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It's an especially Happy Halloween this year for CIC founder Bandit (LOAF) who finally found the Cinema Secrets Kilrathi mask after nearly 20 years of searching! When the WC Movie

collectible

was originally

released

back in early 1999, LOAF said, "...very cool, I can't wait to get mine" and now it's finally here! He's still looking for a set of shoulder armor, so if you have a lead, drop him a line!

LOOK WHO I FOUND! I have been searching for ‘Kilrathi mask’ on eBay for at least 15 years. A few weeks ago I decided to try and learn more about the company that made them. One eBay search for just the company name later and...

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Hailing all Captains! We are pleased to announce a sale on Lifetime Subscriptions from now November 1st at 8am PT to December 6th at 10am PT, bringing the price down by $100 to $199.99! Now is the perfect time to pick up a Lifetime Subscription to STO! Enjoy all the rewards that come with being a Lifetime Subscriber. With exclusive species unlocks like playable Talaxian Species, instant access to all Lifetime Rewards, to Priority Login, there are dozens of reasons to become a lifetime subscriber today! You will even get 500 ZEN a month to spend on all the new gear and ships that come out in Star Trek Online. For more information on all the great rewards that come with being a subscriber, check out our blog here. For information on how to claim and use your Lifetime Rewards, click here. Retail inclusion effective September 23, 2010. Lifetime subscription covers your subscription fee for as long

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Arena of Sompek Event: Resolved an issue that could cause enemies to not spawn in the Arena. Existing versions of the "Collect Arena of Sompek Event Rewards" (Sompek Pulsewave) Event Reputation Project will now have their requirements set to 1 "Merit of Sompek". This will auto-complete the project for anyone that already has progress recorded. Resolved a typo in the Arena of Sompek description that stated the Event was only for levels 50 – 60. Now refers to levels 50 – 65. General: All Mission Transwarps have been set to no longer have an Energy Credit fee associated with them. Resolved an issue which caused the Prototype Light Exploration Cruiser to be unavailable to some characters. Resolved an issue which occasionally caused waves of Klingons to not spawn in “Defense of Starbase One”. Missions handoffs for "Cold War," "Spectres," and "The Lost Dominion" now

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Explore the process of mission design and the development of combat AI as our behind-the-scenes mission walk-through continues.

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Hello Everyone!

Thank you so much for the positive response to The Abyss update for No Man’s Sky, released only a few days ago. We’ve really enjoyed seeing players experiment with the new base parts, explore the enhanced aquatic environments in the Nautilon submarine, and share their close encounters with fearsome underwater predators.

The team here is keeping up the pace this week with another update, patching up a few issues and introducing the next Community Research mission.

Community Research Update

This week, Priest Entity Nada is reaching out to explorers for assistance with Polo’s research missions. Their Gek friend, rattled by the events revisited by the time-altering device, has fallen into an introspective mood, and appears to have withdrawn from the project. Nada intends to act fast to overcome this – with help from their traveller friends across the galaxies.

Nada requests that explorers travel to a

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The engineer Ram Tah has rejected an offer from the Sirius Corporation to support the manufacture of Guardian-human technology.

In a public statement, he said:

"These technologies, developed using principles discovered by the Guardians, are too important to become corporate products. I have no doubt that Sirius would aim for maximum profits, rather than using the knowledge to aid humanity."

"Using tech brokers to distribute the designs allows them to be widely available, and thanks to the generosity of Aegis, the tech brokers' costs have been reduced, making Guardian-human fighters and systems more affordable."

Li Yong-Rui, CEO of Sirius Corporation, has stated that his offer remains open, and that he hopes Ram Tah will have a change of heart.

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DefianceIndustries

continues to round out his WC1 fleet with two sharp new additions. The Raptor that was previewed

last month

has been completed, and it looks great. The fighter's colors are spot on and there are plenty of gorgeous little details like 'TCS Tiger's Claw' stenciled into the side. As a bonus, the Hornet is also finished. All the compliments for the Raptor apply here as well, and both ships are also posed at some wonderful angles. Many people have modeled the Hornet over the years, but we can always use more beautiful ships!

My WC1 addiction continues... I revised the Raptor, the old hull panels were kinda crappy so these look better. For additional fun and frolic, I made new unit insignia because... well I have too much free time?Also, a Hornet! Because the Killer Bees always get the next shift.Enjoy!

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Technical Director Sean Tracy and Character Art Director Josh Herman answer questions following their panels at CitizenCon 2948.

To watch Reverse the Verse LIVE each and every week, tune into Twitch.

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The Federal Security Service has abruptly terminated its investigation of The Mars Tribune regarding personal administration robots fitted with hidden surveillance programs.

Although interviews with Tribune employees were underway, it has been alleged that a senior figure in the FSS ordered the task force to focus elsewhere.

The Tribune's owner, billionaire Kingsley Cordova, stated:

"I'm pleased that our innocence has been accepted, and I'm confident that the guilty parties will soon be found."

An opinion piece in The Federal Times from chief editor Lena Ravenhill took an alternative view, however:

"Last week, Cordova suggested the spy robots could share the many secrets they've gathered, and suddenly the FSS is ordered to leave The Mars Tribune alone. Does anyone really think this is coincidence? How many powerful people are frightened of what Cordova might reveal about them?"

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Here are this week's major stories.

The investigation into the death of Alliance presidential candidate Fazia Silva has concluded with no convictions. Alliance Interpol confirmed that Silva's death was a homicide, but said that all avenues of investigation had been exhausted. Tashmira Silva has now assumed control of her late sister's corporate empire.

A radical group called Nova Imperium is gaining influence throughout the Empire. The organisation claims that to survive the Thargoid conflict, the Empire must sever contact with all other systems and concentrate on protecting itself. Many traditionalist citizens, unhappy with recent cross-superpower cooperation, have embraced the group's rhetoric.

Meanwhile, the engineer Ram Tah has rejected an offer from the Sirius Corporation to support the manufacture of Guardian-human technology. In a statement, Ram Tah said the technologies were too

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Mass Effect is experiencing a dry spell of titles as of late, with 2016’s ‘Andromeda‘ being the last we’ve seen from the mainline game series. Even longer we’ve been apart from former player character Commander Shepard, having last seen the hero meet their ultimate conclusion in the final battle of Mass Effect 3.

However, it now appears the galaxy-spanning patron of alien booty has resurfaced in the form of some seriously spot-on cosplay. The creative crafter over at Cecilosaurus Cosplay has unveiled a lovely Female Shepard cosplay, sporting a solid recreation of the soldier’s iconic N7 armor. Seen below, we also take sight of a stealthy M-92 Mantis, the rifle also looking as though it’s stepped straight out of the games.

Première photo du shooting d'hier ! Je l'adore ! ? j'ai hâte de voir les autres ! En plus c'était en duo avec un autre…

Posted by Cecilosaurus Cosplay on Sunday, October 21, 2018

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Artist Mike Winterbauer's Wing Commander

Art Portfolio

campaign came to a successful conclusion this week. The project collected $3,986 from Wingnuts who are passionate about classic WC art. Mr. Winterbauer will now go on to produce his behind-the-scenes look at painting the SNES Wing Commander box as well as create a variety of very cool collectible displays. We can't wait to see them in person! Here he is with the mockups!

WOW! The last 24 hours of the Wing Commander Art Portfolio were amazing!

The campaign really picked up and we ended up being almost 800 percent funded!

Thank you all for your awesome support and I look forward to getting the rewards out as soon as possible! Thanks!!

Mike

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Today we have a new poll that asks which game engines you're most excited about on the modding scene. Fan Projects have been reaching back further than ever lately and doing some

truly

amazing

things with classic Wing Commander game engines. There's a lot of ways you can group these, so we went with the general way that projects have been getting managed lately. Yes, technically Privateer is a spinoff of the original WC1/2 engine, and technically Armada is a prototype of the RealSpace engine popularized by Wing Commanders 3 and 4, but we usually see projects sorted out by the options as we have them depicted here. And while I would absolutely love to see SWC or Arena on this list, due to platform limitations, there's very little action going on with these at this time. Hopefully talented Wingnuts can change this in the future though!

Our annual birthday poll showed similar, yet still impressive,

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Spacedock

is back with a new video on the top five carriers of all science fiction. Wing Commander manages to snag TWO of the slots with the Bengal class strike carrier at #3 and Vesuvius heavy carrier at #1. As we've previously mentioned, Daniel from Spacedock covers a wide array of sci-fi content on his channel and happens to be very well versed in the WC franchise. For this reason, we get a real thorough discussion on the merits of these two models compared with other WC favorites like the Yorktown or Midway as well as other series' efforts. His videos have really surged in popularity over the past year or two, and this clip is currently over 84,000 views on its way to 100K+ likely soon. That's a lot of folks out there learning about the finer points of WC lore!

Spacedock breaks down five sci-fi carrier designs.

There's also a handful of

merchandise

items you can get based on the subjects that

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Every week, designers, engineers and other developers from our five offices around the world answer backer questions submitted on SPECTRUM and voted on by YOU.

You can submit your questions for consideration in future episodes of Calling All Devs here.

And for info on becoming a subscriber, go to: Subscriptions - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

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Hello everyone,

Last week, we celebrated All Hallows’ Eve across our studios and crowned the winners of our two Halloween themed community contests. Check out the winners of the Pumpkin Carving Contest, and the FOIP Contest, highlighting the most terrifying or terrified expressions.

We welcomed more filmmakers to the annals of Star Citizen cinematic history with our Mustang Commercial Contest. Check out the work of the bold community filmmakers who embraced the maverick spirit of Consolidated Outland to create commercials that Silas Koerner himself would be proud of.

If you haven’t yet, you can also read up on Anvil’s latest bruiser, the Valkyrie. The Q&A on the recently revealed troop/personnel transport ship answers the top-voted community questions.

And with that, let’s see what’s going on this week:

Today we’re re-releasing September’s Squadron 42 Monthly Report as a Comm-Link.

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Squadron 42 Monthly Report: September 2018

This is a cross-post of the report that was recently sent out via the monthly Squadron 42 newsletter. We’re publishing this a second time as a Comm-Link to make it easier for the community to reference back to, and plan on following this process for future Squadron 42 Monthly Reports.

As the development of Squadron 42 thunders on, the brain trust at UEE Naval High Command has retooled their dispatches.

We aim to bring you the most significant and comprehensive project updates available. However, particularly sensitive details will remain under wraps to avoid unnecessary leaks to the civilian community.

Read on for a look into the work done on Squadron 42 during September and keep a weather eye open on this channel for future briefings.

CitizenCon 2948 saw the first look at the latest Squadron 42 trailer. If you missed it, or want to check it out again,

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In honor of the United States of America's very important midterm elections, we've attempted to create a document that can serve as a guide to future Wing Commander storytellers, one that tells us just about everything we can possibly know about the politics of the Terran Confederation. Note that this is a first draft which will be expanded as more references are discovered! Find one we missed? Add it in the comments for the next revision! A cited version of the document is available here. Want even more Confederation government lore? Tune in to an informal livestream tonight at around 7 PM Eastern to see LOAF and Dundradal talk through this document and the historical parallels involved in the Confederation's backstory! (A link will be provided in the comments when the stream is live.)

We Create Worlds... Piecemeal!

One of the most interesting (and perhaps least useful) pursuits of fandom is the

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The Battle at the Binary Stars is one of the most important historic battles between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Every cadet studies it at Starfleet Academy, though it has been purely in a historical context until now. The threat of temporally-displaced rogue Klingon starships, led by the legendary J’Ula, has brought a need for understanding 23rd century battle tactics to the attention of Alliance admiralties. The Battle at the Binary Stars is the first Featured Task Force Operation in Star Trek Online. Five Alliance captains will be able to take on the roles of Federation ships at the battle, in a new holodeck simulation crafted specifically for the Alliance’s mutual understanding and betterment. During this simulation, your ship will take on the appearance of a Federation ship from the Discovery era, although you will retain your powers, bridge officers, and trays – it is only a

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BioWare’s Mass Effect Andromeda was arguably the biggest video game letdown since Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky, with the former’s launch issues effectively crippling the title’s reception before it could really take off. That aside, Andromeda – and Mass Effect – still has a dedicated fan base, one that is looking forward to what will hopefully be a triumphant return of the series once BioWare wraps up development on Anthem. Now, with N7 day arriving tomorrow, it has been discovered that Mass Effect Andromeda is now listed as an Xbox One X Enhanced title.

The news comes by way of the folks over at Windows Central, which discovered that Mass Effect Andromeda had been placed on the list of Xbox One X Enhanced games. For those unaware, being an Xbox One X Enhanced game means that the base title has been improved upon both graphically and performance-wise. The listing – which can be found on the Windows Store