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The Internet Archive is making classic 70's and 80's games availiable online for free, with a promise to continually expand thier library. Outstanding.

Seriously, it is not hard to set up a single tile wide strip of a burrow where you want them to stand, and set up an alert to send them there.

"So, laser weapons might not kill them, but will render them blind. In the medium term future we could use this to obtain living specemins! As for thier weapon... it seems half shotgun, half flamethrower. All the more reason to engage at range where possible. Reccomend that soldiers wishing to carry a shotgun into combat consider one of these as an alternative, at least until we can reverse engineer these shards into our own weapon that adresses the drawbacks of the alien design."

Question: is reverse engineering of this weapon feasable at the current moment in time? Either just the ammo in some kind of self contained round fired from a shotgun, or a complete weapon pattern to replace the shotgun/flamethrower with a more lethal human tech weapon based on the alien tech?

*reads thread*...

Wow, genuinley impressed by people nominating other here. Stuggling to find a name that has not been mentioned, but seeing as he gifted me a game on STEAM earlier this year may I please throw Dutchling into the hat please?

Go with the stats. Skills can be raised by practice, but stats remain fixed.

Addon request to alien autopsy - test crystal structures response to laser light.

Prof Jones Private Journal Entry...

"A truly fascinating, and alien, organism. How they percieve the world, with all that sensory input, must be truly glorious. The lack of any obvious reproductive system suggests someone is growing and enhancing these creatures.

Right, on to what I consider the prize of the collection - the rifle, with its crystal flechettes... I am itching to see what a bundle of these can do when fired from a shotgun, or a single large one is fired from a large rifle..."

+1 to codenames. Using this generator, mission 1 should be called Operation Shiny Screwdriver.