And there is no terrain safe from them since they also come in aquatic and flying variations. Worse yet, the xenofungus acts as a home to Mind Worms, which randomly boil out of the fungus and attack human settlements by psychically stunning their victims with fear, burrowing inside their brains, and placing their ravenous larvae inside, causing the hapless victims to die a Horrible death, with a capital H. The local 'flora', known as Xenofungus, covers much of the surface and prevents settlement or even easy transport where it occurs.

The atmosphere is far too light on oxygen and heavy on nitrogen, forcing anybody exiting sealed colonies to wear oxygen masks (with the only saving grace being that at least they don't need pressure suits), and that's the least of their concerns. Upon their arrival, however, everybody finds, to their horror, that Planet is not nearly the safe haven they had hoped for.

the self-inserted Firaxians, which may or may not be two factions, since either Sid Meier or Brian Reynolds can lead.

and two alien factions, the Manifold Usurpers led by Judaa Maar and the Manifold Caretakers led by Lular H'minee.ДЄ little tweaking would also reveal a secret faction:.

Each faction has a different ideology and their own plans to achieve prosperity in the new world. As a result, the Unity's captain is murdered, and the crew is now split into 7 different factions, each one commandeering a colony pod and launching for the surface of Chiron (known in the game as 'Planet', and yes, that's a proper noun). An explosion on board causes massive damage to the ship's thrusters, creating an escalating crisis among the ship's leaders. The deep freeze system malfunctioned and the colonists found themselves living on rations meant for colonization in spaces around the ship not meant for living quarters.

The mission: stash as many people as possible within the spaceship, deep freeze them to sleep, get the hell off of the Earth towards Alpha Centauri, the closest star from the Sun, form a settlement on Chiron, a planet orbiting the star that seems to have most of the necessary conditions to sustain sentient life, and leave the planet of their birth to fester and decay like a parasite fleeing a corpse.Д«ut Finagle's Law says everything that can go wrong will go wrong, and this mission was not the exception. In a last attempt to save Humanity from extinction, the United Nations ordered the construction of a massive spaceship, the UNS Unity. In 2060 AD, the Earth was one hell of an awful place to live, torn apart by war and sunken into disgrace by poverty and ecological damage.

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