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Laser and Squad
* Laser Squad Nemesis is a 2002 turn-based low-budget PC turn-based tactics game developed by Gollop's new company, Codo Technologies, very similar to the Battlescape ground combat system of the first X-COM game.
* Rebelstar series: precursor games to both Laser Squad and the X-COM series, also created by the same developers.
Examples of Amiga games using digitized instrument samples include David Whittaker's soundtrack for Shadow of the Beast, Chris Hülsbeck's soundtrack for Turrican 2 and Matt Furniss's tunes for Laser Squad.
The game was based heavily, and unofficially, on the Alien films, specificially Aliens, and also on the 8-bit-era games Laser Squad and Paradroid ( although the game bears some gameplay similarities with Gauntlet, with which it has been compared, as well an obvious comparison with Sega's Alien Syndrome ).
Originally planned by Julian Gollop as a sequel to Target Games ' 1988 Laser Squad, the game mixes real-time management simulation with turn-based tactics.
Laser is one of Time Squad's best agents, and was voted most likely to become Time Squad commissioner by his graduating class.
Rebelstar ( 1984 ) and Laser Squad ( 1988 ) were precursors to X-COM created by the same developer, Julian Gollop.
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics video game, originally released for the ZX Spectrum and later for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga and Atari ST and PC computers.
The influence of the game can be seen in other titles like the X-COM series, especially the acclaimed UFO: Enemy Unknown which was also created by Julian Gollop and was initially conceived as a sequel to Laser Squad.
Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy, by maneuvering the squad's team members around a map one at a time, taking actions such as move, turn, shoot, pick up and so on that would use up the unit's action points.
', stating that " Laser Squad is one of the hottest games I've ever played.
Rebelstar and Laser Squad are among the earliest examples of turn based unit level wargame video games.
Many of the Laser Squad mechanics were re-used in the later X-COM series of games, created also by Gollop and Mythos Games but published by MicroProse.
Some of the name choices for characters and organizations in the games of Mythos and Codo are a thread connecting all the Laser Squad and Rebelstar games.
Mythos Games later released a similar game called Lords of Chaos, which had many similarities to Laser Squad but was set in a fantasy genre of wizards, dragons and spell-casting.
The Laser Squad franchise has been revived by Gollop's Codo Technologies with the play-by-email game Laser Squad Nemesis, although this departs from the turn-based action point system and does not have customizable weaponry.
Image: ZX Laser Squad. png | ZX Spectrum
* Laser Squad Flash game

Laser and science
Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers.
Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a population inversion in laser media, and the temporal evolution of the light field in the laser.
Laser science predates the invention of the laser itself.
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Other MSFC-managed space science projects in the 1970s included the Laser Geodynamics Satellite ( LAGEOS ) and Gravity Probe A.
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Today the museum is composed of eight buildings, including two IMAX theaters ( one of only a few places in the world with more than one IMAX theater ), one of the world's largest Laser Dome theaters, a tropical butterfly house, a planetarium, and hundreds of hands-on science exhibits.
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