[SpaceBadger]

I will always have a fond memory of this one message that I got from an AI empire the first night I was trying out the SEIV demo. My son and I were playing a hotseat game on my PC, and an AI ally of mine had just declared war against my son. I sent a message to the AI ally asking that he make peace with my son, and got back this little gem: "What? You would hold us back against the murderous Panda Confederation? Do not stand in our way, Grand Admiral SpaceBadger!" This just struck us as incredibly hilarious, so much that we were still chuckling over it later when I was putting him to bed.

OK, I know now that it was just a canned message from one of the AI files, with our game names filled in at the appropriate spots by wildcards, but that was the first we'd ever seen of that sort of thing and it was amazing! I got Online to Shrapnel and ordered the game the very next morning, and we still continued to play the demo in every spare moment until the real thing arrived.

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