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Internet art showcase DeviantArt is a great place to find awesome Wing Commander fan art... but it's also full of endless amounts of ridiculous nonsense. And today we're celebrating two recent ones! The first is by Nintendoman01 and it's a subject near and dear to my heart: a reimagining of the 'Warrior King' character whose story ended in Wing Commander Academy!

Herai, the Warrior King

My reimagining of the Warrior King, a lesser-known character from a big meta-project undertaken by the USA Network back in the 90s.

He, and a magic orb that sustains his world, appeared in four different shows the network aired: chronologically in this order, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Savage Dragon, and Wing Commander Academy.

As for his name, my buddies and I worked it out. Herai, since he's basically in the same vein as He-Man and Lion-O.

And the second one is a little more risque. But we do

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The Distant Worlds 3 expedition has confirmed that the main flotilla has successfully departed Beagle Point, the historic destination that marked the terminus of the original Distant Worlds journey.
Having reached this milestone, the expedition has now begun the next phase of its scientific programme across some of the least explored areas of the Milky Way: the Abyss, Acheron and Veils regions.
Chief expedition astronomer Lynda Amanda ter Holt is coordinating the effort in collaboration with expedition command teams across the fleet. Ter Holt explained:
"Beagle Point was never the final objective of this journey. Our goal is to collect high-resolution stellar data across regions that remain sparsely catalogued. Large numbers of expedition pilots can analyse stellar density and spectral distributions on a scale that would normally take decades. We continue to encourage our intrepid explorers to

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Japanese Wing Commander advertisements are a rare find... so we were pretty excited to come across this scan of one for the FM Towns port of Wing Commander II! Takashi Asada's Wing Commander II FM Towns cover art is stunning so it's great to see it again here. WC2 was a very late addition to the FM Towns lineup, not shipping until summer 1995. Despite its seemingly exotic nature in the United States, it was actually ported by Origin employees in Austin. The source code organized for this version was then used during the making of The Kilrathi Saga the next year!

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X-Toys was founded in 1998 by former McFarlane Toys SVP Robert LoMonaco. The company is best known for their launch product, a line of licensed action figures for the 1999 Wing Commander movie. Wing Commander fans know that they went on to release toys for Warner Brothers' Wild Wild West later that year and that they put out a wave of Saturday Night Live figures before fading away. I was surprised to learn that these were not their only toy lines; they also produced a series of figures for a younger audience licensed from Humungous Entertainment's famed edutainment IPs and two waves of elaborate Elvis figures intended for collectors! This post represents our attempt to produce a complete catalog of X-Toys' products for posterity. The company's final toys were released in 2000 and it had ceased operation by 2003. LoMonaco went on to serve as a marketing and sales consultant for Marx Toys and then as

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What began as admiration for a celebrity's physical transformation is now evolving into a broader cultural conversation across Allied space.
Media analysts tracking responses to "Big Bill" Ventura's viral fitness broadcasts have noted a surge in personal holovids and public discussion referencing improved energy levels, sharper focus, and better emotional wellbeing.
Notably, many of these claims come from individuals outside fitness or leisure circles, including educators, engineers, and deep space exploration pilots.
Sociologist Mara Chen of Orion University observed that the language used is unusually consistent:
"People aren't just talking about exercise. They're describing clarity, motivation, and resilience in similar terms, often without explaining why."
The trend has spread organically, with no single organisation or product being credited. While some commentators attribute the

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The Wing Commander movie club LOVED Hard Target. It's not a movie you can explain but it sure captivated us. For the next screening, we decided to revisit a previous director. And the winner of the vote was, improbably, Akira Kurosawa! (It is becoming a running joke on the Discord that RoboCop just barely loses every competition and this was the closest yet.) So following up on our previous viewing of Seven Samurai, we will be looking at the historical epic Kagemusha from later in his career. The movie, which tells the story of the ,1575 Battle of Nagashino, was famously saved by financing from George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, both of who were indebted to Kurosawa's influence on their own successful films! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along. Note that because of the length of the movie we will start one hour early (9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific).

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