Pkunk are Sa-Matra slayers.  I didn't know you could kill the fireballs, that would have saved me some pain.

Yeah avoiding probes is the best way to deal with them

It's an acronym!

Slime Posing As Meat...SPAM

Pretty funny and creative.

Can you actually sell the ships in the original version, I seem to remember that you could, but in UQM all you can do is empty the ship of crew and then scrap it for no RU.

I thought it was good, though Brad Pitt did seem a little out of place.  Other than that I thought all the actors did well and the battle scenes were awesome.

thats the point isnt it?

Even in the PC version it was 100 minerals before upgrade and 200 after.

When I played the game as a child, my buddy and I went to damn near every star and marked on the large paper map what resources, biological, and artifacts there were.  It took forever and the map was probably thrown away by one of our parents.  Damn.  What a waste.

Yes, defeating the Ur-quan with a Spathi Eluder is pathetically easy.

Rip off site, selling files they have no rights to.

That's not a bad idea, it would be much more realistic.

Yeah I was surprised to find that out, steal the helix get home and can still buy Torches.  Sweet.

Speaking of Dune I read the entire first series, but have recently been reading the books by Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, they are prequels to the first book Dune and their second series is about the Butlerian Jihad (which is the overthrow of machine overlords by humans on Earth in the VERY distant future) and these books are incredibly well written, sticking true to Frank Herbert's style.

Thanks for some of the suggestions though I have read many of them (lots of Isaac Asimov, a little Clark, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, had to read Frankenstein in high school wasn't a fan) but I have never read Ender's game.  Should check that one out.

Also Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is some of the most intense descriptive writing out there...if only it didn't take him so long to write a book.

Anyone who doesn't play with a Spathi seems crazy to me...