This one is a request from a challenge thread on the Relic boards which has since been lost, so whoever asked for this, raise your hand. It's the normal blue-sphere-o'-death death, but with that nifty shockwave that's been popular since Star Trek VI and physically impractical forever.

Instructions

The ZIP file should be unzipped into homeworld\etg\ Put this paragraph in place of the fighter death section of r1.script.

[Nifty Shockwave]
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,damage,destbeamwshockwave.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,projectile,destbeamwshockwave.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,beam, destbeamwshockwave.ebg