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Collateral Damage Sharpens Its Blade
JasonRocZ recently spent quite a bit of time revising his Rapier Vanguard and has produced an impressive Rapier Blade. The new textures included here emphasize the stabilizers on the forward fuselage to bridge the Wing Commander I and Super Wing Commander designs slightly. This popular Wing Commander Arena ship will appear in his upcoming Collateral Damage mod for WC Secret Ops. Jason is also hard at work on a variety of Nephilim ships with updated textures.
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Star*Soldier Gloss: Page 39
This is the Star*Soldier gloss for the Crusader page:
CONCEPT: Most Origin games included this type of in-joke, if not in their manuals then in the games themselves. Voices of War advertised the Bioforge movie, Victory Streak had a review of System Shock, etc. I should note that these were in-jokes - no one meant for all Origin games to have a shared continuity.
The background is a heavily filtered version of (part of) the Crusader: No Remorse artwork. This page was originally a quarter-sized advertisement which was blown up to a full page because the concept deserved better. There's also a hilarious 'early sketch' placeholder of this where I drew the Crusader dude freehand in MS Paint somewhere...
- "Digital Holovid" - Per the Kilrathi Saga manual, this was the name of the production company that made the movie of 'A Treacherous Hero'.
- "true story" - Okay, despite what I just said, a bone for those single-continuity guys. This actually refers to the fact that the Secret Ops' fiction established that the WEC was a former Earth government in the Wing Commander continuity. Way-back-when, Captain Johnny (who wrote that fiction) noted that the only thing preventing the two games from taking place in the same world was Crusader's use of teleportation.
- "Aaron Dunbar" - The Wing Commander fan who was (at the time) working on a movie edit of Wing Commander IV's FMV footage.
- "No Mercy" - No Mercy was a cancelled Crusader sequel. Supposedly would have been more of an FPS - blah.
- "Ultraviolence" - Clockwork Orange.
- "Keenan Weaver" - The Crusader fan who runs 'Echo Sector', that communit's equivalent of the CIC.
- "Morgana Carr" - The actress daughter of Saranya Carr from Claw Marks, as introduced in the Secret Ops fiction.
- "Clint Mason" - Star of 'Hail SHODAN', the System Shock reference in Victory Streak.
- "Allen Amikov" - Star of 'Dangerous Angels', a holovid mentioned in Voices of War.
- "Aaron Henton" - Musician who's "techno-industrial discordance" album was reviewed in Victory Streak.
- "Tristan Roberts" - The Chris Roberts alter-ego, a famous director from the Wing Commander I & II Ultimate Strategy Guide.
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