It's so sad, but I love Morgan

[Alynzia]

In realising I'm setting myself up to be mocked and ridiculed , I am going to show you me in my homemade Morgan T shirt.

Alpha Centauri Forever! (Or at least until we get CivIII)

Alynzia.

[MariOne]

LOL, why ridiculed?

I wonder...
was this due to his factional characteristic?
Or do you love his handsome mature aspect?
Do you weari it only when playing?
Do you wear it when playing... another faction???
Do you wear it when playing another faction... and attacking Morgan???

Or do you also get around in public with it on?
In case, which reactions do you get by the public?

BTW nice pic, and cute idea!

[Bella Hella]

that's so cute!!!!!!!!!!

the best part is that probably no one has any idea what it is or what it means other than someone who plays SMAC. has anyone come up to you and said "OMG, it's morgan from alpha centauri"??

i love it! i wish i had an aki zeta-5 shirt!

[RedFred]

Nice idea. Should I post a picture of my Gaian rose tatoo?

Just kidding. I don't have one. But I was thinking about getting one.

[Caedfel]

I like the longetivity vaccine movie with morgan in it.. really funny.. man, wow, funny. I laugh every time I see it.

[Lucy In The Sky]

Alynzia, You're not just another pretty face. You're smart, too. Morgan all the way. doreme rules.

[Alynzia]

Where's my mocking?

Hey guys, thanks for the replies - and the lack of ridiculing!

As for the T shirt, it cost £3 to make. £1 for the special iron on paper and £2 for a plain T shirt. I'm not suggesting people make them though, I like to think my CEO Morgan T shirt is one of a kind!

I do also have an Aki Zeta one and a Prokhor Zakharov one. There is a funny WTC story about the latter one, believe it or not, which I'll post later.

Alynzia.

[Alynzia]

As I Promised.

I told Vel my story, but I'm being brave enough to put it on the forum.

I spent the month of October in Manhattan, visiting family and stuff. I decided to pack my Zakharov T shirt because it's so damn cool (although Zak is nothing compared to Capitalist God Morgan.) It was a really summer like October in New York, for the most part, and one day was hot enough for me to go around just in a T shirt...

So I am walking down Lexington Ave, as you do, in my Zakharov T shirt and this Hispanic guy looks at me. 'Ooh,' I think, 'I've got an admirer!'. But he stops and says to me in his thick accent, "Oh, I'm so sorry - you lose your father in World Trade Center?"

Agh! I guess some people went around wearing dead relatives on T shirts after the disaster, but it was only Zakharov! Sufficient to say I didn't wear it for the rest of my holiday. (My cousin was like 'who's the fruit on your T shirt?')

In answer to my lovely replies...

I like Morgan and the Morganites, but I think I like my Morgan T shirt because he's sooo handsome!

I wear my T shirt to college, out in the city and around the house. It does get a few looks from passers by, but no one ever said they recognized him. At college, my friend asked if Morgan was Nelson Mandela! I did try and convince her Morgan was a real person for a while.

What I really wanted was a T shirt saying "I'm Okay, You're A Drone" - that would have been so cool. As would temporary SMAC faction symbol tattoos.

And something else at college was when I was wearing my Aki Zeta T shirt I was walking behind two guys who were discussing their love for Civ and SMAC, saying those were the greatest games ever. I was going to run up and show 'em my shirt, but when I got closer to them, one of them smelt so I kept quiet. I'm serious!

Alynzia
Who absolutely promises to start a serious thread next time she posts!

[Gregurabi]

I was going to run up and show 'em my shirt, but when I got closer to them, one of them smelt so I kept quiet.

The moral of this story should be quite obvious.

[Hydro]

Alynzia,

If you were looking for mocking you came to the wrong forum. Most or all of us can fully understand your interest and devotion, and this is a pretty friendly forum anyway (which is why I'm still here). Maybe I'll get inspired and get one for my favorite faction: the Gaians. Getting Dee's rose logo or image would be great. How did you get the image, though? Do vendors do them? Or specialty t-shirt shops?

Cadfael - are you a fan of Ellis Peters' books? I've always loved her mysteries revolving around the 12th Century Benedictine monk Cadfael!

Hydro

[civcop]

Morgan, the comedian!

Originally posted by Caedfel
I like the longetivity vaccine movie with morgan in it.. really funny.. man, wow, funny. I laugh every time I see it.

That one cracks me up too. Morgan and Lal in a South Park-esque scene, Morgan doing jumping jacks...it's a riot. There is another movie (went blank and forget the project) that shows Morgan doing a back flip or cartwheel--something like that. All this makes me believe that Morgan is the most personable of the faction leaders (and yes, I realize they are ficticious). If SMAC 2 is made, it should allow the Morganites to build comedy clubs at each base and give the faction a morale boost in the process.

[MariOne]

hehe, I remember back at the owo days, jokes about "Lotus Morganizer", and about "Billy Morgan & the SMACing Pumpkins"...

[RedFred]

Hydro, do you know where you can get a decent image of the Gaian faction symbol? The one on the tech chart isn't the best quality for a scan.

[mark13]

Alynzia - post it in the OT. Then you'll get ridiculed

Great pic BTW

[Googlie]

RF (and Hydro):

Open the gaians.pcx file from your firaxis games/smac directory - pics and logos are there.

Also, you can get them at:

http://www.firaxis.com/smac/deirdre.cfm

G.