The Old Testament

Years ago, we scanned a copy of what has been referred to as the Wing Commander "series bible" (here, PDF) It's a massive document that records all sorts of information about the Wing Commander series up through Wing Commander III. The copy we preserved came from the actual physical document that the Maverick team maintained and updated over time and which was rescued after the team was disbanded.

The core of this document was what might be called the Wing Commander licensing bible, a hundred page document put together just after the release of Special Operations 1 for the express purpose of being a reference for the writers of the Wing Commander novel series. Dr. Forstchen, for instance, was sent a copy of this initial document and used it for reference during the writing of End Run, Fleet Action and so on. For anyone thinking about that material, it's valuable to have a copy of the original bible so you know exactly what was available to the tie-in writers.

To that end, here's exactly that (PDF) generated from the original digital files. It's a great resource for sourcing odd little mentions from the Baen novels; unlike the development team, they never received any update to this so it never covered Wing Commander III or IV. It's also interesting seeing the source documents that made up much of the lore included here, initially written during the making of Wing Commander II. Fascinating history!