What does the Alien Energy Converter do?
From a game-play point of view it allows you to complete “Habe Quiddam” successfully. If you don’t pick it up you can’t get off the level. The Alien Energy Converter is never used after “Habe Quiddam” nor is it needed to complete any later levels as the Command-Option Begin New Game function easily demonstrates. From a story point of view the Alien Energy Converter is supposed to allow you to kill more Pfhor. Durandal says at the beginning of “Habe Quiddam”: You should go to this location and retrieve a device that the S’pht have provided for us. It will allow you to slay more Pfhor. Does that make you happy? After we retrieve the device Durandal tells us that we will soon be going further afield. The ultimate destination is of course the Pfhor scoutship. We might assume from this that the Alien Energy Converter is needed while we are on the Pfhor ship. Some people have speculated that the Converter would be needed to interface with the alien shield rechargers and/or pattern buffers. E
