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What ever happened to Starfield? When Bethesda launched their own take on Star Citizen with the option to build out your own ships we figured we'd be seeing endless attempts to recreate Wing Commander's classic designs... but in reality they've been few and far between. It's too bad, we could all use more space games! But the good news is that a Reddit user named succesmetric has finally put together a pretty solid Starfield take on the classic Dralthi.

The Orchid was sitting in my fleet unused — it was just too ugly to fly. I wasn’t a fan of the cartoonish look. But aside from the obvious Batwing reference, it did look very familiar in another way: the huge wings reminded me of the iconic Dralthi from the Wing Commander series. So, I turned it into one. 😃 Hope you like it!

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We were very impressed with Hard Boiled! It's a magnificent film that's defined half by its incredible, stylistic, over the top action sequences and half by its stunning attention to detail in production. It was very interesting comparing it to Hard Target to see both the impact of Hollywood on director John Woo but also for a fast lesson in learning his visual language. But outside of all that talk it was just supremely thrilling and fun… and it pushed that to a limit you wouldn't believe. The climax that's set at a doomed hospital was spectacular!

The ostensible Wing Commander connection was that Wing Commander III's wild lines (the voices over the public announcement system on the Victory) include a shoutout to star chow Yun-fat, who plays hero cop Inspector Tequila Yuen. He's certainly an impressive actor and it's very easy to see why this movie in particular would've made him a favorite of the

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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 The Wizard of Oz (1939) 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!

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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