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More pre-release hype from Tofu? WHOOT WHOOT WHOOOT! Whips off a towel!

Twelve Colonies of Kobol - Battlestar Galactica Quorum of the Twelve (ruling body) - Battlestar Galactica Elution Alliance - Stargate

Playing AI, I usually bum rush Coruscant. Get all your fleets meeting up at a neutral or rebel planet in Swessanna or Corellia sectors. If you are lucky enough to have 2 alliance carriers to start, this will be a breeze. Make sure to send Han, Chewy, Antilles to a Corvette at a neutral planet near Coruscant and start sabbing defenses or ships. Have the rest of the fleet rondevue and merge forces or time it out for multiple fleets to arrive on the same day at Coruscant. Kill the defense and capture the planet. Move your HQ and all fighters and troops you have to Coruscant and hold down fort knox for the rest of the game... if you had it on standard victory, if it was HQ, congrats, you won!

The required .dll on the disk is from DirectX 5.0 for Windows 95/98, I would recommend installing the one from the link provided as it is DirectX 9.1c from Windows XP. Same filename, completely different version and optimizations. It may work for Rebellion, but this same fix will work with many other games and applications that need the file if you use the newest one.

Lets assume they have fighters, still not much of a threat. How to handle this... you start with 10 ties on Coruscant, drop the 6 from your ISD to the surface giving you 16 on the ground. If you have an officer nearby send him to Coruscant and give him Commander rank. This way all fighters will be in orbit and not have to come out of ISD hanger. Use them in swarm formation around a navigation point near your entry point and let the rebel fighters come to you, 16 ties in swarm away from corvettes would easily slaughter 12 x/y's and put the ISD in surround mode and attack the center corvette formation. This will trap at least one corvette with the tractor before the AI orders retreat, all other corvettes if AI maintains attack will have to alter vector around the ISD and will slow their approach on your TIEs giving them time to kill the rebel x/y wings. Brilliant!

House was written as an after thought to compete with serious medical shows like ER and a comedy like Scrubs. It really sucks at both. A crippled smartass dope addict who happens to be a friggin' genius, yeah, real original. Is George Lucas executive producer of this crap show or what?

That's typically an error message displayed by Windows XP 64-bit editon. 32-bit Windows is capable of running 16/32 bit applications; XP 64-bit on the other hand can only run 32/64 bit applications. If you indeed do have XP 32-bit then it may be some type of memory shadowing option or PAE addressing is turned on in the laptop's BIOS. Try adjusting those features in the laptop's system BIOS if they are available (on laptops, options can be limited). Otherwise, also try downloading and installing the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=24da89e9-b581-47b0-b45e-492dd6da2971&displaylang=en If that doesn't fix it, create a gmail account and mail me at [ budious at gmail dot com ] and I can email the 64-bit installation tool which also works on 32-bit windows.

Side scrolls the calender... drops down a ladder to the next row... argh! Duke Nukem - Forever! *** Taps his wrist absent of a watch to remind the crew it is only 214 more days until the 10th Anniversary of the Rebellion release party *** Budious will be bringing hard liqour and ice cream cake to the #swrebellion irc chat room for the 10th Anniversary Rebellion party and the Reloaded Release party... hope to see you there! Bring your own chair.

According to George Lucas... "Lucas is currently preparing "Indiana Jones 4" with Harrison Ford, Blanchett and Shia LaBoeuf. The latter plays Ford's son, which means his mother was possibly the character Karen Allen played in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." "I can't say," Lucas said when I brought up Allen. Lucas says that Sean Connery still hasn't signed on, but his character, Indy's dad, is in the script. Other than that, his lips are sealed. "Steven thinks we can keep the whole thing a secret," Lucas told me. "I explained to him that it's impossible nowadays. We can't live like that." So then, tell me more about "Indy 4," I suggested. "Oh no," replied Lucas with a smile. Lucas told me he has seen all the summer movies since his company, Industrial Light and Magic, does most of the special effects. The only one they didn't work on was "Spider-Man 3." What did he think of it? "It's silly. It's a silly movie," he said. "There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there?" Well, it's not "Star Wars." "People thought 'Star Wars' was silly, too," he added, with a wink. "But it wasn't." Lucas, by the way, says he is readying "Clone Wars," an animated series for TV that's derived from "Star Wars." Many "Star Wars" characters appear in "Clone Wars," but voiced by other actors. And here's a little news: Lucas tells me he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said. "They will be other people of that milieu." The two extra films will also be made for TV and probably be an hour long each. But, like "Clone Wars," Lucas doesn't know where on TV they will land. Hello, HBO and Showtime. It may be time to pony up." *** Spider Man 3 sillier than Revenge of the Sith?*** *** Death of two franchises... Star Wars and Indy Jones to be beaten to within an inch of death...*** http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270874,00.html

Inserts randomness comment here... So, I was just about to read swrebellion for the first time in a week when my new pitbull pup (6.5 weeks) started jet streaming foaming diarrhea from his butt, he was standing on the puppy pad but it flew out of his ass with such velocity that the first inch or two landed on the carpet... lovely... all I could do was shake my head and tell him "good boy" since he had been on the pad. Bleach and paper towels, ya! Now my eyes burn! ... and my nose.

Well damn... now the games never going to get done!?! Brings over a case of cold beer and has a seat next to mask.

Difference is, it's legal for me to shoot the dog.

Smartass... But no... there is a relation between all the numbers in the above word problem. It is solvable.

I imagine from orbit, we must look like a galactic dump. Thousands of various satellites in orbit whether in use or not. A nice brown smog stains popping up everywhere. I can see why the little gray men haven't stopped by since Roswell. Of course, the vast conspiracy by the Vatican to cover the existence of any such foreign intelligent life form which may or may not resemble mankind and thus, not be in the image of God. Muslim terrorists would be building spacecraft to deliver suicide bombers to the foreign infidels. What can of worms have I started here? On second thought, it was not so long ago that the Earth was flat. Then we figured out we could sail around it. We stole the continents from the Native Americans and the Aztecs. We then enslaved the Africans and dragged them over to toil the fields on our newly stolen property. It's a galactic property race!

http://www.swrebellion.com/rebedwiki/index.php/Multiplayer_Connection_Options I created a rebellion wiki page for this topic earlier in the month. If you guys have updates, please edit. Hopefully, the wiki will get more traffic eventually and these threads eventually die and fall off the front page of the forum.

I would like to think that I have contributed my $0.02 to each discussion on the forum and if Evaders had a nickel for every time I've made that claim I might have been darn near a JFK silver half $ by now. Guess I'll have to pony up the other $24.51 through paypal now to contend with the noob. Welcome to the site. ... Riddler's Riddle ... Solve the equation above and I'll through in an extra $5

Yeah... maybe you would like make mandatory spay and neuter laws upon the U.S.? Got a solution to make my neighbor give a crap about the livelihood of his dog?

Emperor Bush has ordered the construction of a death star to finally solve the War in Iraq! Imagine the Democrats reaction if he could pull a win like that out of the loss column. Remember though... we don't want to ignite the precious. Instead we need a giant suction device. Thus, I will cue up Mega Maid! from SpaceBalls! That way we can extract the precious and then withdraw our troops and be done with the place.

Creative content despite the slant.

No idea, check their forums. From what I read, it works on Vista, but is not officially supported on Vista yet.

So following the same philosophy, you could justify the Bush troop surge in Iraq. In Rebellion, if a planet is in uprising and requires 6 garrisons to keep peace, in order to quite the uprising, you must first double the garrison requirement. Once 12 garrison units arrive, uprising is put down. You can then pull the troops out but must be careful to leave at least 6 garrison or risk slipping back into uprising. Of course, you must account for terrorist attacks or inadequate maintenance points (Congressional backlash against troop funding) which could slip those numbers below 6 garrisons. What to rethink this?

More guns may equate more shootings but not necessary humans. Example, redneck neighbors dogs chase our horses through pasture. I warn them to keep their dogs restrained and away from my horses. They shrug it off, I see their dogs chasing my horse again the next day. Shotgun shot to the air, dog runs off but comes back a few minutes later. Next shot, in his direction, stupid dog still doesn't get the point. Next shot, at the dog. Thus, I now have to dig a hole and bury the damn thing. Not my fault! Neighbor didn't give a crap about his dog so I just did what was necessary. Same with guns. -------------------------------------------------------------- This is the more typical overreaction in process: Essay arrest baffles experts "Police Thursday released portions of an essay used to charge a Cary-Grove High School student with disorderly conduct, leaving several experts puzzled at an arrest based on such schoolwork. Asked to write about whatever he wanted in a creative writing class, would-be Marine and honors student Allen Lee, 18, described a violent dream in which he shot people and then "had sex with the dead bodies.'' " Another asain kid turns in another bizarre creative writing assignment. It's used as the basis for his arrest. This is the downside to the VT shootings, not gun control.

Found: The New Earth "It's got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. Above a calm, dark ocean, a huge, bloated red sun rises in the sky - a full ten times the size of our Sun as seen from Earth. Small waves lap at a sandy shore and on the beach, something stirs... This is the scene - or may be the scene - on what is possibly the most extraordinary world to have been discovered by astronomers: the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System." http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/planet2_468x194.jpg http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/planet_468x457.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Only 20 Lightyears away! Amazing! I hope we can find a way to get a space craft or probe there within my lifetime. Also, further down the article... "Of the 220 or so exoplanets found to date, most have either been too big, made of gas rather than solid material, far too hot, or far too cold for life to survive." I didn't know we had identified so many planets outside of our own solar system already, awesome work astronomers! More tidbits... "There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy alone and many astronomers believe most of these stars have planets. The fact that almost as soon as we have built a telescope capable of detecting small, earth-like worlds, one turns up right on our cosmic doorstep, shows that statistically, there are probably billions of earths out there. " ... I like statistics.

Yeah... this is why I do not do ebay anymore. I used to sell stuff quite often but I hate having the liability of mishandling or damage to a package. I was selling large items, performance bicycles and carbon fiber wheelsets. I mailed one package from GA to CA with a $400 carbon wheel via USPS and they destroyed the thing. It was USPS fault so I refunded the buyer his money but I took the loss. Most of my other sales went smoothly. If it's something not worth at least $200 to sale it's not worth the time or effort honestly. Then you get into total asshats like the guy you bought from, ebay has no way to determine or control these sellers and buyers have to be on the defensive.

No no... you misunderstand me. The scene was in the original screen release of The Empire Strikes Back. However, when the trilogy was released to VHS, George Lucas cut these scenes and others from the movie. I think this had to do with the length of movie and the available length of storage on VHS. As VHS technology progressed we began to see consumer tapes with 8hr capacity vs the original 6hr recoring at low quality. Because of the increases in VHS storage, when he optimized the film for THX film he reinserted these original scenes back into the film.