Designers | Jon F. Zeigler |
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Publishers | Steve Jackson Games |
Systems | GURPS |
GURPS Alpha Centauri is a sourcebook for GURPS Third Edition.
GURPS Alpha Centauri details the setting of the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri computer game. [1]
Steve Jackson Games published GURPS Alpha Centauri, a sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game set in the Alpha Centauri universe. [2]
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the Civilization series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet Chiron ("Planet") in the Alpha Centauri star system. As the game progresses, Planet's growing sentience becomes a formidable obstacle to the human colonists.
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