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The Wing Commander movie club has successfully landed Air Force One! Or maybe we crashed it into the sea. This week's movie will be one everyone knows of but rarely takes the time to watch: THX-1138 (1971). THX 1138 was the first feature film directed by George Lucas who would go on to create Star Wars… so it should already be obvious why it would be of interest to a bunch of Wing Commander fans! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

While it's obviously going to be interesting to see the connection to something so important to Wing Commander as Star Wars, the reason for choosing the movie is a simple in-game reference: one of the characters in Special Operations 2 is credited as Mandarin #1138. This is in keeping with a long tradition of films, especially Lucas' Star Wars ones, hiding the number in various places.

Who is Mandarin #1138? She is the barely-visible character heard

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We introduced you to Tyrel Lohr last month, an artist who has been recreating early Wing Commander ships and offering them for 3D printing through Cults. Now they're hard at work on not just one but two Kamekh-class corvettes!

A Kilrathi Kamekh Corvette from WingCommander WC2. It's not a perfect rendition, but it captures the essence of the original. It's intended to be printed at about 25mm long, which is why some details get exaggerated. The forward nose fins and wings may need to be thicker to make them print better

And here's a quick version of the Privateer Kamekh II WingCommander. Again, a pretty basic model with chunky details, because it's going to be 3dprinted at around 20-25mm, so you have to exaggerate the details quite a bit to make it readable as a gaming miniature.

Some more #3dprinting prototypes... Unfortunately, part of my build plate failed due to temperature issues (65 degrees F, which

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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