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I made a terrible discovery while looking through our archive: we have not updated on the incredible Privateer 2 artwork of Jayden Morris (ArtStation) in years and they have recreated at least two truly incredible ships in that time. We reported on their stunning remake of the Anhur landing...

StarfleetDesign is a prolific and talented illustrator known for recreating obscure Star Trek-related graphics... and sometimes imagining new ones! That's exactly what happened here, with a Wing Commander-styled take on the Star Trek logo. Star Trek / Wing Commander Mashup Logo (ArtStation)...

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Nice, thank you! I think the idea is that the part at the bottom is for civilian ships and the part at the top is the military base. The 1992 art list specifies that "the Perry hangar for private ships is a completely separate berth for each ship" which is distinct from the military area which...

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club found the Search for Spock worth the effort! It sometimes feels like Star Trek III gets a bad rap just to fit together the 'even good, odd bad' Star Trek movie joke. The reality is that it only ever falters at the very end with a final ten...

Spock has been found – and guess what, he regenerated and lived his whole life and happened to end up exactly as old as he was the first time. What luck! In all seriousness, we loved Star Trek III and talked a lot about how important it was in setting up the next twenty years of Star Trek...

At the very least it's not Ellen Guon's intent since the last time we see Hassa she's preparing to fight Imperial soldiers. It could be Zukara, though--it would make sense for her to be in charge of the ceremony at Firekka.

Two others we see: - The priestess from the "Sivar's Glory" TCG card - https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/images/WCTCG_Luck_Sivar%27s_Blessing.png - The nude Kilrathi female from the temple carvings in the Prophecy intro - the art is out there but it isn't safe for work! There are a few other...

Last month, we posted some cool Hornet art by ulimann644 on DeviantArt. At the time we wondered what they were going to do next… and now we know, one of my favorite Wing Commander ship designs of all time: the original Fralthi! Fralthi-class Carrier (DeviantArt[/url]) Ulimann644 also...

Yes, the blocker was not anything with the game engine but the fact that the Lexington's design needed to be locked down earlier than most ships in oder to design and build the sets. They'd settled on a reuse of the Victory before the first batch of storyboards were delivered in February '95...

Here's a piece of fan art I never expected to see: a chibi version of the Kilrathi priestess from Secret Missions 2 by DeKreteOne on DeviantArt! More of this kind of fun, please! Here's her original appearance from 1991: -- Original update published on July 13, 2025

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club has traveled to distant galaxies and lived through some of the most deadly warfare in human history… and now we can add surviving high school in Los Angeles to our list of accomplishments! Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a movie that never quite...

The boring answer is that it's balance, the Retros (in the base game anyway) are supposed to be the easiest opponents. (Remember they're supposed to be a joke until their new leader unifies them in Righteous Fire.) In universe, I guess you could come up with any number of stories! Maybe they...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement...

That makes sense, you're hearing the differing gun types fire: mass drivers for the pirates and lasers for the retros (I guess you could watch for this, too!).

Also worth remembering that the Wing Commander community in 1996 blamed the change in engine for absolutely everything. Remember they were certain the Concorrdia wasn't in Wing Commander IV because the game couldn't display the model? There was absolutely no basis for any of this other than 'the...

Wing Commander author Dr. William Forstchen has found quite an audience with his most recent writing, the "One Second After" series. The books tell the story of the aftermath of a horrific EMP attack which renders modern technology useless and they've become very in vogue among "preppers" who...

The original Wing Commander I engine was special because it displayed ships as a collection of individual, pre-rendered sprites instead of as 3D meshes. That let the artists display ships that seemed impossible in 1990… because instead of having the game creating them on the fly, it was choosing...

That's a really interesting thought, I never noticed! I would use the video VDU (v) and determine based on their markings. It took a bit to learn the difference between pirates and militia!

Andrew lived to see the book published and to get to know that people really enjoyed it! That was a great time in the community, he used to visit #wingnut to talk about it. Just a really nice guy, and whip smart. You are probably remembering that Baen put the wrong name on the book cover when...