Hee.

There was a guy at WPI named Schletzberger, whose username on the (eight-letter limit) Encore was schletz. After some consideration, we decided that was the sound it makes when a redshirt gets vaporized on Star Trek, as well, as the verb describing the occurrence ("did you see that guy get schletzed?").

In fact, now that I think about it, I believe Schletz appears in UF Core 3, getting schletzed by Yuri on her way out of the SDF-17. There are a number of patently gratuitous deaths in early UF, almost all of them of people whom the authors found a bit irritating IRL (except for Fritz Koopman's, which was, strangely enough, requested by Fritz himself). In hindsight, it was all rather juvenile and unkind of us. :)

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