Okay, time to introduce myself!
I'm vv221 or vv222 on the Web, dave, vv222 or "sale pute" on IRC, dave on my computer, Antoine, Hippie or Jesus in real life, 23 y.o., and a real SMAC freak.
How I happened to come here?
It all started a little bit more than a week ago…
*read in a strong, deep voice*
I went to a friend's place and we began a Civ5 hotseat after trying to start an Endless Space one and realizing it doesn't have that essential feature.
But I thought I would soon turn bored, and made a proposal: an alternation between two hotseat games. No need to say which game I choose, I guess?
Only a slight thing was disturbing my friend about SMAC: I had only an English version at my disposal.
So, I went to work and realized a full translation pack (the only one including tranlation of movies that I know).
This work took me such time I decided when it was done to share it all over the Internet, so I DuckDuckWent "alpha centauri forum" and started to post links to my pack here and there.
But there was something that happened here and didn't elsewhere: I've been warmly welcomed!
It turned me into lurking a bit over the forum, and I realized I was in a place I had never ever dreamed of: an ACTIVE Alpha Centauri community! Not a Civilization one with bits of SMAC here and there, but a truly, fully dedicated to SMAC community…
Now that I'm here I realize it is not the first time I come to alphacentauri2.info, but I think I only went before through the Downloads section and the Wiki, not even realizing there was a real active forum here.
I'm playing Alpha Centauri since something like 2001~2002, and it is with no doubt my all time favourite.
Not only the best 4X I've played, simply the BEST VIDEO GAME EVAR!!1!
I think I'm the kind of SMACer you don't see everyday: the GNU/Linux user one

I started with SMAC on a Windows 98 or XP (can't remember exactly), with a French CD version, and soon bought the expansion pack for even more fun.
When I switched to Linux around 2008, I discovered that there has been a Linux native version published by the now defunct Loki publisher, and did everything I could to find a copy. When I understood there was no way I could buy it from anywhere, I resorted to *cough*find*cough* it by other means…
Geek as I am, I even turned it into a Debian package (now two packages, one for the English version and one for the French one).
Now here I am, and here I intend to stay!
It's quite cosy here, isn't it?