- "I had gone to MIT and spent thirty years designing firearms on the most advanced CAD programs in the solar system, and there were twenty others like me there, but we all got our butts kicked by a hobbyist whose day job was selling barbeque."
- ―Michael Ankenbrandt after seeing Jonathan LaForce's pulse rifle demonstration (from Episode 22)
Michael Ankenbrandt was a designer working for Daihotai Engineering. Representing Daihotai at a weapon test firing, Ankenbrandt was among several who witnessed Jonathan LaForce's successful demonstration of the M41A Pulse Rifle.