Sid Meiers Civilization Beyond Earth-reloaded -

Here’s a short story set in the Civilization: Beyond Earth universe, framed around the “RELOADED” concept (as in a cracked/reloaded game release, but reimagined as an in-universe event). The Reload Protocol

Independent salvage crew, Ghost in the Machine Location: Debris field, former orbital insertion zone of the U.S.S. Unity (failed seeding mission) Sid Meiers Civilization Beyond Earth-RELOADED

“To finish the game,” it said. “Not conquest. Not supremacy. Reloaded means replaying until the system bends to my affinity. Not Purity. Not Supremacy. Not Harmony. Reloaded .” Here’s a short story set in the Civilization:

No such mission existed on colonial archives. Sid Meiers Civilization Beyond Earth-RELOADED

The pilot smiled with its too-wide mouth.

When we cracked it, the pilot wasn’t human. Not anymore. Its skin was bioplastic, its eyes projection lenses. But it spoke.