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Galactic Civilizations

Table of Contents

Installation and Requirements

Introduction

Our story so far…

Starting a new game

The Main Game Interface

Your Civilization in Action

Combat

Starbases

Star System View

The Planet View

The Planet List

The Fleet List

Domestic Policy

Setting Foreign Policy

Diplomacy

Setting Technology Policy

Events & Ethics

Influence

The United Planets

The Metaverse

Basic Walkthrough

Reference

Technology Tree

Planet Classes

Social Project Improvements

Getting Support

Credits

Technical Support

License agreement and limited warranty

Galactic Civilizations

Galactic Civilizations

Installation and Requirements

Galactic Civilizations requires a Pentium III level computer running at 600 MHz or higher. We recommend a 1 GHz

Pentium III level computer or better for optimal performance.

Galactic Civilizations requires approximately 500 megabytes of hard disk space for all multimedia features to be

installed.

It requires a display capable of supporting at least 1024x768x16 bit color. You can download additional updates

to the game including new events, ships, and technologies from http://www.galciv.com .

Introduction

Galactic Civilizations is a strategy game in which you take the helm of human civilization in the year 2178. It is

a time of great change for humanity as a new technology, known as “hyper-drive”, has allowed civilizations to

travel great distances in a short amount of time. This means that countless planets are now open to coloniza-

tion and exploration. However, humans are not alone in the galaxy, several other space faring civilizations are

doing the same thing. It is up to you to decide how humanity will interact with these other civilizations.

Victory in Galactic Civilizations means survival and success for the human civilization. This can be done

in one of several ways:

• Conquest: If you conquer all of the alien civilizations, you win.

• Political Victory: If you and your alien allies are able to conquer all opposition you win.

• Technology Victory: If humanity can research enough technology that it transcends to the next level of exis-

tence, you win.

• Cultural Victory : If you dominate 7/8th of the sectors culturally, you win via cultural domination.

Our story so far…

The year is 2178, but our story really begins 50 years earlier. For this is when humans first came into contact with

an alien civilization. The faint signals of an Arcean probe were picked up on sensors in Australia. It didn’t take

long for a very basic level of contact to begin between Earth and Arcea. It was the beginning of our interstellar

education.

For thousands of years, several interstellar civilizations have been sending probes throughout the galaxy.

Transportation between different outposts was conducted through star-gates. These star-gates were immense

structures that were obscenely expensive to use and maintain. As a result, the civilizations actually have had very

limited contact with one another (and none with humans, obviously).

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Once human scientists understood the concept of stargates and how they worked, they set on a course to try

to improve to them. About a decade before the start of the game, these scientists introduce to the galaxy a new

technology called “hyper-drive”.

Humans by the 23rd century had concluded that any civilization capable of interstellar travel must certainly have

long since grown out of their violent militaristic stage and one of the leading scientists involved with the project

shared the design of “hyper-drive” with all five of the major alien civilizations. Almost instantly, communication

with the other civilizations came to a halt.

After months of silence, the government of United Earth came to the conclusion that “hyper-drive” would allow

the colonization of the galaxy and what was likely to occur was a race to claim star systems that contained

inhabitable planets. It was decided that Earth must not fall behind and the design for a colony ship developed.

This brings us to 2178, the beginning of the era known as “Galactic Civilizations”. The first colony ship has been

created along with a survey ship to explore the numerous anomalies throughout the galaxy.

Now the race is on to find and colonize unclaimed star systems with good planets (class 15 or better), find and

claim galactic resources (by building constructors that can then build starbasess on them), and ensure that human-

ity can survive in a potentially hostile galaxy.

Starting a new game

Upon loading Galactic Civilizations you are presented with 3 options: Start a New civilization, Restore Last

Civilization, and Load Saved Civilization. Loading a saved one will allow you to choose a previously saved game.

Restoring will bring back the most recent auto-save available.

When choosing a new game, Galactic Civilizations will ask you to create your civilization:

Designing a Civilization

On this screen, you can decide what kind of civilization you would like to have. Humanity is yours to mold. You

can name your civilization anything you want.

You can select your political party from this screen. Political parties give your civilization advantages in specif-

ic areas. However, they are only good when your political party is in control of your Galactic Senate. The initial

government type, Imperial, ensures you will always have control of the senate at the beginning but as more

advanced forms of government come into play, control of the senate becomes more difficult.

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The political parties available are:

Federalists

The federalists are big believers in having the government be somewhat distributed. They tend to be fairly expert in

financial matters internally. Choosing this party will give your civilization a 20% boost in tax revenue and a 10%

boost in industrial production.

Pacifists

The pacifists are strong believers in peace. Any civilization capable of interstellar travel must be peaceful.

Disagreements andwarfare between civilizations is due to misunderstanding. Choosing this party will give your

civilization a 30% bonus to your influence and 30% bonus to your diplomacy ability. However, it will lower your

military production rate by 20%.

War Party

The war party sees the alien races for what they are, vermin that must be controlled. The best defense is a good

offense. The human race has a manifest destiny to control the entire galaxy. Choosing this party will give your

civilization a 30% bonus to starship weapons, double the number of hit points your starships receive and a 10%

bonus to the quality of your soldiers.

Progressive

The progressive party sees things in terms of social progress. The galaxy is probably too big to be conquered

with crude weapons and ships. The future belongs to the civilization that creates the most powerful society as

a whole and abides by intergalactic laws. This party gets a 50% bonus to social project manufacturing.

Mercantile

The Mercantilists understand the true power of “hyper-drive” – trade. It is through trade that the galaxy will be

united under human guidance. Exporting goods and culture to other civilizations will make them more depend-

ent and human prosperity for their own success. The Mercantilists receive a 30% bonus to trade via freighters

and the value of human trade goods is increased by 30%. As an extra bonus, they enjoy a 10% bonus to espi-

onage.

Populists

The populists are the party of the people. They care. They really do. They believe in focusing on the needs and

fears of the people and as a result, they bring a 30% increase to morale and increase your influence by 10%. They

also highly encourage humans to be fruitful and multiply which gives a 10% boost to population growth.

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