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Unless the photos are of a Kilrathi base somewhere...

So... the United States Air National Guard used F-4 Phantoms while the United States Air Force used F-15s and F-16s, and A-10 Thunderbolt II's were also part of the inventory, but looked nothing like the F/A-18's and F-14's used by the Navy at the time that all six plane-types were deployed...

Hitch a... what... to a what? Are you even reading your own posts? If you think comets move at 58% the speed of light, then you've been smoking something strong and illegal.. and that's the minimum requirement for the antigrav 'beam' which would be necessary to accelerate the object you...

In WC, they seem to use a combination of static defenses to slow down enemy fleets or to allow for an 'early warning' system (like the planetary defense stations and listening outposts), and combine that with a number of highly mobile strikeforces which handle the heavy pounding, while smaller...

Given that shield technology exists, I suspect they could use heavily shielded ships, or ships that can project shields ahead of them to detonate mines before carriers and cruisers come through the point... among other things. As it's been noted here, static defenses don't tend to work too well...

There's also the fact that static defenses are relatively useless after a time - the Kilrathi had ships that acted as minesweepers going through jump points during fleet actions - that and the practice of having destroyers and corvettes jumping ahead would mean that the defenses would be...

Not EXACTLY - he just mathematically 'proved' that antigrav would let a mass accelerated to just over half-lightspeed to continue to travel at that or a faster rate without spending a lot of energy doing so. This doesn't mean travel at light speed is possible, much less practical - just that...

Even with post-humous promotions, a two-rank jump is pretty much unheard of, at least from what I recall. In this case, he MIGHT have gotten a jump up one rank, although all we know for certain is that he had a heck of a memorial service after Prophecy and during the period that Secret Ops started.

As other posts have indicated, Origin said they connected YEARS ago, on a forum which has since been lost to entropy but whose spiritual descendant is the one you're posting in. When the property creator says "this is part of the series' timeline", it's part of the series timeline. As far...

WC1 and 2 ships were, for the most part, either early War or pre-War vintage ships; it's like saying that a modern F-22 fighter should be painted the same green color and look similar to a WW2 Mustang - a similar timeframe has passed between WW2 and now as has gone by for the early Kilrathi War...

Um, INTERPLAY was the company that cancelled Fallout 3, along with the rumored Fallout: Tactics sequel, not Bethsoft - get mad at Interplay, not Bethesda Softworks. What happened afterward was, when Interplay declared bankruptcy, that Bethsoft bought the rights from Interplay to make a new...

When the system actually works as advertised, than it's not a waste of money. Right now... existing systems don't. The orbital lasers and flying lasers may work properly, but with the current flying laser systems, to have a hope of stopping an ICBM with MIRV warehead, you have to hit it pretty...

Isn't Age of Empires showing up for DS too, speaking of strategy games?

Hyperspace isn't real for us yet - it's a theory, according to that. They're still trying to figure out if the rest of his theory works, based on the particle mass calculations that were predicted by said physicist. Whether this means they'll actually do antigrav in our lifetimes, or if this...

Merry Christmas, for what it's worth.

And anyone who's not afraid of bad games created under a franchise, I have but two words: "Star Trek" :D It's not like EA hasn't been licensing WC stuff, as Chris noted - it's just they're picky about their property, and want to protect their investment.

Unfortunately... yes, they are. And I can't say I liked the furry part myself. :D

Fur and tacos do not mix. Enough said.

I wasn't sure if the post would be understood without the visual aids. I'll refrain from that in the future, however. Damn it, now y'all made me hungry for some Taco Bell.

Well, that was about as insightful an article on furrydom as Joshua's posts here were an intelligent and indepth discussion on Wing Commander tactics and technology. I really ought to do an article about the deviancy of Wing Commander fans and their Thrakath/Maverick slash obsessions here...