Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Links and Archives

Essentials

• Alpha Centauri 2
  • Official Firaxis website mirror
    • Faction Leader bios
    • Native Life and concept creatures
  • Custom Factions - How-to Guides, Modding Goody Files, Samples Galore
  • Beginners' Getting-Started Strategy Guide
  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire resources - Downloads
  • AC2 forums
• Reddit subreddit
• Discord main server
• Alpha Centauri Wiki - Miraheze
• CivFanatics subforum
• Realms Beyond's Civilization General Discussion subforum
• Apolyton subforum
• aliencrossfire.civ3.de - German SMAC site
• Timigi.com SMAC site - Intro movies, Differences Between SMAC and SMAX, The Planetary Datalinks, and History of SMAC

Behind the Scenes

• SMAC Concept Art of Michael Haire former Firaxis artist
• The Map of Planet - notes by Chris Pine, Firaxis Designer & Creator of the Map of Planet

Blogs

• Light For Chiron - Tumblr
• Something magnificent & extraordinary: an exploration of Alpha Centauri - WordPress
• Paean to SMAC: Meditations on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - WordPress
• Faction reflections by Wars and Politics of Ice and Fire - Tumblr

Essays

• on Landmarks and map generation in SMAC by @procedural-generation
• "But For the Grace of Tuche: Why Writers Should Avoid the Temptations of Caricature" by Katherine Alejandra Cross (April 19, 2014) - on the characterization of Miriam
• "In Praise Of: Alpha Centauri" by The Scientific Gamer (August 23, 2012)

Books

• Official Novels and Fiction by Michael Ely

Guides

• Prima Official Strategy Guide
• Vel's SMAX Guide, version 4.0: The Unofficial Guide to Alpha Centauri by Velociryx
• SMAC - Alpha Centauri: Strategy Guide by Kai Ruhl, Land of Kain
• Wikibooks strategy guide
• The SMAC Academy - formerly on the Civilization Gaming Network
• General Strategy from SidGames.com - formerly on The Alpha Centauri Nexus (list of working links)

Tech Trees

• SMAC Tech Browser by Lemmy
• SMAC Technology Planner by Dietrich Epp
• Horizontal tech tree by Erik of dos486.com

Playthroughs and Let's Plays

• Playthrough reports by Erik of dos486.com
• Return To Alpha Centauri by Richard Cobbett
• A Brave Familiar World; Let's Play Alpha Centauri! by WingSounds

Quotes

• The Centauri Anthology by Chris Amorosi - navigate quotes by author, work, or tech type
• Wikiquote entry - only in-universe quotations
• TVTropes Quotes - includes quotes from GURPS RPG supplement, historical speakers
• Generation Terrorists quotes list - perhaps the first online SMAC quotes list

Art

• Alpha Centauri Redux - a modernized concept game GUI
• Journey to Centauri series by Feivelyn - seven leader portraits
• SMAC Tributes - The UNS Unity by Zerraspace - two technical schematics
• SMAC Faction Leaders clay sculptures by Daleksaresupreme, see individual entries
• I just started playing this game and I drew portraits of the Planet dudes! by writerv
• I drew portraits for the Planet gals and aliens! Thanks for the support! by writerv
• Alpha Centauri/Stellaris Art (Over 100 Techs) by theoathkeepers
• Peacekeepers art by amzdraws (@amazingfuntime)

Movies

• University Base - webseries based on Alpha Centauri
  • S1E1
  • Fractured Unity, Part 1 (S1E2)
  • Fractured Unity, Part 2 (S1E3)
• Alpha Centauri Album - 25h anniversary tribute quote videos by ZombiVoziKombi
• Every Cinematic & Voiceover in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2024 Edition) by DOWL
• (Fake) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri movie trailer by bloodrunsclear
• Alpha Centauri Movie Trailer by mcdaniej
• How Realistic is the Planet Chiron from Sid Miere's Alpha Centauri? by Alien Planetology

Memes

• P L A N E T F A L L by Jallybags
• Garfield Completes the Ascent to Transcendence by SardonicSays
• The End of Alpha Centauri by Strategos' Risk
• Dictionary of Smac, Third Edition - from original SMAC forums. Also see Second Edition (Revised)

Music

• "Datalinks" by Logic Bomb
• "The Weather Paradigm" by Chris Palmer
• SMAC: the Musical" (lyrics only)

Previews and betas

• Datapacrat's packratted SMAC data - tons of prerelease content, including Lal and Santiago drafts and the Preliminary Report on the Alpha Centauri System
• Scans of PC Gamer February 1998 preview of SMAC

Forum Archives

• Alpha.owo forums - second or third Firaxis SMAC forum, archived by AC2
• Archive of Ancient Civilization - Old forum threads from Apolyton purged in December 2010