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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.

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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

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At last report, Tyrel Lohr had expanded their lineup of 3D print-ready Wing Commander ships to add the mighty Kilrathi Hakaga. Now we're happy to report that many of the models shown in earlier updates are now available for purchase on Tyrel's Cults Store. You can find listings for both Confederation and Kilrathi ships and as you've seen in earlier updates they look wonderful printed. Many are free and the rest are all extremely affordable at between $1 and $4! There's also a Patreon that gives access to models before they're listed in the store.

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This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut event happening on Discord this morning! Join us at noon EST/9 AM PST for a fun filled morning of television... that all connect to Wing Commander somehow! This month we're looking at a series of shows across three decades that are referenced in... Wing Commander Armada! You can find details on the shows included as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. Be sure to download the episodes so they're ready to play with the group!

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With a grand 'happy birthday Comchia!' we enjoyed a screening of George Lucas' American Graffiti last week and the response was... that it's a pretty good and surprisingly forgotten movie. It's very interesting seeing how THX 1138 and American Graffiti lead to Star Wars in wildly different (and often unexpected) ways. And it was very interesting seeing what helped form the core of what our parents think of nostalgia, even if it's a little bit alien for us. And I'm very eager to see how this one comares with the similarly themed but radically different The Deer Hunter, which is coming up someday in this series.

As we said in the introduction, we added this movie to the canon because George Lucas was one of several directors who had a star system named after them on the Wing Commander Universe map. A region of the map centered in the Enigma Sector has about two dozen systems named after science fiction