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It's no secret that Mac has been working with the Excalibur mesh recently... and now we know why! He has premiered a brand new episode of Mac's Lore which features an in-depth 15 minute look at the famed Excalibur heavy fighter. The Excalibur first appeared in Wing Commander III and has made several other cameos in later stories... but I'm stealing his thunder! Check it out:

Mac has also posted a great companion 'music video' to BlueSky showing off his rad scenes of Klavs' Excalibur model set to music instead of lore talk. There's something for everyone!

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Against all odds, Independence Day was still a good time! This week, we're going with another all-star blockbuster… but this one is from the swinging sixties! From Russia with Love (1963) is James Bond's second big screen adventure and one that established a lot of the lore and tropes that continue to be associated with the character to this day. You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

As large as Bond's cultural footprint is, our connection is a very minor one: Privateer 2 wingman Iuste Suttilis. Not his lore and history but the very distinctive picture included with his wingman bio! As you can see below, Suttilis is making Bond's famous pose in which he holds his Walther PPK pistol (here a beam pistol) across his chest. The pose originated with From Russia with Love's promotional photos, with photographer David Hurn capturing it. Suttilis' bio does seem to be based on the gun photo

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Longtime Wing Commander fan Sylvester recently revealed a pretty neat project: he has designed a new Star Trek starship and comissioned the great Howie Day to render it! But what's the Wing Commander connection? The ship is named Concordia, after Wing Commander II's TCS Concordia (CVN-65).

Hello fellow Wingnuts! It's been a long time since I've posted but I've been lurking pretty consistently over the last few years.

In addition to being a huge Wing Commander fan I'm also a huge Star Trek fan. And one of our own community supermodelers, @Howard Day is also an excellent starship modeler.

I recently made a sketch for a science cruiser and commissioned Howie to model it for me. In honor of my favorite Wing Commander carrier, we named is the Concordia.

Wing Commander II's Concordia is one of three ships to carry the proud name; the others are the Concordia in Action Stations that fought the first battles of

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I don't think the Wing Commander movie club can formally recommend The Song of Roland in any way… but I'm not sorry I watched it! As we noted at the beginning, the entire experience had the feeling of being shown a movie in 7th grade social studies because the teacher is out sick. It was impressively made and felt a bit like a 1970s Game of Thrones… but it was also very slow and relied on an understanding of medieval history shorthand that the average American does not have.

The big connection to Wing Commander is that the Song of Roland was one of the pieces of medieval literature that inspired Paladin to take up arms for the Confederation. The implication is also that Roland inspired Mr. Taggart's callsign, as he was one of the original Paladins. So at the risk of sounding like a true idiot, we should pause and ask: what's a Paladin? Well, that's one thing the Wing Commander movie was right about:

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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 Independence Day (1996) 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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Sometimes you just luck into a sheet of game elements that looks great arranged together. Case in point: these two collections showing all the commodities in Privateer and Privateer 2: The Darkening. The commodity art is actually a pretty special part of the Wing Commander universe because it's this ever-so-brief look at what everyday life is like outside the war scenarios we spend most of our time seeing. And boy is it some great science fiction world building art in miniature, from sexy cyborgs to alien livestock to household serv-bots to the most unlikely future technology of all... new Origin games. Can you name them all? And which is your very favorite?