The Peacekeepers
The story of SMAC begins with a unified crew. They were to depart to the planet Chiron on the colony ship 'Unity' to set up the first human colony. In the hours before the Unity debarked to the planet, all hell broke loose. the Captain was murdered and the many human souls flocked to the various leaders they thought best for survival on the new world below, called 'Planet'
The Peacekeepers work hard to keep the peace through diplomacy and maintaining the United Nations charter. They are led by Commissioner Pravin Lal of India He was the UNS Unity's Chief of Surgery and third-in-command after its arrival in the Alpha Centauri system. The United Nations-style bureaucracy of the faction causes them to have less efficent use of the materials they have, and receive an efficency penality. The Peacekeepers attract intellectual elites and get a bonus Talent (counters drones, the games version of angry citizens) Peacekeeper colonies may grow two sizes beyond normal population restrictions. In votes for Planetary Governor and Supreme Leader, Lal's experience with politics means the Peacekeepers' votes are doubled. The Peacekeepers favor democratic politics and may not use a police state government in social engineering, and neither are they keen on religious dogma thanks to their liberal universalist tendencies. They usually have problems with the Hive and the Believers, who favor Police states and fundamentalist values. Their founding base is United Nations Headquarters.
Pravin Lai had a wife on board the Unity and she dies before she can be roused from cyrosleep.
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"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose thier grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting it's grip on public discourse has begun it's rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you acess to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Commisioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Nice dude
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