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It's time for a new poll, and today we're asking about the special Kilrathi fighters of Wing Commander 3. Wing Commander 2 expanded on the light/medium/heavy fighter concept with the introduction of Confederation bombers, but WC3 dramatically increased the scope and scale of the Kilrathi fighter fleet. In addition to the return of the Strakha stealth fighter and Bloodfang superheavy, the Paktahn bomber is added to compete with the Confed Longbow. There are also three unique specialty designs: the ominous Sorthak "fighter killer," the K'ha'haf asteroid camouflage design and a nifty atmospheric craft, the Ekapshi. We don't see a lot of these ships, but their existence goes a long way to fill out the world and drive home the point that we're just seeing a glimpse of vast complex universe. Which one of WC3's speciality fighters was your favorite?

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The old poll was there to gauge people's take on 2026.

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A development update for Freelancer Zero Hour showing off what we've done in April, with a very quick overview of the upcoming ship abilities system.

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Here's a round-a-bout story: we recently noticed that social media content movie site SlashFilm had posted an listicle called "Alternate Sci-Fi Villain Designs That Would've Blown Everyone Away" that included a segment about Chris Roberts' original plans for the Kilrathi in the Wing Commander movie:

Few remember 1996's "Wing Commander," a movie that bombed so badly it killed the gaming franchise that birthed it and dashed the nascent directorial career of its creator, Chris Roberts (who would later find success as a movie producer). The film suffered from questionable casting and a predictable plot, but one thing on which nearly everyone could agree is that the design of the film's villains, the Kilrathi, sucks asteroids.

In the games, the Kilrathi are giant catlike creatures, as furry as Chewbacca. In the film, they're mostly hairless and resemble trolls more than felines. Even the animatronic Kilrathi

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I was a little reluctant when the Wing Commander movie club picked Pulp Fiction as the week's movie. I know that most of my friends loved it but my memory was one of visceral disgust: the violence, the drug use, the language and so on. It turns out that my memory was wrong: while all of those things make up the movie, they also aren't anywhere near as seriously as I took them in high school in 1995. Pulp Fiction is an endlessly brought movie that has both a giant impact on popular culture and movie making and which is also just tremendously fun to watch.

In the introduction we talked all about how Adam Foshko was called the 'Quentin Tarantino' of interactive video in 1994 on Wing Commander III. Here's Tarantino's appearance in Pulp Fiction plus a shot from the Wing Commander Prophecy EPK of Adam Foshko talking about the game. Nice shirt!

Pulp Fiction also features very-soon-to-be Wing Commander actor

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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 Excalibur (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!

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PC Gamer was one of the most popular computer gaming magazines in the United States in the late 1990s, arriving just in time to catalog the multimedia gaming revolution. The first issue was May-June 1994 and it was appropriately chock full of Origin-related content... including, I was surprised to discover, a pair of fascinating uncataloged Wing Commander Armada pre-release screenshots!

• The ship selection screen is completely different from the one in the final game. The Kilrathi heavy fighters are not listed and the order of the fighters (seemingly indicating their classes) shown does not match the final game.
• The Dralthi model used here is the one from Wing Commander III rather than the one that would end up in Armada. That's because the Arrow and the Dralthi IV were the first Wing Commander III fighter models implemented and so they were present when Armada forked from that game.
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