God Tier:

(Deidre)

  • Hot af environmentalist into making a beautiful solarpunk utopia on planet.

  • All the messed up shit she does is absolutely justified

  • Becomes a human God

  • Lovely architecture that reflects the best of mankind

  • Pet mindworms

  • Really easy to get laid in Gaian bases according to Lal's memoirs

Good Tier:

(Lal)

  • Bit of a Liberal but ultimately has the best interests of humanity in mind

  • His issue is he is too attached to the old world

  • Pussy

  • Loves his wife, good family man!

  • END OF HISTORY GUYS PICK HIM

(Zakharov)

  • Bit of an authoritarian but uses his scientific knowledge to merge us into Planet

  • Creates horrific resentment among the proletariat that leads to constant cool sci fi riots he quells with forced lobotomies

  • Only Faction that definitely has internet

  • Also had really cool glasses

Solaris Tier:

{Planetmind}

  • Weird poetry lover

  • I imagine it'd be fun to talk to if a bit trippy.

  • Reminds me of the shroom hallucination version of Pan that I run into every time I go tripping

Meme tier:

(Morgan)

  • Black Trump but without the racism.

  • Would probably be fun to hang out with ngl

  • Parasitic capitalist fuck

  • Has a South Parkesque TV show as his propaganda show

  • Has the funnest bases because you can buy super weed and hookers in the same place legally

(Santiago)

  • Yeah we get it you liked Starship Troopers

  • You know that was a comedy right?

  • Gets killed by based Gaians

Shit Tier:

(Yang)

  • End of humanity

  • Death of the things that make us great

  • Ugly fucking bases on top of that (Le bunkers!!111)

  • Doesn't even end up getting exterminated, just kinda drop out of the plot

  • Creates the Genejack like some kind of fucked up Dr Moreau guy

(Miriam)

  • Also the end of humanity

  • Christian Iran

  • Ends up killing her entire faction in some horrible Jonestownesque mass suicide

  • Ugliest leader

  • Cathedrals are pretty cool ngl

        • chromechamp69 [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          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

        • chromechamp69 [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          yeah usually someone either transcends or gets voted world leader around turn 400

          https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/

          you should read this, it’s a really cool deep dive into all the worldbuilding quotes that brian reynolds himself said was great