Celebrity: Maniac

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Well, the bar I was in when he showed up served him- you remember the nuked-out city in the Planet of the Apes movies? That was a rough night.

Also, he skeeved away my date and stole my beer before he kicked my butt. But it gets better- he came back later, did it again, and made me drive her home after he was done with her.

And he didn't say please or thank you. He's evil.

[Maniac]

Maniac walked into a bar in an alien city, but they refused to serve him.

And that's where The Ruins come from.

Man, I feel so tempted to make this my sig.

[Illuminatus]

Man, I feel so tempted to make this my sig.

So am I (to make it your sig)

Maniac
Ali

[Alinestra Covelia]

Maniac never loses a movement turn due to fungus. The fungus parts gently ahead of him, because they know a fight they'll lose when they see one.

[Illuminatus]

Maniac = SMACk Norris?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Maniac once bit off Mike Tyson's ear- he made Tyson say please and thank you, too.

Also, he got Robin Givens pregnant- just by looking at her.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Say, we ought to take our time to let a real mountain of bull compile, but provided a consensus could be reached about which are the funniest lies, I could work up a fake tabloid cover...

[Senethro]

So whats new in SMAC-Land?

[Alinestra Covelia]

The SMAC wiki incorrectly states that the "Asteroid Strike" random event will never target your capital city. This is wrong. If you're playing against Maniac, he has probably captured all your other bases, and the asteroid strike will take out your remaining city rather than risk pissing Maniac off.

[Senethro]

We have a wiki now?

When they built the Universal Translator it was to decipher the dark meanings behind Maniac talking in his sleep.
When the Gaians recovered the device from the smoking ruins of a Spartan base, they renamed it the Dream Twister.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Legend has it that Maniac is the original Space Elevator but Deirdre refused to share him.

[Senethro]

When Morgan Pharmaceuticals released the Longevity Vaccine with Maniac as the face of the ad campaign, life expectancy soared to over 500 years. In fact, the drug was an incorrectly marketed "marital aid for the speedy gentleman". That it works is a sign that hearts are too afraid to have a cardiac arrest in case Maniac comes looking for them.

[Alinestra Covelia]

When all the escape pods were scrambling away from the Unity, Maniac was in the eighth one that explodes during the start up cutscene. He felt that using an actual escape pod to make Planetfall "dampened the challenge" too much.

[Senethro]

There was a young cyborg named Ace,
Who wooed women at every base,
But when Maniac glanced at,
His special enhancement,
It vanished - with nary a trace

[Alinestra Covelia]