Wing Commander links in Ultima
- Thread starter BlueClaw
- Start date
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Looks like a little red 'X'. 
But yeah, there's a WC2 style Bloodfang in Ultima VII... and there's an anagram of 'Kilrathi' on the walls somewhere in one of the Underworldses.
But yeah, there's a WC2 style Bloodfang in Ultima VII... and there's an anagram of 'Kilrathi' on the walls somewhere in one of the Underworldses.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
That also looks like a little red X -- you can't link pictures off your hard drive <G>
The Bloodfang is located in the fields of a farmer in the city of Britain in Ultima VII. The farmer reports that the "tiger-lion" got out of the vessel, and told him to "Kill Rathi," before accidentally getting impaled on the farmer's Hoe of Doom (or something like that - and the hoe really exists). Unfortunately, the farmer does not know who Rathi is, or why Rathi needed to be killed. After the tiger-lion died, the farmer cooked and ate it.
Ultima Underworld 2 has a race of four legged (i.e. non-bipedal) felines that are used as either guard animals or beasts of burden (I don't recall which). Although they pretend to be dumb, they can actually talk, and speak to your character when given the opportunity. They have legends of when their ancestors used to travel between the stars, and iirc, their name is an anagram for Kilrathi (or very similar to it - its been a long time since I played that game).
There was also an April Fool's gag that Ultima On-line ran a while back that involved news stories of Kilrathi ships attacking the city of Britain. It appeared on the official UO site in the news section.
Ultima Underworld 2 has a race of four legged (i.e. non-bipedal) felines that are used as either guard animals or beasts of burden (I don't recall which). Although they pretend to be dumb, they can actually talk, and speak to your character when given the opportunity. They have legends of when their ancestors used to travel between the stars, and iirc, their name is an anagram for Kilrathi (or very similar to it - its been a long time since I played that game).
There was also an April Fool's gag that Ultima On-line ran a while back that involved news stories of Kilrathi ships attacking the city of Britain. It appeared on the official UO site in the news section.
Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Hehe
Ah well, so much for pics. But anyway, the anagram you were talking about, LOAF, was from Ultima Underworld 2, based on the word 'Trilkhai', which when rearranged gives you the word 'Kilrathi'. The Trilkhai were a race of cats, like leopards, but not upright and bipedal as we know the Kilrathi to be. Here's a short and suspiciously familiar explanation of the Trilkhai's origins from one of the knowledgeable wisps of UW2:
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Of course, there's also WC references in WC... there's a Brittania System in Armada.
There's also another vague reference in one of the Ultima game manuals, that talks about how the sorcerer Mondain, the Avatar's mortal enemy, allied himself with 'star-walking monsters of unparallelled savagery'. Of course, this passage is open to other forms of interpretation.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Originally posted by Bob McDob
Heh, actually the Kilrathi first appeared waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in U1. Weird
No, the Evil Galactic Empire appeared in U1, complete with TIE fighters.
Lelapinmechant
Spaceman
U1 kilrathi/empire?
Was that a joke? It's been a long time since I've played U1. I don't remember the kilrathi or the Empire in it... They were tandy graphics, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed something big. (ugly sprites)
Was that a joke? It's been a long time since I've played U1. I don't remember the kilrathi or the Empire in it... They were tandy graphics, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed something big. (ugly sprites)