While the exposition is drawn from the plot of the computer game, much of the siege and subsequent events draw heavily from Homer's Iliad. The UNHQ is sacked, but some of the population escapes to safety in Gaian territories, including Pravin Lal. Her stasis pod is damaged in the fighting, and she dies completely. Also, Pravin Lal's wife was hurt before planetfall and he's been keeping her in suspended animation until he finds a way to cure her. Thus both men pay the price for a disagreement between their respective parents. Infuriated, Santiago sends a team of her elite troops to storm the Peacekeeper base, while she herself finds her son's murderer and kills him in front of his father. While neither of the two leader's sons wants war, they are thrust right in the middle of it, leading up to the final confrontation between them, in which Lal's son kills Santiago's on the battlefield. This story is as much about the children of Pravin Lal and Corazon Santiago as it is about the two leaders. Santiago's own son also dies during the siege. Because of Lal's reluctance to use nerve gas to obliterate the Spartan forces, United Nations HQ falls, and Lal's wife, son, and grandson are killed in the process. While the Peacekeepers fight valiantly, they are greatly outnumbered and outgunned by the warlike Spartans. The conflict between the two factions is inevitable, as the Spartan forces enter Peacekeeper territory and lay siege to their main base - United Nations HQ. Convinced that such technology cannot fall into the hands of the Spartans, Commissioner Pravin Lal of the Peacekeepers refuses Santiago's demands. Initially found by the son of Colonel Corazon Santiago - the leader of the Spartans, the Datalinks are taken by the Peacekeepers who discover that they contain technology to make nerve gas. The discovery of a Unity Datalink lights the fuse on the brewing conflict. Tensions increase between the factions, particularly between the Peacekeepers with their UN-like attempts to maintain peace at any cost and the Spartans who believe strength is the key to survival. For example, the Gaians' belief that Chiron (AKA Planet) is alive contrasts sharply with the Morganites' complete disregard for ecology in favor of heavy mining. After contact is made between several colonies, trade relations are established, but are strained because each colony develops its own ideology.

Each colony pod becomes a colony, initially independent.

The trilogy was written by the game's story developer Michael Ely and describes the struggles of the colonists on Chiron - a habitable planet in the Alpha Centauri system, after their colony ship Unity suffered major damage and the survivors were forced to land in colony pods (this is described in the short story Journey to Centauri, available for download from the official website ). Alpha Centauri’s Planet is a terrible, terrible place where the best of intentions go to die.Centauri Dawn is the first book in the trilogy novelization of the popular computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. What starts as a mission of hope breaks up before it’s even really begun, and it’s not long after that that you’re nerve-stapling citizens and fighting wars where the losing immortal is thrown screaming into a pain booth. There’s the obvious stuff with the faction leaders and big text infodumps at regular intervals, but there’s also a lot of other important stuff going on that’s less front-of-house – not least the constant reinforcement of just how awful everything on the planet actually is. Story is a core part of the experience, and in Alpha Centauri more than any other 4X game ever made. In this article the author talks about how the story made Alpha Centauri memorable, and how the extensive lore behind Beyond Earth does not give you the same feeling of story in the game. PCGamer has published a new article, called “ Civilization: From Alpha Centauri To Beyond Earth“.

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