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GOD I love Klingons. The 7 foot tall, 100% in character ones especially. I remember from my trip to Las Vegas and the Star Trek Experience how bands of Klingons would cruise out into the Hilton's main lobby and intimidate regular guests. Frickin' awesome!

Thanks for the kind words, guys! OMG I made the front page!! : D

Well, I did a version of the Kilrathi theme. Let me know what you all think. I've been looking at some of the other WC2 music. There's really nothing I can do to improve on the higher quality recordings of Jazz on the piano. There's a few more big WC2 pieces that I can do... but I have...

You sick son of a bitch. Actually, if you end up winning the mission, you get all of their equipment back. LOL. I really want to start playing this game again now!

Oh man! I remember geting the 3.5" TFTD demo disk with my very first issue of PC Gamer. I played that mission a million times. It was pretty dang scary back then. I acquired an X-COM collection disk a little while back, and have been playing through TFTD again. It is very very hard. The...

Pork-barrel government spending and politicians bowing to pressure coming from their constituents and the military-industrial complex for the sweet, sweet nectar of government defense contracts. Like the senator dude from the beginning of Action Stations, blocking the new fighter...

The BW fighters in WC4 were a lot cooler than the Confed fighters, no doubt. So there must be some kind of reason that the resource-poor Border Worlds would be flying ships that are so cool. Some possibilities: 1. The Banshee, Vindicator, and Avenger were all designed by Confed during the...

There's a lot of different flavors of Java, and it can be really confusing for someone who doesn't know what they all are. Go here (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html), and download J2SE v 1.4.2_05 JRE, which is the Java Runtime Environment you'll need. That should have everything...

I'm using Propellerhead's Reason 2.5 software. I started using it at school and have gotten hooked. It comes with a crappy-yet-not-horrible sample library which is pretty diverse. Reason is a virtual 'rack', that lets you load instruments, run them through a dirty little sequencer, and then...

400+ or so. Got close to 600 in the '80s. But WW2 would probably be a better comparison (but still not very good?), with several thousand ships (if I recall correctly).

I agree with you about the harp part! I found that I didn't actually have any harp samples at all... so I am using violin pizzicato as a placeholder. : ) I'll probably just record some decent midi sounds, and then massage them sonically until they fit. I'll probably play with the intro...

I actually thought about making that argument, but decided not to. There's just so many unknown factors. How fast could Earth pump out colonists to new planets? What tech level did starting colonies have? Did advanced technology allow colony worlds to have a population as huge as the one in...

Yeah, good call. But I suppose the population to system relationship would still stand. Yeah... I guess it's not too tough though. We can take our starting population X. We can put population growth into discrete chunks (35 years... that's like 1.5 generations). Assume that each couple...

Well, there's no doubt that the number of humans killed in those 35 years is going to be absolutely huge... but not 2.1 trillion huge. At the end of Action Stations, there's a few interesting figures tossed around. 153 systems lost to the Kilrathi, 28 billion people caught behind the lines...

Not as foolish as 2.1 trillion, my friend! But still wrong. : )

2.1 trillion is a completely ridiculous figure, given other stuff we know. The Kilrathi would have to have totally destroyed 200 planets with populations of 10 billion. I suggest that it is a typo... 2.1 billion is a lot more reasonable. We know that a lot of the planets taken out in...

Stones are dead.

Thanks Spien! Is it just the lack of the harp at the beginning? Which instrument am I using that you don't like?

Hey, I remixed the WC2 theme with some higher quality instruments. I am planning on doing at least a few more from the WC2 soundtrack. What do you guys think of it? http://students.washington.edu/peteyg/Wing%20Commander%20II%20-%20Main%20Theme%20remix.mp3

Actually, a LOT of people watched (and liked) the BSG mini... er... two-part movie. It brough Sci-Fi some ultra-huge ratings. But I think the main thing that made Sci-Fi pop their corks was the fact that ratings went up in a big way between pt 1 and 2, which doesn't happen a lot in TV...