according to Lal's memoirs
Good Tier:
(Lal)
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Bit of a Liberal but ultimately has the best interests of humanity in mind
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His issue is he is too attached to the old world
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Pussy
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Loves his wife, good family man!
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END OF HISTORY GUYS PICK HIM
(Zakharov)
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Bit of an authoritarian but uses his scientific knowledge to merge us into Planet
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Creates horrific resentment among the proletariat that leads to constant cool sci fi riots he quells with forced lobotomies
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Only Faction that definitely has internet
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Also had really cool glasses
Solaris Tier:
{Planetmind}
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Weird poetry lover
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I imagine it'd be fun to talk to if a bit trippy.
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Reminds me of the shroom hallucination version of Pan that I run into every time I go tripping
Meme tier:
(Morgan)
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Black Trump but without the racism.
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Would probably be fun to hang out with ngl
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Parasitic capitalist fuck
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Has a South Parkesque TV show as his propaganda show
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Has the funnest bases because you can buy super weed and hookers in the same place legally
(Santiago)
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Yeah we get it you liked Starship Troopers
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You know that was a comedy right?
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Gets killed by based Gaians
Shit Tier:
(Yang)
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End of humanity
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Death of the things that make us great
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Ugly fucking bases on top of that (Le bunkers!!111)
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Doesn't even end up getting exterminated, just kinda drop out of the plot
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Creates the Genejack like some kind of fucked up Dr Moreau guy
(Miriam)
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Also the end of humanity
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Christian Iran
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Ends up killing her entire faction in some horrible Jonestownesque mass suicide
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Ugliest leader
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Cathedrals are pretty cool ngl
no, I meant like....how Civ is the stone age to like....the 21st century...
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sounds more fun then civ because it’s less abstract
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on the other hand- it’s the best video game take on like a mindbending 60’s sci fi novel so there’s a lot to live in writing
there’s a definite timeline, its 500 turns and every turn is a year
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yeah usually someone either transcends or gets voted world leader around turn 400
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you should read this, it’s a really cool deep dive into all the worldbuilding quotes that brian reynolds himself said was great