I have no idea how I got it. I think it must be one of those things you get if you put an ability point to Luck when you create a custom race. I had a point left over when creating my custom race, read the description about random tech discoveries and put it on there.
Anyway, I get large hulls and go to create a new warship. When I get in the ship designer I notice that there is this awesome weapon waiting for me, but I don't recall see any pop-ups to tell me about it or maybe I just missed it. Here's the specs:
Nano Ripper
Class: Gun
Size: 9
Cost: 120 (that's not a typo)
Damage: 8
So I took the large hull, threw on a couple warp drives, some sensors and 3 Nano Rippers. Good times were had by all, excepting my enemies of course.
Anyone else see this in there games? Now I'm wondering what other goodies have the GC team planted. I bet there's at least one for each type of offense and defense. I wonder if there's a Super-Huge hull tech. That would be awesome.
Now that I think about, could this be part of the Collectors Edition stuff. Either way, I was pretty pleased with it.
