Frosty said:
I wonder if anyone is keeping track of how many times this has been brought up? This has gotta be the 900-kajillionth time some thread with this topic has sprouted up here.
Hey, that's sound like a boring, time-consuming project. I'll do it later!
No, I probably won't...
Wolfman said:
One: Skipper missiles BEFORE the Kilrathi made cloaking fighters!
To that I say: Wing Commander Movie Novelization, page 209: Paladin says, "It's a skipper missile. Must be a
prototype." To this, Commander Gerald replies, "That technology is years away from the Kilrathi." Also, in WC3, Eisen says something along the lines of, "The Kilrathi are developing a
new type of cloaked missile." This could mean there were earlier variations, such as the one seen in the movie. Now the only question this brings up is why Tolwyn was so reluctant to believe in cloaked fighters in WC2.
Wolfman also said:
Two: the Concordia ten years early.
The WC2 Concordia is the Confederation-class dreadnought, while the movie Concordia is the Concorida-class supercruiser, which is a little shorter than the WC2 Concordia (CHIEF WIGGUM: Stop saying "Concordia". MARGE: Will you stop saying saying "Concordia" so much?). And, as people have said, there have been many Concordias. Three, that I know of. The carrier destroyed at McAuliffe, the supercruiser from the movie, and the dreadnought from WC2.
Five: The Movie shouldn't be before the game as the Rapiers were test craft DURING WC1.
Yes, Rapiers were being tested during WC1. But those were the F-44s, not the CF-117 seen in the movie. These were made in 2545, over a hundred years before the movie takes place, so it would make sense that we'd see a new type of Rapier in WC1. Now, the only problem I can see with this is in Pilgrim Stars, where the F-44 is the old fighter, and the CF-117 is the new one. Seems to me that, since PS coincides with the events of WC1 at certain points (for some reason), it should be the other way around, but whatever.
Six: As five however Blair and Maniac weren't that good a mates.
Eh, what do you mean by that, Wolfman? That in Prophecy Blair and Maniac weren't as chummy as they were in the movie? Well, they were always friends, just rivals. Play WC4, and you can see glimpses of their friendship. They're most hostile to each other, though, in WC3. Perhaps too hostile, IMHO. Maybe, they get distant after so many years, I don't know.
<wipes sweat from brow>
Whew, that was the longest post I've done in a long time.
[Edited by Dralthi5 on 07-09-2001 at 11:09]
