Where I flip through my image archive and ruminate on what pops up.
This time we land on Lady Deirdre Skye, leader of Gaia's Stepdaughters. She is one of the faction leaders of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the stunning turn-based strategy game that also served as the first product from Firaxis, the development house that was formed by game legend Sid Meier, along with Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs. Meier and company had created gaming history (literally and figuratively) with the towering Civilization TBS games for Microprose; when that company changed management, Meier and his crew vacated to greener pastures.
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| The Lovely Lady Skye |
One of the victory conditions of Civ was the colonization of Alpha Centauri by the players' civilization, so it was a natural fit that Firaxis follow up on how mankind was fairing in its new home. It's been awhile since I've played SMAC, so I can't talk much about the game, beside the fact that it had a truly massive tech tree. Also, that it was a tonne of fun to play. I don't think I ever played as Lady Skye, but Gaia's Stepdaughters were tree-hugging environmentalists whose weapons usually consisted of marshalling the semi-sentient planet's wildlife against the enemy.
In the tradition of the excellent research Firaxis puts into its games, Gaia was the ancient Greek personification of Mother Nature.
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