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Lost_Hawk has a cool surprise for everyone: they've been working on their own rearrangements of the MIDI tracks from the original Wing Commander! I'm no expert, but the end result seems pretty wonderful. Here's the full story and the two tracks Lost_Hawk has kindly shared. We're certainly hoping to hear more!

Hi everyone,

My name is Ulli (Lost_Hawk), I'm 45 years old and I'm writing to you from Germany. I’ve been a huge fan of the Wing Commander universe for a long time. Aside from the “Privateer” games, I've played and loved all the “Wing Commander” games, so that recently, I decided to start a personal passion project.

I am a hobbyist/amateur composer who creates music on the PC, working within the limits of my home setup in my free time. For this project, my goal was to take the freely available original MIDI files from Wing Commander 1 and rearrange them.

I tried to stay as true to the original

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Today's previously scheduled Wing Commander Cartoon Party will be delayed until next Saturday. We'll now be watching four episodes of Babylon 5 and discussing their unique connections to the Wing Commander universe together on July 25. If you cleared your schedule to spend your morning with us, you're still more than welcome to drop by our Discord channel!

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The Wing Commander movie club found that From Russia with Love held our attention! It's interesting seeing Bond that feels so much slower and less like a vehicle for getting from action set piece to action set piece… but at the same time, you can see the modern formula for a James Bond movie starting to form this early.

Here's our very simple Wing Commander connection, a Privateer 2 wingman who is mirroring Bond's raised gun pose! That pose, which would be repeated endlessly over the years, was first captured in the PR photography session for this movie. The unusual length of the gun isn't a silencer, it's actually an airgun that had to be used when Bond's signature Walter PPK was unavailable for the shoot.

Bob also noticed that two ships in Privateer 2's registry have Bond's famous "license to kill.": H643 345D and X465 435E. Bond introduced the term in his first novel, Casino Royale, and it would

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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 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 any time!

And don't forget our twelfth Wing Commander Cartoon party is early tomorrow!

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There's some fun news about the upcoming fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds today. Trek Central reports that Wing Commander veteran Saffron Burrows will play a character named Cassel. Burrows played Angel in the Wing Commander movie, delighting all. We'll let you know when her episode airs!

That got me thinking: what other actors have appeared in both Wing Commander and Star Trek? Here's the list of the ones we came up with! First up, the easy one: everyone knows that Malcolm McDowell played Admiral Tolwyn in Wing Commanders III, IV and Academy and that he played Captain Kirk's killer, Dr. Soran, in Star Trek: Generations.

The 'other' Admiral Tolwyn was a Star Trek regular, too. David Warner played Rhinehart in Privateer 2 and Admiral Tolwyn in the 1999 Wing Commander movie. In Star Trek, he was kidnapped Federation ambassador St. John Talbot in Star Trek V, the doomed Klingon Chancellor

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Colonia is hosting a tenth anniversary celebration of its founding, beginning with a supply initiative located at where its historic story began.
A fleet of cargo megaships provided by Brewer Corporation has arrived at Facece to support a massive logistics operation to transport commodities and rare goods from across the core system to Colonia.
"Facece is the system where my story began," remarked Jaques in an interview with Vox Galactica. "What better way to start the celebrations than to launch them from the very same system!"
Colonia Council member Magen Wolf lauded the campaign, adding:
"This huge effort will allow us to create a showcase for Colonia and its history and boost the economies of Colonia and surrounding systems with the potential to establish a megamarket."
Councillor Giselle Kingspear noted that "it's worth mentioning that we have eight Engineers established throughout the