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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3371291" data-attributes="member: 109211">Not only that James, if you think back to Mike Jensen's rather 'corporate' explanation of Terra and Conquest a couple of year ago, he described Terra as a 'gateway' line.In other words, a line to introduce Zeiss bins to folks, and from Zeiss's point of view, give them a step on the ladder that leads to Conquest and ultimately Victory models.So Terra can be seen as much as an investment in future Conquest and Victory sales as much as anything, and if you consider the question of developing a top tier model like an SF32 you can see that it could make sense to do the Terra line first, in the expectation that having experienced Terra there will be more folks willing to buy an SF32 by the time it appears.This is all based on my recollection of Mike's comments at the time and one thing missing from this explanation is any consideration of other development projects that might be taking place as well.Lee</blockquote>