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There was optimism in the air way back in 1999.
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...if you haven't played Sid Meier's Alpha Centari before, I have to say this does frequently lead to conflicts later on.
It is, but I guess Civ always was. From the start the whole "leave Earth, go multiplanetary" thing was baked into the endgame. If anything AC was a post-history sequel.
I mean, honeslty, it was mostly a popular sci-fi mashup, but... you know, that as well.