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#Wingnut movie night returns this evening on Discord! We will continue the ongoing theme of movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST, but feel free to drop by and hang with us any time!

And join us tomorrow as well where we plan to bring back the WC Cartoon Party!

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Mac has followed up his Excalibur work with some new renders of the entire Confederation fleet! He's posted the first one widely and others are available on his Patreon. Sounds worthwhile!

Omar over on the Patreon requested some renders of the Terran Confederation Fleet based on what I did for the Excalibur video, and I was like "Bruh, say no more".

So here's the first. The rest are on the Patreon but I'll upload them here soon enough. (post)

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The initiative to support Colonia's tenth anniversary celebrations has been met with partial success according to organisers.
The large fleet of cargo megaships provided by Brewer Corporation stationed in Facece have been loaded and their long trip to Colonia has begun, transporting the commodities and rare goods supplied.
"The response from pilots across the core systems to our call for assistance has been appreciated," said Magen Wolfe, speaking on behalf of Colonia Council.
"We're still on track to make this anniversary celebration a success for the region."
Meanwhile Jaques, via a holovid message to Vox Galactica, joked "Well, well. With the smaller number of rare goods about to hit the market it looks like my Quinentian Still will remain the favourite rare commodity in Colonia!"
With the megaship fleet now on their way, the Council is expected to issue a further call for assistance from

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Last month, in honor of the World Cup, we posted about soccer references in the Wing Commander universe. Damage Report was paying attention and they pointed out that there's another one in the Privateer 2 mission we wrote about: Jurgon Finsman is a play on former German player and manaager Jürgen Klinsmann. Klinsmann would've been playing for Bayern Munich when Privateer 2 was being made, winning the 1995–96 UEFA Cup that year! (This may seem like a small update but I love learning about European references I'm missing in Privateer 2's extensive text and wanted to make sure this one was preserved for posterity.)

Another slight soccer connection is that one of Chris Roberts' first professional projects was the 1985 BBC Micro conversion of soccer game Match Day. Pretty green!

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There's some very sad news from artist David Mattingly: he has updated his substack with an article about how at age 70 he is no longer able to paint the way he once did. Mr. Mattingly is probably best known as the artist behind the distinct book covers for the Animorphs and Honor Harrington novel serieses. His work is full of intense detail and bursts of movement that make for science fiction scenes like no one else is capable of. Wing Commander fans best know him as the artist who painted the glorious cover of End Run.

As Colonel Blair internal monologues, it's tough getting old… and the world is poorer for not getting more of Mr. Mattingly's work. Wing Commander fans everywhere would be well advised that he offers incredibly high quality prints of all of his work including is beloved End Run cover. I own one and the detail and the quality of the print is outstanding. You can show your support and

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The movie club friends voted to postpone last week's outing, so we've tentative rescheduled Raiders of the Lost Ark to July 24. You can read about the film's WC connection here. Stay tuned to the news this Friday morning for confirmation that the party's still on!