Essential links

• Alpha Centauri 2
  • Official Firaxis website mirror
    • Faction Leader bios
    • Native Life and concept creatures
  • Custom Factions - How-to Guides, Modding Goody Files, Samples Galore
  • Beginners' Getting-Started Strategy Guide
• Reddit subreddit
• Discord server
• Civ Fanatics subforum
• Apolyton subforum - long-running SMAC community, now sleeping

Lore

• Official Novels and Fiction by Michael Ely

Fansites

• Sakura's Thoughts: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Light For Chiron - Tumblr
• Something magnificent & extraordinary: an exploration of Alpha Centauri - WordPress blog
• Paean to SMAC: Meditations on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - WordPress blog

Art

• SMAC Concept Art by Michael Haire - former Firaxis artist
• GIFs of SMAC/X Images - from Active Sid Meyer's Alpha Cenaturi and Alien Crossfire Players List
• Alpha Centauri Redux - a modernized concept game GUI
• Alpha Centauri Album - 25h anniversary tribute quote videos by ZombiVoziKombi
• University Base: Alpha Centauri - first of a series of fan films
• (Fake) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri movie trailer by bloodrunsclear
• Journey to Centauri series - seven leader portraits by Feivelyn
• SMAC Tributes - The UNS Unity - two technical schematics by Zerraspace
• SMAC Faction Leaders clay sculptures by Daleksaresupreme, see individual entries

Gameplay Guides

• Vel’s SMAX Guide, version 4.0: The Unofficial Guide to Alpha Centauri by Velociryx
• The SMAC Academy - formerly on the Civilization Gaming Network

Mods and Custom Factions

Fanfics and Worldbuilding

Old Sites and Fun Stuff

• Datapacrat's packratted SMAC data - tons of prerelease content, including Lal and Santiago drafts and the Preliminary Report on the Alpha Centauri System
• Scans of PC Gamer February 1998 preview of SMAC
• Alpha.owo forums - second or third Firaxis SMAC forum, archived by AC2
• Archive of Ancient Civilization - Old forum threads from Apolyton purged in December 2010

Fanfic archives

A House United: An Alpha Centauri NationSim