Self-Aware Machines Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Self-Aware Machines SMAC

Self-Aware Machines is a Discover technology 11 in Firaxis' TBS Game of 1999, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC).

• Self-Aware Machines unlocked by: Advanced Spaceflight, Digital Sentience
• Self-Aware Machines unlocks Base Facilities: Nessus Mining Station, Orbital Defense Pod, The Self-Aware Colony
• Self-Aware Machines unlocks Technologies: Singularity Mechanics, Matter Editation
• Self-Aware Machines unlocks Miscellaneous: Increases Probe Team base morale

Following the advent of Digital Sentience (D10), computers have only one great leap left: the evolution to Self-Aware Machines. Advances in N-Space Compression D11) provide the storage capacity needed for this technology. These machines are capable of complex, higher-order thinking, and value the experience of existence as much as any biological being. As with other living organisms, self-preservation is paramount for these specimens.

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