Free Speech

While putting together the recent memorial update we extracted all of Maniac's in flight comms from Special Operations 2 to include in the post. After realizing how nice it was to be able to hear those lines on demand I decided to put together a complete archive of the comms from Wing Commander's infamous "Speech Accessory Packs". And so we did! You can find the complete index for four games below. Each site will let you read the script for each line and then play it right in your browser (or save it for later).

Wing Commander

The original Wing Commander didn't ship with speech but several later versions have added it. We've included the Super Wing Commander audio along with the scripts for several different ports; it's pretty interesting to see how things were censored for the Super Nintendo release! We'll add the Sega CD versions of the audio files once they can be extracted with Originator.

Wingmen

• Angel
• Bossman
• Hunter
• Iceman
• Knight
• Maniac
• Paladin
• Spirit
• Fighter Pilot/Comm Officer
• Doomsday (SM2)
• Jazz (SM2)
• Hobbes (SWC)

Enemies

• Bhurak
• Dakhath
• Khajja
• Baktosh
• Kilrathi Fighter Pilot
• Drakhai Ace (SM2)

Wing Commander II

All of the in flight speech in Wing Commander II comes from the Speech Accessory Pack with the exception of several profiles that were added in the expansion packs (including Maniac).

Wingmen

• Angel
• Doomsday
• Hobbes
• Jazz
• Stingray
• Shadow
• Spirit
• Male Fighter Pilot
• Female Fighter Pilot
• Maniac (SO2)

Capital Ships

• Paladin
• Major Edmond
• Male Comm Officer
• Female Comm Officer
• Male Freighter Pilot
• Female Freighter Pilot

Enemies

• Khasra
• Rakti
• Kur
• Jazz
• Prince Thrakhath
• Kilrathi Fighter Pilot
• Drakhai Ace
• Kilrathi Comm Officer
• Gettysburg Pilot (SO1)
• Mandarin #16309 (SO2)

Wing Commander Academy

Wing Commander Academy shipped with five sets of Kilrathi taunts. The free downloadable speech pack adds the four wingmen and Candar. All of this speech was repurposed from Wing Commander II.

• Angel
• Hobbes
• Lightspeed
• Maniac
• Candar
• Kilrathi Pilot
• Kilrathi Comm Officer

Wing Commander Privateer

The generic faction speech for Privateer was added for the Speech Accessory Pack. This did not include mission-specific comms which remained as text in the disk version. For the CD-ROM almost all of the audio was re-recorded and the mission-specific NPCs had audio recorded too (the need for the latter caused the former!). We've got both sets below and it's pretty fun to compare them! The original speech pack versions of the faction audio also includes four files for each that aren't ever played: two for retreating and two for jumping out.

Factions

• Bases
• Bounty Hunters
• Church of Man
• Kilrathi
• Merchants
• Militia
• Pirates
• Terran Confederation

NPCs

• Black Rhombus
• Garovick
• Salman Kroiz
• Miggs
• Hans Reismann
• William Riordian
• Seelig
• Steltek
• Hunter Toth
• Unknown (Steltek Drone)
• Vulcan's Forge
• Mordecai Jones (RF)
• Kahl (RF)
• Menesch (RF)
• Transport (RF)
• Uhler (RF)
• Unknown (Salthi, RF)