I am wondering how the Cosmic Combo Cards work with the expansions. Do the Combo cards include aliens from the expansions already? Will reprints of the expansions include Combo cards and/or remake of the player ships to match the new translucent look of the ones coming in the new core set. I plan on getting the new core set and all the expansions but I don't want to buy the expansions if they are going to be updated on the next printing. A separate expansion with just Combo cards and player sets would be nice.

No expansion aliens in the combo cards. I think it's unlikely we'll see any more combo cards- they are specifically designed to get new players into a game quickly. But, who knows- they might to a POD version of expansion combo cards.

So, does it sound to everyone else that the Tech will be gone from the new edition?

I doubt it.