Display MoreWhile working with Privateer 2, I've found a couple of small-but-interesting unused game assets still present in the release version. The first are two VDU images for what seem to be bases that aren't present in the game. It's likely that these were additional mission-specific spacelabs because they're stored right before and after Spacelab 1 and Spacelab 2.
One of these stations looks a lot like a relative of the Kiowan pirate clan's Kastagan station (which is present elsewhere and has a unique VDU) while the other reminds me a little bit of NASA's Skylab space station... which further suggests the dropped spacelab theory.
While researching these, I also came across this sheet of pre-release VDU images from an earlier build which is pretty fascinaitng. You can see earlier versions of several of the ships (presumably the first ones build) and the placeholder for the fregihters is very different from any of the final transports! It's also very interesting that they organize the ships internally using their designations instead of their names.
Finally, I noticed that while the game has twelve different icons for missions that appear on the Bulletin Board only eleven of them are actually used! The additional mission type looks to be for base attacks, something that don't ever appear in the game. Maybe you were originally supposed to be able to attack the unused bases seen above!
