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X-COM 1: What happened to my stunned commander?

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From: fake.a... Spencer Lu
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:00
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Hi,
 
I was just robbed of a stunned Sectoid Commander.  I was assaulting
an alien base, and this commander was actually roaming the hallways.
I know it was a commander because I used a Mind Probe on it.  Anyway,
one of my soldiers stunned it using a Small Launcher (it took 2 stun bombs
to do this).  After about 20-30 turns later, I finally killed the last alien 
in the
base, and my Skyranger returned home.  I clicked on the Research button,
and was shocked to see that "Sectoid Commander" was NOT in the list
of new projects.  What happened to him?  I know for a fact that he did
not wake up and walk away, because after each turn I looked at where
he was stunned, and his body was still lying there.
 
My questions are:
- Is there a limit on the number of aliens you can have in one alien
  containment unit?
- Do stunned aliens die after a long while?
 
 
Also, is there a bug with saving a game during battle?  I've tried this
3 times now, and 2 of those times the game crashed.  Actually the
game didn't literally crash, some big garbage text scrolled by and 
then the game said "Alien base still intact..."  I'm running this game
under genuine MS-DOS (not Win95 or OS/2 or anything).
 
Thanks for any help.
 
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Spencer Lu
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