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I have never wanted less to write something in this space. Yesterday, we lost a bright star in our universe. Lacey Reid (née Lacey Kumanchik) passed away after the fiercest fight with cancer anyone could ever conceive of. To rip off the bandage, as awkward as it seems: Lacey was the beloved wife of our founder Chris Reid and the mother of their three beautiful children. She was an engineer and an author and the kind of deep, bright soul. She is someone you do not know but who came into our lives in a way that was so important to (among many greater things) this space right here. We will plan to tell you more about her life in the future but I'm going to go ahead and try to tell you the briefest story of how I knew her in the hopes that you might think of her today as dearly as I have and always will. I hope that it's clear that in this incredible pain there is also infinite recompense from how

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The group, comprising of Aisling Duval, Yuri Grom, Arissa Lavigny-Duval, Nakato Kaine, Edmund Mahon and Denton Patreus aligned forces, brings together representatives and affiliated factions to agree to an informal non-aggression pact. The agreement is described as intending to guarantee mutual support and reduce further escalation in the enclave. Pranav Antal's forces were notably missing from the announcement, with rumours circulating that Antal has not been included in the Pact following the two-week ceasefire.
Speaking to Vox Galactica, a spokesperson for the coalition claimed that it represents an independently organised group of pilots, arguing that coordinated restraint is necessary to try to avoid any further confrontation in the enclave.
However, political analysts have been quick to temper such claims.
Current assessments indicate that the majority of systems surrounding HIP 87621

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♬Who will be Fan Project of the Year?♬

Better late than ever! We've been spinning a few too many plates these past few months and we just haven't had time to do the 2025 Fan Project of the Year and Hall of Fame award contest yet. But we don't want to give up on the tradition, so we're kicking it off today!

As always, we are asking the community to highlight your favorite projects of the past year. It could be massive ongoing fan games, it could be fan art or music or it could be any of the incredible mods or utilities that WingNuts have put hard work into.

We will also be deciding the second ever Hall of Fame award. You can nominate projects or individual fans who have made a contribution to the community and the fandom over the year. Last year's winners were Klavs and HCl so whoever you nominate will have to be pretty impressive!

Please email your nominations to news@wcnews.com and check back next week

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Late last year, veteran Wing Commander actor Matthew Lillard made headlines after being insulted by director Quentin Tarantino. Movie lovers everywhere reacted with a surprising amount of anger to Tarantino's dismissal of the Maniac and Lillard was very open at the time about how much it hurt. Now he's back to thank the fans who supported him. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lillard took the time to appreciate everyone who had a kind word.

“It was like living through your own wake,” Lillard describes of all the tributes he received from his peers in the business on social media. “All those R.I.P. emails or tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, all of the things we see after somebody passes are so sweet. And the reality is I just got to live through all of it firsthand — alive and kicking! I can't imagine a more lovely reaction to what happened.”

“It was crazy. I keep showing it

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The Wing Commander movie club has traveled twenty minutes into the future to experience Max Headroom and... well, it was hard to see why this was such a big deal in 1984. This telemovie kicked off three separate televisions serieses and countless of ads and cameos for the character but it really feels like a 1980s Doctor Who or (complementary) a Privateer 2 cutscene. I also checked out the US version which retold this story as a 45 minute TV episode and found that although there was some more money spent on the sets it was pretty similar!

Max Headroom may not have been much of a movie but it helped us find some new Wing Commander history! You may recall that the big connection for our series was that the design pitch for the cancelled Privateer 3 listed Max Headroom as an influence on the game's world... which surely means that punk 1980s cyberpunk dystopia sense from the story's setting. But while

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This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Air Force One (1997) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!