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The Wing Commander movie club agrees that Hard Target is a joyful and wonderful thing. It wasn't anything like I, a person largely unfamiliar with this kind of action movie, expected. I expected something stylish and clinical, a proto-Matrix perhaps… and instead it was a joyous, though stylistically distinct, celebration of over-the-top garbage. The kind of movie that makes you remember how wonderful it is that such unusual kinds of movies can exist. From the opening with a violent bow and arrow attack to Wilford Brimley immolating one of Lance Henrickson's goons with an exploding moonshine still it's exactly the movie you need it to be. Excelsior!

The name of the place… is Ba… Hard Target.

The big connection to Wing Commander is a tough one to quantify. The Wing Commander III team repeatedly expressed their love of "two-fisted John Woo" films, so watching it helped us get into their shoes while they

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This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Kagemusha (1980) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time! Please note that this is one hour before the normal movie time!

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The Distant Worlds 3 logistics fleet has completed the first build phase of a new deep-space outpost in the Roefoo ZE-H d10-0 system at the edge of the Mare Somnium region.
Established using construction materials stocked earlier this year, the facility has been informally named "Rainbow's End."
The station is intended to support long-range exploration operations and scientific analysis across the sparsely charted sectors of the galactic northeast.
Hermine Delarue, Operations Executive for Deep Space Surveys, has issued an appeal to the galactic exploration community:
"Rainbow's End is designed to act as a remote research hub for explorers far beyond established survey routes. To maximise its effectiveness, we need fresh stellar cartographic data to seed the station's modelling systems. We have already picked up many fascinating scans and more data will help us clarify what we are dealing

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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!