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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...

Like most people, I constantly find myself needing to refer to the ship sprites from the original Wing Commander games. Four (or five, depending on how you count Super Wing Commander) different Wing Commander games used an engine called 3Space which stored ships not as 3D objects but as...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't quite live up to the highs of the franchise that followed but it was an interesting little movie… just one that fell short of the premise or its colorful cinematography. This week, we're returning to space with one more movie in 'part one' of our series: Star Trek...

Thirty years ago this month, Electronic Gaming Monthly pulished this short but interesting preview of the upcoming Wing Commander III 3DO. Wing Commander III 3DO had a playable build ready fairly early in development... but a lot of aspects changed before release, including a complete redo of...

Sort of! The games were typically made without any real thought to lore… it was the job of the creative services division, the folks that did the manuals and hint books, to come in at the end of the project and establish how it fit together.

It comes down to the fact that Wing Commander III has a completely different style of art for the ships. Chris Roberts asked his art director (a new role in the industry at the time) to develop a new, distinct style for both factions' ships. The Kilrathi got the whole 'asymmetrical knife edge'...

Origin did choose the Sabre to represent WC2 for the Kilrathi Saga intro! And Chris Roberts used it as the hero ship in the original movie script--got changed to Rapier in a later pass.