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Re: Splitting tech. It sounds like a good idea to split between an expensive item and a cheap item until you do the math. You get the expensive item in the exact same amount of time. By splitting tech, all you are doing is delaying the cheap item.

Re: Wave motion. It predates Star Blazers. Unless I am dreaming, it was first used on Bugs Bunny when our favorite rabbit encountered the martian, … the one with the broom on his head. That brings the wave motion gun to the 1950s or so.

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I think you're thinking of the "Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" that Marvin needs to blow up the earth. Do a google search on "explosive space modulator" and you'll find it. Check out this site: http://members.home.net/kdpennock/marvin/marvin.htm

Search on Wave Motion Gun and you'll find the Star Blazers stuff, like at this site: http://www.wizard.net/~jghiloni/links.html

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And that reminds me: I want Wave Motion Engines too!

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That's what so great about Space Empires; you can have them. Just design them and add them to your files. Getting the AI to use them is a different story.

[This message has been edited by General Hawkwing (edited 06 November 2000).]

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Psitticine: "I also remember Star Blazers/Yamato very fondly."

Hai! Most certainly, yes!

LintMan: "As for the Wave Motion Gun - Star Blazers was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid. The WMG was the Big Gun on the Yamato."

Another fan... Yes! Yes! Yes!

Repo Man: "BTW, does anyone know the true source of the Wave Motion Gun?"

Yes!, Uchuu Senkan Yamato [Space Battleship Yamato], a.k.a. "Star Blazers" in the U.S.

I'm a big 4X fan: MOO2, BOTF, IG II, and now SE IV, yeah! But, Yamato/Star Blazers has a special place in my heart.... Nice to see WMG in SE IV. It was a "game-killer" in the show, though.