Gaia's Stepdaughters (SMAC)

Lady Deirdre Skye
Lady Deirdre Skye
Name	Deirdre Skye
Rank	Lt. Commander
Position	Chief Botanist/Xenobiologist
Country of Origin	Scotland
DOB	05-28-2025
Height	170.1 cm
Weight	52.2 kg

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Gaia's Stepdaughters are a faction in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Led by Lady Deirdre Skye, they seek harmony with planet.

Faction characteristics

• +1 Planet (environmental safeguards; can capture mind worms)
• +2 Efficiency (experience with life systems such as recycling)
• -1 Morale (pacifist tendencies)
• -1 Police (freedom-loving)
• +1 Nutrients in fungus squares
• Can use mind worms as police unit (reverence for native life).
• May not use Free Market economics
• Aggression Pacifist
• Priorities Explore
• Starting Tech Centauri Ecology
• Agenda Green (Economics)
• Aversion Free Market (Economics)

Although Deirdre is not restricted from using the Planned economics choice, an AI-controlled Deirdre will take offense at a player's choice of such.

Leader's defining quote

In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.

-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Planet Dreams"

Writings

• Conversations With Planet
• The Collected Poems
• Planet Dreams
• Our Secret War

Staff

• Dr. Scott, science advisor
• Lindly, native-lifeform specialist talent. If the first native-lifeform combat unit created by the Gaians dies, Deirdre will create a monument known as Lindly's Rest.

List of bases

Land

1. Gaia’s Landing
2. Gaia’s High Garden
3. Forest Primeval
4. Children of Earth
5. Vale of Winds
6. Mindworm Pass
7. Blackroot Palace
8. Greenhouse Gate
9. Razorbeak Wood
10. Last Rose of Summer
11. Lucky Autumn
12. Dreams of Green
13. The Pines
14. Velvetgrass Point
15. Song of Planet
16. Nessus Shining
17. Silverbird Park
18. Fallow Time
19. Autumn Grove
20. The Flowers Preach
21. Resplendent Oak
22. Lily of the Valley
23. Virgin Soil
24. Garden of Paradise
25. Thorny Vineyard
26. Chiron Preserve
27. Memory of Earth
28. Mindworm Laboratory
29. Fungus Formation
30. Xenofields Preservation
31. Garden of Eden
32. Chiron’s Guardian
33. Trees of Wisdom
34. Echoing Forests
35. City on Trees
36. Harmony Valley
37. Muirs Keep
38. Red Hill City
39. Peace with Planet
40. Planetary Walk
41. Greenhouse Complex
42. The Greenwell
43. Sun Soaked Fields
44. Gnarled Roots
45. Oaken Shadow
46. Blessed Autumn
47. Glowmite Towers
48. The Green Way
49. Nature’s Bounty
50. Mother’s Love

Water

1. Garden of the Deep
2. Deirdre’s Fishery
3. Water Garden
4. Ocean Flower
5. Falling Water
6. Great Lagoon
7. Sea Cradle
8. Garden of Fishes
9. Sea of Green

Trivia

• The leader of Gaia's Stepdaughters is voiced by Carolyn Dahl.

See also

• Strategy_guide_(SMAC)#Gaians_and_Cult_of_Planet_factions

External links

• Official site's profile of Gaia's Stepdaughters and their leader
• Wikipedia:Gaia philosophy