Was SMAC prohpetic? Is Earth going down the drain?

[Unimatrix11]

Oh really ? Common - everybody knows capitalism is all about ´up and down´ ´again and again´...

[chequita guevara]

The environment under which civilization arose won't survive the profit motive. Whether or not civilization can survive is another question, but I'm not optimistic on the issue. Even if it does, it will result in massive death and disruption and population movement.

[Heraclitus]

I realized actually that SMAC and Fallout are not mutually exclusive.

Actually they are. There is mention of nuclear warfare on 21st century Earth in SMAC's continuity but the details just don't match up.


Example: Miriam is said to be from "The Christian states of America".

[Sprayber]

I suppose I'd better get in better shape if I'm gonna be a Spartan.

[Alinestra Covelia]

everybody knows capitalism is all about ´up and down´ ´again and again´...

You make capitalism sound sexy. I think it's your unique talent.

[BeBMan]

[Alinestra Covelia]

Actually they are. There is mention of nuclear warfare on 21st century Earth in SMAC's continuity but the details just don't match up.


Example: Miriam is said to be from "The Christian states of America".

Yeah, all the indications strongly suggest that the exact details of America (especially) may contradict between the two.

But did you ever notice how the Fallout US Flag only has something like 13 stars, arranged in a circle. Obviously, Occam's razor wouldn't apply, but I think there might just be enough wiggle room to say something like the "Christian States" seceded from the union and Miriam came from there. The remaining union had 13 states and was still a fairly coherent nation up till the last war.

Something like that. It's not very graceful and it's the sort of post-hoc rationalization that spawns lots of frothing fan arguments on GameFAQs, but it's the best I can do.

[Unimatrix11]

You make capitalism sound sexy. I think it's your unique talent.

Yeah, it´s probably fun, if you want to be part of the action - but if you dont, yet are forced to: Not so much, eh?

[Heraclitus]

Yeah, all the indications strongly suggest that the exact details of America (especially) may contradict between the two.

But did you ever notice how the Fallout US Flag only has something like 13 stars, arranged in a circle. Obviously, Occam's razor wouldn't apply, but I think there might just be enough wiggle room to say something like the "Christian States" seceded from the union and Miriam came from there. The remaining union had 13 states and was still a fairly coherent nation up till the last war.

Something like that. It's not very graceful and it's the sort of post-hoc rationalization that spawns lots of frothing fan arguments on GameFAQs, but it's the best I can do.

The 13 stars represent the 13 commonwealths of the USA. A commonwealth is an intermediate level of integration between state and federal government that exists in the fallout universe.