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Hi everybody.

Back when I had the original pc game, I typed one of the .dat files, and found a list of all the devices in the game - the mycon egg sack, the casters, portal spawner, etc.

I also found something called precursor data discs, which I could never find in the game. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

It is probably the melnorme upgrades to your flagship.

An abandoned idea i guess. Happenes in many games.
There's a list of artifacts somewhere including the ones that are not used by the game.

Oh... by the way. I remember that when I played SC2 about 9 years ago I somehow managed to get an afterburner from the  Thraddash. It doubled your hyperspace speed (and fuel usage by the way). Now the funny part is that I couldn't get it ever again. For all the years it did not bother me at all, but recently I decided to get it at all costs! I tried everything with the Thraddash but couldn't get it from them. Then I checked the net, and found list of artifacts... but there was no such thing as an afterburner, not even in the abandoned ideas section. It had be my imagination I thought, it wouldn't be suprising because when I was little my imagination was solid as a rock. But what's even funnier, I remember that I played the game with my friend that day, he got quite excited he told it to my brother and cousin (we all played SC2 back then).
So not so much time ago, my brother saw me playing SC2 and aked:
Have you found the Thraddash afterburner?...
Tried to argue that such a thing does't exist but he reminded me of my friend screaming like a madman about it years ago, and it would be a little bit stupid of me to insist that it was just my imagination...
Hell I dont know what to think about it. Thought I'd tell you guys maybe someone also found it. Then I wouldn't have to worry that me, my friend, and my family are all loonies...

Did you tried to talk with them after they became your "students"? Or while they fight the illwraths(and still your students)? Maybe they give it to you, i didn't check, i just rushed back to earth base and bought 4 of thier ships(that ship kick ass the ur-quan, the koar-ah and most important, the probes!)...

I remember something similar... when I was playing Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, I once found the "Fountain of Youth".

When trying to find it later, I could not. The Sir-Tech hint line hand't heard of it. Later searching for it, I couldn't even find the string "Fountain of Youth" in the game data (though I could find just about every other string in the game, like "Tiltowait" and "You fell into a pit!!" and "has been slain!"). Very frustrating.

From [link]http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/history/preiche.shtml[/link]:


I've found a little bit of (unused) code relating to three dataplates. That code would make it so that the commander will tell you about the dataplates when you have them. You can't get those dataplates anywhere though, and there's no actual text for the commander to say.

Oh, and there's no such thing as a Thraddash afterburner item.
The only way to get a Thraddash afterburner is to get a complete Thraddash ship, and the only way to get it loose from the rest of the ship is to get it blown up in combat. You might get a some resources from the debris if it's not your ship, but no complete afterburner.

Wasn't there some mention by Hayes of some abandoned data discs on Pluto that indirectly referred to the Precursors? Yes, it sounds like a bit of trivia and fluff, and I doubt it was intended as a serious plot device (beyond getting you curious enough to go look for Fwiffo) but who knows, maybe it WAS an abandoned plot device and Haye's conversation may have referred to it.

When I was young I would have dreams about video games, and in my dreams things would happen in the game--and I would be absolutely convinced they were real.

Which reminds me -- if you get your ships blown up in combat, you don't recover any RU's from them! What a gyp!
(Either that or it's been so long since I lost a ship in-game that I forgot)

That's because it would be immoral for you to cash in on the passing of your comrades in arms. naturally, you give them a Viking funeral in space, and let the burning wrecks slowly float away into space.

I had a big crush on Princess Peach, so she and I had many dreams together....

*Ahem*  If you check out Yukki's site, she's got some goodies in her treasure box.  One of them is a bunch of icons for all the device ideas in the game.  No sign of any precursor data disks, but there are other devices that never saw the light.

http://home.att.ne.jp/wave/rainbow/Toys_for_Bob/test_devices.htm