14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Firaxis and publisher 2K Games have revealed yet another of the faction leaders in the upcoming Civilization: Beyond Earth, this time around in the form of the head of a more militaristic faction, commander Rejinaldo Leonardo Pedro Bolivar De Alencar-Arapire.
Civilization: Beyond Earth is a turn-based strategy title that aims to continue the journey of mankind beyond our present time for the first time in the series, taking the action to a distant planet, where humanity must strive to find a second home.
After a series of disasters known as The Great Mistake make Earth not fit as a home for us anymore, the various factions that humankind is divided in all make an attempt to reach the stars and settle a distant and perilous planet.
The journey of man will take different forms, some choosing to become one with the new home, while others decide to make it the spitting image of the home left behind, and other still see technology as the thing that saved us and decide to embrace it, setting human evolution on an entirely new path.
The introduction of the new commander is made, as is the case of all the other leaders, in a very organic manner, through a speech delivered by the leader of Brasilia to the prospective members of the Seeding One operation.
“Everyone in this room has been chosen for Seeding One, as you’ve probably guessed. Everyone in this room knows what’s at stake. If you accept, you are leaving Earth, your families, your homes, Brasilia, and you are not coming back. For the purposes of everyone on this planet, you will be dead the moment Aguia departs orbit. This is a suicide mission,” Commander Bolivar begins.
He tells of the many sacrifices that Brasilia had to make in order to make the mission possible, and of the selfless initiative that they undertook, of the moral duty of the strong to protect the helpless. His speech also delivers a little more information on the socio-political status of the world, and offers a glimpse of the nature of The Great Mistake, the event that forced mankind to seek another home.
“Brasilia was the guardian of the reconstruction during the Great Mistake. We stood guard over the UN camps in central Asia, our planes carried the relief supplies in and the refugees out of the fallout zones, and we took down the warlords and carved out a space where an effective government could be formed. We did what the Norteamericanos or Chinese would not do. We did what the Europeans could not do. We, Brasilia, acquitted ourselves with honor,” the Commander says.
Civilization: Beyond Earth is scheduled to come out on October 24, 2014, for Windows PC, Mac and Linux.