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A friend of mine gave me a copy of End Run like almost six years ago. It was the first one that I had read of the Wing Commander books. And as people have said, I think that it is the best one. It was probably one of the major reasons that I got into reading and writing WC fiction as much as...

My favorite missions have to be each time that I blew the shit out of Thrakath, and the mission in SO 1 where it is you and Hobbes in Sabres flying against an entire Kat strike force defending Olympus Station in Ghorah Khar.

As with any type of Cap Ship, their strength lies for what they were designed to do as a part of a CARGRU or Squadron. In Confed, the Plunkett Cruiser has a great deal of firepower. This is because a cruiser is designed to destroy other CapShips. It also has a good amount of armor. The...

In Top Gun, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (played by Tom Cruise) fell in love with a civilian analyst, Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwell (played by Kelly McGillis) who worked with the Top Gun school to help evaluate the pilot's performance. In Hot Shots (a satire of Top Gun), Topper Harley (played by...

As far as I remember, this is how the progression of weapons vs. shields went. WC I - energy weapons could take out all shielding. WC II - Energy weapons could take out fighter shielding but Cap Ships phase shielding had advanced to where torps were needed. WC III - Energy weapons had...

It is true that you don't have to hold the rank of Captain in the navy to be called captain. Captain refers to any person who is in charge of a ship. Take for instance a destroyer. A destroyer can have a captain with as low of a rank as Lt. Commander. And a corvette normally has a captain...

I believe that the Kilrathi had skipper missiles before they had cloaked fighters. They that would place the skippers in the same time frame as the Tiger's Claw. But don't quote me on that.