WARNING: post may contain secrets of alpha centauri
re thread "The best Leader speech":
"Pretty dreadful, Voice. What is this 'growth dream?' You keep alluding to it."
^ "growth dream soon is. epochal blooming we. mind and flower, dreaming we
of great why. humans, thoughts many, make they growth dream sooner.
plant we many many many. great pruning we of animal we. also animal you.
beginning again of cycle."
^ "You mean this is going to wipe out most animal life on the planet?
Including all the humans?"
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Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem.
Sister Miriam Godwinson
"But for the Grace of God"
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I have learned a secret of alpha centauri. Maybe not a final truth: just a candidate for prominent harmonics between game engine and concept. This may be a spoiler ("Pretty dreadful voice") and so is encoded using rot 13, easily decodable by copy/pasting into a site such as
http://www.rot13.com. There is an important cost/benefit analysis corner ("concern").
Jung ner pbaqvgvbaf sbe znkvzhz raretl cebqhpgvba?
Gur znkvzhz pnc sbe hfrshy raretl cebqhpgvba vf (fnzr ybtvp nf obneq tnzr "tb") vf rabhtu raretl perqvgf gb chepunfr sebz mreb gur zbfg raretljvfr rkcrafvir vgrz cre ghea sbe gur znkvzhz ahzore bs onfrf nyybjnoyr cre znc sbe rabhtu gvzr gb fheivir ntnvafg n znkvzhz ahzore bs bcgvzhz nggnpxref nf cbffvoyr cre ghea, be fgnonyvmr pbaqvgvbaf sbe tenifuvc/frn pbybalcbq/fhcresbezre nf arrqrq gb bpphcl nyy fcnpr gb pbagvahr znkvznyyl rkcrafvir cebqhpgvba sbyybjvat snfgrfg pvgr cebqhpgvba.
Raretl cebqhpgvba jbhyq or yvzvgrq ol greenva, beovgnyf, fhccyl pbaiblf.
Ubjrire, vg vf cbffvoyr gb vapernfr rpbabzl naq erfrnepu jvgu fcrpvnyvfgf.
Vg vf cbffvoyr gb rkprrq cbchyngvba jvgu fhccyl cbqf.
Gur tnzr yrgf lbh fgbpxcvyr znlor vasvavgryl znal pbybal cbqf cre ghea.
Gurer vf n dhrfgvba vs fgbpxcvyvat pbybal cbqf sbe znffvir fcrpvnyvfg obbfgf trarengrf zber guna gjvpr nf zhpu vapbzr obahf guna fgbpxcvyvat raretl.
Vs fb, vg vf bs zber inyhr gb gur rzcver gb ubneqr pbybal cbqf, gura nqq gurve cbchyngvba gb onfr ng fbzr zbzrag.
Bs pbhefr, gur onfr va rkprrqvat ahgevrag yvzvgf jvyy ortva fhssrevat cbchyngvba ybffrf cre ghea. (guvf qvfphffvba vf bofbyrgr vs cebqhpgvba vf naahyyrq sbe gheaf bs cbchyngvba ybff gb fgneingvba)
N znexrqyl fvzvyne tebjgu cnggrea vf qrfpevorq vafvqr gur tnzr'f fgbel vagreyhqrf ertneqvat zvaqjbezf:
"Nccneragyl gur shathf unf orra gur qbzvanag yvsrsbez ba gur cynarg fvapr nobhg
gur gvzr bs gur Ybjre Cnyrbmbvp ba Rnegu. Ohg vg unf orra ybpxrq va n gentvp plpyr.
Rirel uhaqerq zvyyvba lrnef be fb vg npuvrirf gur pevgvpny znff arprffnel gb orpbzr
fragvrag, ohg gur svany zrgnzbecubfvf xvyyf bss zbfg bs gur bgure yvsr ba gur cynarg.
Ynpxvat sbbq fbheprf naq gur znvagranapr vgf navzny flzovbgrf cebivqrq, gur shathf
pbhyq znvagnva bayl n oevrs frnfba bs tbqubbq orsber qlvat onpx vagb gur
'sybjre qernz' sbe nabgure uhaqerq zvyyvba lrnef. Vg nyjnlf npuvrirq vgf tbqyvxr
vagryyvtrapr whfg rknpgyl gbb yngr gb qb nalguvat gb cerirag gur qvronpx. Nsgre
gur qvronpx bayl inthr zrzbevrf naq ehqvzragnel vagryyvtrapr erznvarq, naq gur
plpyr pbagvahrq."
SMAC story quotes sourced from:
http://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx?isGallery=true&shareID=1669470&fileID=42825305
boivrhk?
(add: Gur qrfpevorq fpranevb cebivqrf zngrevny vapragvir gb "pbzzvg ngebpvgl". Gur rzcver'f tebjgu jvgu "vasvavgr ngebpvgl gung pbzcnengviryl engrf nf vasvavgrfvzny dhnagvgl bs gvzr bhg bs ngebpvgl" va gung fpranevb (ol bar cbffvoyr neevirq ng pnyphyngvba) vf terngre guna gur aba-ngebpvgl rzcver.
Na nygreangr cbffvoyr cebwrpgvba unf yrffne zngrevny orarsvg jvgu cbchyngvba fybhtuvat sebz znff pbybal cbq gb rpba fcrpvnyvfg "tebjgu oybbzf".)