Making the Game - Part 78 (July 22, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

Nitpickers rejoice! This document has everything you ever needed to know about the Nephilim fighters... and it's remarkable how much data exists! Why did the team develop lengths, masses and other 'fictional' data which was never published? Note the older names for the capital ships, like the Osprey carrier and the Leatherback transport.

Bible 08 - Alien Ships
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Date: Unknown
Project: Wing Commander Prophecy
Donated By: Billy Cain
Pages: 44

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Original update published on July 22, 2008

 

[Vinman]

I'd never heard about alien repair drones before, were these dropped early on? They sound like they'd be frustrating, but it would be neat if you had to coordinate attacks to do damage to all sections as quickly as possible to hamper repairs.

Also, flying turrets sound cool, I wonder why they were dropped.

I wonder what the kilrathi mining base was for...

 

[Wedge009]

I remember the Narwhal and Marlin names from in-game labels which had been left over from the original naming scheme. I thought I had seen Osprey too somewhere, but maybe not.

As for not publishing the ship statistics, I suspect the idea was to maintain the aura of mystery surrounding this new enemy. After all, it is not as if the Confederation had access to all the information on Kilrathi ships at the onset of the war either. Perhaps Origin would have used these figures as a starting point for fiction in subsequent games in the Prophecy line.

 

[Delance]

Most interesting. The Bug Carrier has good shields and thin armor. Like a Rapier.