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We may not be able to prevent sickness, death, horror, war, etc. anymore... but we sure can make a useful robot for removing copyrighted material from YouTube. And the one Universal Studios uses to go after Wing Commander Academy material on YouTube seems to be top notch! It has removed all evidence of the Arabic dub's theme song... so we've posted a copy locally for you to enjoy:

• Wing Commander Academy Intro - Arabic (8 MB)

A translation of the lyrics for the Arabic theme:

Fly Soar
Like an eagle
Growl Roar.. Decimate evil
Fly Soar
You are the toughest
Quenched your thirst from the fountain of courage
The enemy of virtue ..a bully
Tyrannical catastrophic malicious unjustly
Clear sky is now bloody
Maneuver aim
Incinerate the enemy
Roar Growl
So our sky is clear again
Fly

Meanwhile, Universal's brilliant technology also managed to prevent Americans from seeing the promotional copy of the Wing Commander Academy in HD

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It's all Greek to me! Christopher Nolan's movie adaptation of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey is due out this summer next month and the usual assortment of culture war idiots are already raising a fuss about… something? But for us Wing Commander geniuses, it's an opportunity to remember who else was a fan of the story… Christopher Blair! If you look carefully at his introductory scene in the Wing Commander movie you can see that the book he's reading is, indeed, The Odyssey:

Or at least he was a fan of the first six books. It's not totally clear in the movie itself but his copy is actually hollowed out to allow him to hide his Pilgrim Cross. Here's an image of the prop itself from the frontispiece of The Confederation Handbook where you can see exactly where the book ends. So while he seems to be reading the book in the movie he's not going to make it past Athena influencing Nausicaa to aid Odysseus. (If

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Ram Tah has confirmed the existence of previous mention of what appears to be Radicoida unica in the Guardian Archives.
In a statement issued to Leon Banerjee, science correspondent for Vox Galactica, he revealed that in the weeks since the discovery of the rare flora, he has been re-examining Archive data in the hope it would elicit more information about the plant's past origins.
Ram Tah referenced archive passages describing a "kingdom of blessed roots," alongside accounts of a substance derived from seed pods used by Guardian factions that rejected advanced technology.
"These traditionalist groups appear to have utilised a naturally occurring compound to enhance their warriors prior to battle during their civil wars," he explained.
"While much of the context remains unclear, the descriptions are striking."
Additionally, accompanying diagrams within the recovered data include biological

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Shocking news: GOG is running another sale on the Wing Commander series, plus Ultima and some other related games. This time around it's called the "Feeling Old Yet Promo" and it'll net you fifty percent off any number of perfect classics. You want to buy another copy of Privateer for your friend or cousin or roommate? I'm telling you, you do! LOAF, show us The Grid:

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Hard Boiled was certainly a treat... but this week, the Wing Commander movie club is going in a very different direction. That's right, we're off to see the wizard with a screening of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz! And the night should be exactly as corny as this prose (no Dark Side of the Moon needed). You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

The initial Wing Commander connection here is slight: Wing Commander Armada names a star system after Oz creator L. Frank Baum. Or perhaps an entire star system isn't so slight! That puts him in the company of creators like George Lucas and Akira Kurosawa. The Baum system is one of a handful of special systems in Armada that the game reserves only for the randomly generated Armada-mode matches and so it doesn't appear in a set location in any of the Campaign-mode maps. Which makes it a bit hard to find or remember! Luckily, we've got a

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Everyone's favorite future historian is back! Mac recently started working with TrueSKY 3 and has been putting the tool through its paces with some wonderful renders of Wing Commander ships over the past few weeks. The first set of four, posted to his BlueSky are a religious experience; don't they look amazing all lined up?!

And he followed up that stunning collection with some pretty intense Excalibur renderings. I think I echo the entire community's sentiments when I say... more please! More, more, more!