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1992 can't come soon enough!

Also the name that would be used for United Earth, in Star Trek Enterprise!

I took the first two pages everything and ran it through an OCR, then used my (bad) Japanese knowledge to correct typos. Surprisingly there doesn't seem to have been a lot of them, though see previous sentence. Hopefully a fluent proofreader and translator can be found. Some interesting points...

This is awesome news! BRender was also used for I-War, so it has spaceship ramifications even beyond us. Really interested in seeing where this leads. I-War had a Glide mode, so maybe we could even see hacked-in 3D acceleration?

But wasn't that his own idea in the first place?

I think the more interesting question is about the status of the Border Worlds Militia during the war. The novel makes reference to a number of things like the Outer Worlds Fleet (was it formed during or after the war?) and the Senate intro seems to accept the existence of the Militia as an...

That looks really good! I don't know the technical details of Tabletop Simulator rendering, but they really make those models sparkle. The Gilgamesh was always one of my favorite designs, so it's nice to see it for once!

Damn, that's pretty. Even if it's made out of bits of other bits, that doesn't make it any less impressive.

The aesthetics and gameplay are pretty clearly a direct copy of Escape Velocity Nova. That was one of my favorite games of twenty years ago, and for years I always wondered why nobody ever followed up on it. But then this came out, and I barely played it past the tutorial. Oh well.

Has anyone given any thought to enhancing the actual in-game assets? I found this mod for I-War 2, and it's kind of amazing how much detail you can get.

It makes you wonder why they removed it in the first place. Eh, is this really true? I was 13 when I joined the CIC, and I'd been playing the games since I was six. I don't think I'm some weird outlier, a lot of people play the games as kids and have fond memories of them which probably is why...

I'm glad to hear about the Lightnings! I was wondering about them the other day, they're an iconic bit of cold war aviation history but a lot of that is disappearing. I wonder what will eventually happen to the Rapier. I guess it'll stay together for now, but how long will it? And should it...

Fortunately there's one Wing Commander game with completely self-contained lore: (Do we really not have a better original cover scan than that? The Mobygames one is much nicer)

Except that... we do? There's been a lot written about it in the last year, look at the citations for the wikipedia page and take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy

Well, the upside to making a Wing Commander as opposed to a Star Wars game is that you could bring back Mark Hamill's character fairly painlessly. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator

That's great! The Chirichan Demon model from the P2 model archive has a broken first LOD, so it's great to finally have a working one.

"Can it bring back the lives that were lost?" "No. But to make the planet whole again... maybe there is a chance...."

What exactly is the convergence on the Bearcat's guns?

Do these actually exist anywhere? The only place I've found that deals with internal values are this save game editor and that explicitly states it doesn't work with weapons values. Other than that I think HCl was the only one to work with the game data and that was a decade ago.

This post and the other update were right next to one about 3D printed ships, which made me wonder – has anyone gotten someone to sign a 3D print? There's probably some technical bits to making sure the ink holds, you'd need something big enough to sign and if you sent a Hornet or Excalbur to...