Lost Ship of the Day: Union Outpost (August 30, 2006)

[Bandit LOAF]

This is the final update in our series of lost ships. Special thanks to HCl for teaching us how to extract them! Wing Commander IV features a lot of bases -- in fact, it has more space stations than the original game had fighters. What it doesn't have is a Border Worlds base... even when you're ordered to rescue the biochemist from the Border Worlds, you do it by landing marines on a Confederation space lab. It looks like they had originally planned to rectify that, though -- with the Union of Border Worlds Outpost seen below.

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Original update published on August 30, 2006

 

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...even when you're ordered to rescue the biochemist from the Border Worlds, you do it by landing marines on a Confederation space lab. It looks like they had originally planned to rectify that, though -- with the Union of Border Worlds Outpost seen below.

You rescue the biochemist from the ground based installation on Tyr 7. The confed space lab is the mission where the marines are supposed to take it back from the Border Worlders that supposedly took it over. So maybe they felt that it elliminated questions about Confeds intentions if it was painted in confed colours. instead of perhaps having it been a UBW outpost from the get-go and having confed steal it but tell their pilots it was theirs to start with...

 

[Bandit LOAF]

D'oh - I'm thinking of the PSX version, which swaps the three ground bases for three spacelabs.