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We've got a brand new guide! For the past couple of weeks we've been working on a massive overhaul of the WCPedia's mission guide for Privateer 2: The Darkening. Most Wing Commander games have between 40 and 60 scripted missions... but Privateer 2 has a whopping 167 divided between the main plot, the cinematic missions and then BBS and rotating SOS missions. And for the first time ever we played every single one of them. No one player is likely ever to play them all in one go... which is a shame because they often tell fascinating little stories through their e-mails and diary entries. Which you can now study! Each page now includes:

• Updated mission layouts that include things that weren't in the guide, like space stations, cargo pods and satellites.
• Screenshots of every single uniquely named ships.
• Transcripts and screenshots of every single piece of correspondence.
• Writeups of how the game assigns

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Starports damaged in recent attacks across the Lhou Mans system have been successfully repaired.
The stations bore the brunt of a recent rise in extreme and organised criminal activity allegedly led by the notorious pirate figure known only as Lady Zi.
A joint exercise between system security forces and independent pilots drove hostile forces from Lhou Mans and allowed for the safe evacuation of passengers stranded on the damaged stations before repair efforts could begin.
Following the successful delivery of commodities needed to complete the repairs, system authorities have now confirmed that Dashiell Port, Sabine Gateway, Ryman Enterprise and Webb City are fully operational, with normal services now resuming.
No further sightings of Lady Zi's pirate fleet have been reported in the system and surrounding areas leaving many to question where they could strike next.

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What's in the box? Why, it's crammed full of DOS! That's right, the DOSBox Staging team has released a new version of their wonderful tool that keeps so many of us playing classic DOS games today. 0.83.0 sounds like a huge improvement. Some of these features, quoted below from their release notes, will have a huge impact on how you play Wing Commander. In particular, full SC-55 emulation will be a boon to anyone playing Privateer, Armada or Wing Commander III with MIDI music… and a built-in FMV deinterlacer sure seems like magic!

• 100% authentic Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 emulation via Nuked-SC55. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we’ve bagged this long-coveted trophy of DOS gaming! I really couldn’t tell the difference between our emulation and the hardware SC-55 unit sitting on my desk during extensive A/B tests!
• Authentic CRT colour emulation to take another big step towards faithfully emulating those

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Sad news today: beloved actor Tom Kane has passed away at age 64. Mr. Kane performed endless voice roles, ranging from the beloved to the obscure before his career was tragically cut short by a stroke in 2020. He's best known today for his extensive work in Star Wars' expanded universe, including playing Yoda on The Clone Wars.

But before he ever visited a galaxy far, faraway, he spent a little time in our pocket of the universe. He voiced doomed Grikath pilot Grilg in Wing Commander Academy's "On Both Your Houses". The episode's plot has Blair, Maniac and Archer pursuing Grilg after he ejects over the planet Greenhouse... only to find that the scientists there have infected him with a biological agent hoping he will return to the Empire and spread it among the Kilrathi population. Archer faces off against him in the final dogfight and must make a very difficult choice.

We would like to extend the Wing

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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Jaques Station's historic jump that eventually led to the founding of Colonia.
Following a successful community drive to supply the Orbis starport with fuel the week before, the station departed for its intended journey to Beagle Point. However, due to Thargoid sensor interference, it emerged from hyperspace in the Eol Prou RS-T d3-94 system. This system later became known as Colonia.
Jaques, the cyborg bartender and owner of the starport, recalled that event with Vox Galactica:
"I remember that day so vividly! A wildly ambitious endeavour at the time, too. It's hard to imagine ever doing that again."
"Ten years later and Jaques Station is still open, still serving drinks and still selling my famous Jaques Quinentian Still to potent potable enthusiasts. Most importantly, Colonia is thriving. It's high time we celebrated this, I'd say!"
When pressed for

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FLASH! As you may imagine, we loved Flash Gordon (especially Brian Blessed!) and now have the theme stuck deeply in our brains. Happy birthday, bob! This week, voting is back and everyone was hoping to finally choose Terminator... but we didn't and instead John Woo somehow won the poll for what returning director we'd like to see. So this week we'll be watching his Chinese-era masterpiece Hard Boiled (1992) which was surely a favorite of the Wing Commander III team! You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

After greatly enjoying Hard Target, John Woo's American debut, we were interested in seeing one of his earlier Chinese movies. When we watched that movie, we talked about how John Woo was referenced repeatedly in Wing Commander III's quotes file. "Two-Fisted John Woo Action" is specifically cited in the list of the team's inspiration and programmer Chris Todd's section shouts out to