<sect1><title>Photon Torpedoes</title>
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-Mnemonic: PHOTONS
-Shortest abbreviation: PHO
-Full commands: PHOTONS <NUMBER> <TARG1> <TARG2> <TARG3>
+Mnemonic: TORPEDO
+Shortest abbreviation: TO
+Full commands: TORPEDO <NUMBER> <TARG1> <TARG2> <TARG3>
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<para>Photon torpedoes are projectile weapons—you either hit what you aim
P PHASERS <TOTAL AMOUNT> phasers and computer
PHASERS AUTOMATIC <TOTAL AMOUNT> phasers, computer, sr sensors
PHASERS MANUAL <AMT1> <AMT2> ... phasers
- PHO PHOTONS <NUMBER> <TARGETS> torpedo tubes
+ TOR TORPEDO <NUMBER> <TARGETS> torpedo tubes
PL PLANETS (none)
PR PROBE <ARMED> <MANUAL> <DISPLACEMENT> probe launcher, radio
PROBE <ARMED> AUTOMATIC <DESTINATION> launcher, radio, computer
<appendix><title>Setting the Wayback Machine</title>
-<para>SSTK and its ancestors have a long history. One of the
+<para>SST2K and its ancestors have a long history. One of the
objectives of this project is to make that history available.
Accordingly, here is a timeline of the development of SST2K and
its ancestors, as closely as we can reconstruct it. Someday this
version to PDP-11 FORTRAN.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>21 September 1978 — This was the date on the
-first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his C
+first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
translation.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>1979 — Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes,
<listitem><para>1995-1996 — Tom Almy translates his FORTRAN
port to ANSI C.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>1997 — Tom Almy finds the sources for the UT
+<listitem><para>1997 — Tom Almy finds the sources for UT
FORTRAN on the Web and merges in features new since the 1978 version:
EMEXIT, Tholian Web, improved death ray. He adds deep-space probes
from the DECUS version.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>September 2006 — BSD features merged
in. Inhabited-worlds features and weighted critical hits date from
this time.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>9 October 2006 — Translation to
+Python.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>One as-yet unanswered question is when the code changed from