Thank you for joining us for the Wing Commander CIC's 27th Birthday celebration! It was a hard year in many ways, but we appreciate the Wing Commander community's constant support; they've been the best of us even when times are rough. We hope you enjoy some of the material below and are having fun with us live on the stream. We also also looking forward to the future. In this year ahead we have a new project coming to collect disk images. More info will be forthcoming, but we'll need the entire community's help to make sure we get everything. Our weekly movie club has been a blast, and that will certainly continue with everything from Heaven's Gate to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the schedule. And we'll have a big focus on Super Wing Commander this year to make sure people get to appreciate a forgotten game. A sample of that is lower down below!
LeHah has provided us a kingly gift this year: a Cameo video from Hugh Quarshie, who played Lt. Cmdr. Obutu in the Wing Commander movie! He was nice enough to spend a few minutes talking about a job he probably didn't want to remember (I mean, he was in Star Wars that same year!).
You may have seen Super Wing Commander's unusual introduction before... but have you seen the various midgames? They're pretty fascinating! The original game had a series of midgames that would play after every other system to give you the state of the war (based on how you played): Kilrathi fighting scientists on McAuliffe, sabotage on Brimstone and so on. Super Wing Commander replaced this in the main campaign with two 'vehicle focused' cutscenes... though Prince Thrakhath makes a surprise appearance in the first one! After that, there are custom intros for Secret Missions and Campaign 2 ("Secret Missions 1.5") and an endgame that varies depending on which of your wingmen have died in the campaign! We've included them all below.
I've been slowly working through the Wing Commander footage to work out what a version of the movie that represents the shooting script and the vision Chris Roberts had in his head when setting out to make the WC movie might have looked like. While this clip isn't polished in the way a theatrical release would be you get a sense of the overall ambition of the project. I think it represents well the overall scope of changes you can expect in nearly every scene once we release a full cut of the movie for everyone to enjoy. Everything in the film is recontextualized and worked to better highlight the various character arcs. I hope you enjoy it.
Would it really be a year in Wing Commander if I didn't have a new spreadsheet for you? This one is intended to help everyone debating on the forums and editing the WCPedia: a complete collection of all the dialogue from all of the Origin FX 'talking head' games. Whether you want the in flight comms from Privateer or the option of comparing the original script across multiple platforms it's all available right here.
FekLeyrTarg once again crafted a fun little scene to help ring in another year of the Wing Commander CIC! The Kilrathi assault is certainly bold, but I think the Paradigm has the definite advantage here. Thank you for all the support over these many years!
This year has been quite intense so unfortunately I didn't have the time for something more ambitious. So I decided to revisit a render I worked on many years ago. It's two Dralthi VIIs ambushing a Paradigm in orbit of a moon. Once again I used the models from the Privateer 3D Archive. The render itself was done in Blender 4.5 with some editing in Adobe Photoshop.
It's time for a new CIC Birthday Poll! Each year we ask how long folks have been visiting. It's wild that some of us have been reporting the Wing Commander news for almost thirty years now!
The old poll asked about the fabulous sketches in the Kilrathi Saga calendar, which works again for calendar year 2025! December's Strakha art was the clear winner, which is odd, since July's Rigakh is obviously the best!
Thank you once again for all of the support all year long! There are some amazing things coming in the months ahead, and we'll be here to enjoy them with all of you. Stay tuned for breaking news!
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