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To the Wing Commander Combat Information Center's 21st birthday celebration! TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern US (4:00 PM Pacific and 11:00 PM GMT) in #Wingnut - now on Discord! BONUS: A special episode of All Wings Considered will precede the formal party! We expect this to start at 4:00 PM Eastern US (1:00 PM Pacific and 8:00 PM GMT) - please tune in!

Featuring...

• Amazing updates from virtually all of your favorite fan projects!
• LIVE in your face, the biggest gathering of CIC Staff for a streaming event!
• Alcohol, because now we're legal in all CIC jurisdictions!
• Lots of fellow fans chiming in through text and audio!
• The return to flexible customizability!
• Twenty-fifth anniversary revelry for Wing Commander 3!
• Trivia - from Grathas to Ghellen lan Dorv!
• Cake... and more!

So point your browser to

Discord

, channel

#WingNut

! It works easily on the web or via mobile app.

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To the Wing Commander Combat Information Center's 22nd birthday celebration! TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern US (4:00 PM Pacific and 11:00 PM GMT) in #Wingnut on Discord!

Featuring...

• Thirtieth anniversary revelry for the Wing Commander series!
• Major updates for your favorite fan projects!
• Exciting new project announcements!
• Amazing sights and sounds to behold!
• New ways to play old favorites!
• Long-buried treasure finally revealed!
• Responsible social distancing!
• Trivia - from the Confederation Oath of Service to the Wingman's Creed
• Cake... and more!

So point your browser to Discord, channel #WingNut! It works easily on the web or via mobile app. See you there!

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To the Wing Commander Combat Information Center's 23rd birthday celebration! TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern US (4:00 PM Pacific and 11:00 PM GMT) in #Wingnut on Discord!

Featuring...

• Lots of ships that don't exist!
• Some ships that sort of exist!
• Real-life never before seen giveaways!
• The latest and greatest hardware!
• Making the most of our second year in self isolation!
• Trivia - from Ayer's Rock to Zarmaks!
• Cake... and more!

So point your browser to Discord, channel #WingNut! You can stop by any time to join the fun!

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To the Wing Commander Combat Information Center's 24th birthday celebration! TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern US (4:00 PM Pacific and 11:00 PM GMT) in #Wingnut on Discord!

Featuring...

• Explosive antics!
• A long-awaited experience!
• Songs you've longed to hear!
• Your dream come true!
• Strategies and tactics!
• Clarity
• Refreshment(s)
• Cake?! ...and more!

So join us in Discord, channel #WingNut! You can stop by any time to join the fun!

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To the Wing Commander Combat Information Center's 25th birthday celebration! TONIGHT at 7:00 PM Eastern US (4:00 PM Pacific and 11:00 PM GMT). Help us ring in a quarter century with fellow fans in #Wingnut on Discord!

Featuring...

• A long-anticipated return!
• Reams and reams of new material for the archive!
• Deleted scenes!
• Aural delights!
• Photographic wonders!
• Fan project updates!
• All new prizes!
• Cake... and more!

So join us in Discord, channel #WingNut! You can stop by any time to join the fun!

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Alright it's 1 AM and there's no action on Twitter so you're pretty much stuck with this post about the news mechanic that was from Wing Commander III. That's right, I've got... BARBARA MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP!

If you've played Wing Commander III you may remember Barbara Miles from the intro, where Mark Hamill's Colonel Blair watches a news story about doomsday evacuations on an enormous iPad. Now that's what I call a bezel!

The script for this is neat and doesn't mention 2001: BLAIR IS SEATED AND LOOKING AT A SMALL “NEWS-SCREEN” (SIMILAR TO A SUBNOTEBOOK OR PDA) ON HIS LAP OR IMBEDDED IN THE SEAT IN FRONT OF HIM. (THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF HAVING BEEN GIVEN A NEWSPAPER BY A FLIGHT ATTENDANT.)

This brief bit is a fun example of how folks writing novelization add themselves to a script. The scene plays the news story straight but Andrew Keith adds an inner monologue where Blair thinks the idea is

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Check out this awesome Seahawk model that LOAF recently got 3D printed. The CIC staff love things like this, but none of us have the hardware or technical knowledge to make these ourselves. Fortunately, that's where the cottage industry of make-to-order prints comes in! Some sources can seem kind of sketchy, but LOAF found this one on Etsy (3Dwitha4Kface) and the results are solid. They also make a Dralthi, Scimitar, Kamrani Corvette, Centurion and Tiger's Claw in sizes from 1 inch to 12 inches. If you pick one up, keep in mind that some gluing and assembly may be required!

I got a huge Seahawk from Etsy’s Black Friday sale.

The SR-51 Seahawk Airborne Early Warning/Airborne Warning and Control Ship aka the SWACS.

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This week I learned that there was a fully localized South Korean release of Wing Commander 3! Which means you’re all going to have the option to play WC3 in Korean soon. French, German and Japanese are well documented but this one stayed hidden until now. Here's a quick sample!

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The GamesBay has posted a bit from Prophecy Advance, and that's really got us thinking about this incredible game. We don't share enough about this pocket treasure, so I'm happy to repost it here.

It's definitely Wing Commander, complete with all its strength and flaws. The difference here is that instead of FMVs, you get text. A lot of text. And you don't have the option of a flight stick. That might be a dealbreaker for some.

While there is not a flight stick that you can just plug into the Gameboy Advance, you CAN play Prophecy on the Gameboy Player attachment for the Nintendo GameCube and then plug a GameCube flight stick into that! I'll also mention again that Apple has recently started allowing emulators and iPhones and iPads, and you can connect a flight stick or game controller to these devices when emulating your Wing Commander games.

It's Prophecy that really caught my eye, but GamesBay also

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Wild Aces

has cut together a nifty tribute to the Wing Commander series in the Star Citizen engine. It features a variety of spaceflight, atmospheric and pilot sequences set to the main soundtrack theme from the Wing Commander Movie. Good stuff!

Star Citizen 3.2.2

Musik from Wing Commander Soundtrackby Kevin Kiner & David Arnold

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It's hard to capture a nice still, but Zathras' ship looks a LOT like Grandpa Mack's Tarsus. Someone on Compuserv pointed that out in 1996 and J. Michael Straczynski replied that he hadn’t played Privateer!

The new Wing Commander he’s referring to would have been Wing Commander IV which had come out in February. If he ever got to play he’d have found that he and Chris Roberts had similar tastes when casting space fighter pilots!