Who wrote this?

[Illuminatus]

[q=wikipedia]The hidden eighth faction, the Firaxians can be accessed by opening the Faction Editor, going to "Load Faction", and either typing in "sid" (to set Sid Meier as faction leader) or "brian" (to set Brian Reynolds as faction leader) as the faction to load. Once loaded and saved, the Firaxians can be added to a game. The Firaxians do not start the game with any positive or negative societal traits, but receive one free technology - Singularity Mechanics, allowing them to build units with singularity engines from the start of the game. While the singularity engine is a very powerful upgrade over other reactors, the singularity engines are too expensive to build into units at the start of the game. For this reason, this advantage does not come into play until the later stages of the game, when the industrial capabilities of the factions are sufficient for the creation of units with singularity engines. For this reason, in addition to the fact that the Firaxians have no societal traits, they are not normally suitable for human play.[/q]

Who wrote this?

[GeoModder]

Would you construct a singularity scout patrol in the first turns of the game?

[Mart]

Sin scout, 1-1-1*4 costs only 6 rows.

[Leon Trotsky]

So I guess you fixed that, didn't you?

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alien_Crossfire

The hidden eighth faction, the Firaxians can be accessed by opening the Faction Editor, going to "Load Faction", and either typing in "sid" (to set Sid Meier as faction leader) or "brian" (to set Brian Reynolds as faction leader) as the faction to load. Once loaded and saved, the Firaxians can be added to a game. The Firaxians do not start the game with any positive or negative societal traits, but receive one free technology - Singularity Mechanics, allowing them to build units with singularity engines from the start of the game. Singularity engines are a powerful advantage as they lower the cost of units, making them very cheap, and increase unit hitpoints considerably, making them tough to destroy. Because of this faction is very suitable for begginers. It should be noted that other factions can steal the technology from the Firaxians by using Probe Teams.

All Hail the Wikipedia.

[Maniac]

That new wiki is as silly as the old one IMHO. The Sid and Brian factions were just included as a joke, so seriously discussing if they would or wouldn't be suitable for play is kinda besides the point.