Here&#x27;s a blog (that I found from an HN comment, interestingly!) where someone goes through and analyzes all the SMAC flavor text and writes about how well-done it was. It was interesting for me because there&#x27;s a lot more depth than I realized when I first played SMAC, and the different factions all seemed to me more like caricatures than real philosophical viewpoints:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paeantosmac.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paeantosmac.wordpress.com</a>