We have a player over at StarConRPG, named Nargle, who has compiled an ORZ dictionary.  I'll let him know about this and see what he has to say.

http://www.starconrpg.com

Just to add to the list, I agree too.  

Maybe they are tracking mutation rates, or are attempting to map some sort of universal genetic similarity.  

I saw the car/plane VOLTRON first, then went back and watched the Lion VOLTRON.  There was a VOLTRON where they met and joined forces, but the car one is still my favorite.  I'm surprised that you remember Star-Blazers being 28.  I'm 33 and I was "fairly young" when it came out.

It always struck me that the Kohr-Ah were the more brute strength fighters while the Kzer-Za used their intellect more...as in the fighters.

The most resurrections I can recall having with a single Fury is 16.

I imagine the same reasoning applied to the crews on VOLTRON waiting until the end to combine the lions/ships into the single VOLTRON robot.  

When the Kohr-Ah wipe a system clean, they move on.
When the Kzer-Za conquer a system they probably leave behind some ships to make sure that thralls stay loyal.  By the very nature of their two approaches, they Kohr-Ah would seem to bring a bigger fleet to the battle.  The Kzer-Za are too spread out, while the Kohr-Ah move en masse.

I thought the human voice was terrible, it sounded nothing like....um....nevermind.  

the first would be STAR BLAZERS (US) or SPACE BATTLE SHIP YAMATO (japan). as for the second name , dont know.
i miss that cartoon.

A fellow Star Blazers Fan??  There are others out there?  I thought I was the last!!   *sniff*  The memory lives on...*sniff*

In the Mutineers Moon (etc.) Novels, the Super Advanced Race was wiped out almost instantly by a highly contagious infection which spread by a teleportation device.  They had advanced to the point where teleportation was possible, and unfortunately diseases also made it from point A to point B almost instantly too.  Just a thought.

As for the shields, maybe they needed space to cool them?

I think that your right about mashing a hand into the keyboard.  I tried it too, and got pretty damn close.  

Perhaps the Arilou/Orz are part of the whole ancient Egyptian Horus/Set war.  Arilou could be Horus, Orz could be Set.

Maybe it was a power surge?  Or, maybe it wasted so much time trying to find a "best fit" that it just gave up.

Yeah, you never know.  They might have screwed up and make a really good game.