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Hi, marko river! Great thanks for attention to this theme.

So this game was supposed to be the third installment in Rebel Moon series?

Yes, that’s right. But instead of two previous RM-games it was planned with absolutely another gameplay - as a tactical 3D-shooter with voice recognition commands and very powerful AI. Unfortunately, AI-core was not fully finished, but 3D-animation, 8 levels and graph engine were almost completed in the game - The War in Heaven. In 2012 I find strongly unfinished demo of Rebel Moon Revolution. In 2014 I managed to launch levels from this demo on The War in Heaven engine. It’s works!

Is the first game anywhere to be found?

Yes, off course. The first game was Rebel Moon (1995) – very similar to Rebel Moon Rising. Rebel Moon Rising was the second game in RM-series. In 2010 I and my friend Vladimir 777 (Old-Games.Ru) we ported DOS-version of Rebel Moon on the Rebel Moon Rising Windows-engine. Now you can free download it from here:
http://www.old-games.ru/game/download/3206.html
"Oбраз (cue/bin) Windows-версии с инсталлятором и аудиотреками (конвертированы из оригинальных *.WAV). Имеется возможность установки русской версии игры."
English Win-version of Rebel Moon also present there on the disc image.

In March 2015 I took an interview with Vox Day (Theodore Beale). He is producer of all Rebel Moon games (Fenris Wolf team). You can see English text of the interview under CUT-tag in the beginning of article.
http://www.old-games.ru/articles/65447.html

Thanks.
WERTA, 2015/09/11