Unused Wing Commander Privateer manual art

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The Frontiersman

The manual was originally intended to present the story alongside drawings by Greg Follender. Follender was provided with a document about the story's characters and another outlining the story with the requested illustrations called out. He created artwork for six parts of the story and based on that work he was contracted for additional artwork which included more details from the story and items to use elsewhere in the manual. The version of the story he adapted is longer than the final version or the surviving draft, it includes events that happen after the attack on Shoel relating to Burrows (then named Aaron Burton)'s travel to Troy.

Art Description
Part One
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 1 Number 1.png Scarab being automatically docked; pulled in to the hangar.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 1 Number 2.png Jo, under Scarab, telling a big guard named Hank to put down his gun and get to work, she is clearly in command of the situation.
Part Two
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 2 Number 1.png P.C., Kane, and Lars Furstenburg, the base captain, standing around a conference table. L.F. is handing P.C. a small electronic tablet (this is the message that Mack is dead).
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 2 Number 2.png Mack in front of P.C. as a young boy. Mack is showing off scar that he earned on the frontier. This is a memory of Mack recalling his glory slays and the P.C. deciding that he would live a life of adventure like his grandpa. Maybe kid is holding toy Blaster pistol.
Part Four
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 4 Number 1.png Church of Man, having boarded the science station, destroys a lab - tables upturned, a scientist screaming as his life's work is shattered on the floor, consoles spewing sparks, etc.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 4 Number 2.png Bella Dona has encountered asteroids, Jake has been knocked unconscious and P.C. takes manual control, thus saving the day. (Merchant Cockpit is scene)
Part Five
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 5 Number 1.png The Bella Dona (merchant ship) landing on Helen, an agricultural planet. Spaceport with water mid grass nearby. Idyllic except for the dirty and warred spaceships all about.
Part Six
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 6 Number 1.png P.C. at bar locking eyes with a very self assured woman who's about to make him a job offer, as soon as he crosses to her table.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Part 6 Number 2.png P.C. dropping a few coins out of a bag into Jake's hand. Jake is not happy with his payment but is too chicken to challenge our hero.
Misc.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - MISC Number 1.png Spatrac anatomical design as per Illustrated Guide to Extraterrestrials (Special Missions plot). 1/2 page
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - MISC Number 2.png Spatracs at home; use your imagination, maybe incorporate P.C. for scale. 1/2 pg. (Special Missions Design)
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - MISC Number 3.png Full page illustration to separate the "magazine" section off. This is to represent the Magazine cover and needs to leave room for the title and some feature titles. The mag will probably be called something like The Frontiersman: For Cutthroat Capitalists Living on the Edge but who knows right now. This is the section you have already sent an art for.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - MISC Number 4.png Full page illustration to introduce the narrative history of P.C. This is the frontispiece and should probably be very dramatic and focused on his face. Use your imagination based the story summary.
Story
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 01.png P.C. and Kane on Bridge of the Scarab. Smaller than Enterprise bridge but fairly large. Lots of windows. [None of this view screen B.S.] Emphasis on people, this introduces P.C. and Kane.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 02.png Exterior of Scarab (a merchant marine vessel owned by Kane, probably a crew of twenty with plenty Of cargo room, moderately weathered, DO insignia) approaching Sheol Science Outpost (a nearly defenseless station with no planet nearby - Sheol is isolated and totally dependent on supply ships). Only two small ships for traffic. Maybe a Gladius and a tiny science transport.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 03.png Unloading of much needed supplies from the Scarab going on behind Kane who is receiving payment from the eternally grateful Sheol base commander. Their last two supply ships did not arrive, no everyone is helping to unload.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 04.png Introductory portrait of Jo, standing in profile, working at her science station.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 05.png P.C. and Jo engaged in a heated and passionate futuristic version of racquet ball. Our to their mutual competitiveness, veins are standing out and sweat is flying from their brows. This is when they communicate most effectively, while trying to best the other competitively.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 06.png Introductory portrait of Mack, full frontal standing, at work on the bottom of the Clunker. Maybe a drink in background.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 07.png Space battle between C of M and the Scarab. They're in Talons. Maybe Sheol in background. It should look like a losing battle for the Scarab.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 08.png Scarab limps away in foreground while Sheol receives heavy abuse in background, small explosions abound like lesions on a leper.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 09.png P.C. in a turret blasting away at those C of M bastards, this is to demonstrate that his hotshot abilities helped to save the ship from certain destruction.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 10.png Kane being crushed by debris on bridge of Scarab. Maybe Talon outside window ere is room. Clearly any extra's are wounded or unable to help.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 11.png Jo firing her handgun through an opening airlock. She is backed into a corner and has clearly been fighting for a while (bruised and tattered). She went down fighting is the point.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 12.png P.C. assumes command/funeral service for Kane. Wounded and tattered crew are gathered for "burial at void" for Kane. [Not as boring as Spock's.]
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 13.png Scarab in a large dry-dock. P.C. is miming that it's a total loss. Perhaps the hack of a mechanic shrugging in the foreground and P.C. looking seriously pissed. There is now nothing left of his former life. The surviving crew, including P.C., have found themselves suddenly unemployed.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 14.png Meeting to solicit Jake as pilot to Gemini in front of a Galaxy Class Merchant ship that looks like it needs to employ a full time team of mechanics and has never had an oil change. They are outside on an extremely busy tarmac at a planet side space port.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 15.png P.C. holding Jake by his throat against a wall inside the Bella Dona (for trying to take some money) M a clear demonstration of who's in control of the situation.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 16.png Looking at Grandpa's bequest (the clunker) as if to say, "What a piece of shit!, but at least it's mine ... and, hey, I can always trade it in."
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Story - Other 17.png P.C. reading the ads in the mission emputer. Ready to make some cash, he's looking for that first cargo or scouting mu that'll pay for a jump drive.

Gemini Sector: An Overview

Art Description
Manual body:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 01.png Butch guy in flight suit with a big gun for Mercenary Guild ad.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 02.png Fighter that you can buy
Tugboat that you can buy
Merchant ship you can buy.

All three in one
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 03.png Tough woman with drink in woody English pub for King's Arm advertisement.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 04.png Warp Effect - the flash as a ship enters a "star gate" as another ship waits.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 05.png Kilrathi attacking Exploratory Service scouts, their one escort futily firing back.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 06.png Pirates boarding a scarred merchant ship, debris surrounds the ships.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 07.png Landscape for Pleasure planet. Coastal city with futuristic Vegas or Atlantic City look. Ad.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 08.png Workers installing a turret on a ship you can buy.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 09.png Space traffic around a mining asteroid.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 10.png Church of Man home temple with Eye symbol prominent. Ad.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 11.png Interior bar scene: people making deals / Star Wars bar with no aliens.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 12.png Clean cut bounty hunter holding bedraggled criminal by handcuffs.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 13.png Small fighter escorting large freighter. Space station in back ground. Ad.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 14.png Hand inserting credit card size disk into a ship's instrument panel.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 15.png Local militia ships in formation.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 16.png Shaking hands with a sales man in a commodity exchange (huge piles of crates and goods in background).
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 17.png Person @ mission computer/industrial ATM with place for card and palm print, etc.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 18.png Big Confederation military ships with clear markings/planet in background.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gemini Sector - Image 19.png Huge hangar scene with repair and refuel and landings of many ships.
Silhouettes of the following ships:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Paradigm 2.png Confed Destroyer
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Stiletto.png Stiletto
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Broadsword.png Broadsword
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Dralthi.png Dralthi
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Kamekh.png Kamekh
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Talon.png Talon
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gladius.png Gladius
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Drayman.png Drayman
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Demon.png Peregrine
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Galaxy.png Merchant
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Orion.png Fighter
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Centurion.png Tug-boat
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Tarsus.png Clunker
The following ship modifications:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - BS Omni.png Scanner
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Neutron Gun.png Big ship's gun
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Torpedo.png Missile
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Engine Upgrade.png Engine thing (dilithium jump drive component thingy)
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Magic.png Cargo pods for exterior of ships
Not included in list:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Gothri.png Gothri
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Strakha.png Strakha
Surviving progress drawings:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 07.png Fighter that you can buy
Tugboat that you can buy
Merchant ship you can buy.

All three in one
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 08.png Butch guy in flight suit with a big gun for Mercenary Guild ad.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 09.png Tough woman with drink in woody English pub for King's Arm advertisement.
Undeveloped pitches:
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 01.png Your everyday bulk smuggler attempting to drag illegal Kilrathi weaponry aboard his vessel under fire from closing fighters... Note shadow of Kilrathi fighter descending on hull of ship, strong light from inside ship backlights figure.
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 02.png Inner cockpit scene - dramatic lighting - light blue/green glow on character
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 03.png Cockpit scene of fighter craft being bombarded by enemy Kilrathi fire...
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 04.png Squad of fighter ships leaving space station - sun of some sort (planet?) sets hehind looming station, illuminating it...
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 10.png Character insuring a favorable balance of trade w/ alien black marketeer (...ick.)
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 05.png Character insuring a favorable balance of trade w/ alien black marketeer (...ick.)
Privateer - Unused Manual Art - Progress 06.png Character caught by interstellar police for fencing black market weapons, drugs, etc. (Could also do aliens surrounding character or various unsavories... "a drug or weapon deal gone bad.")

Development Material

Art List

Frontiersman Character Descriptions

Frontiersman Outlines

Version 1

Version 2

Manual Draft

Faxes

Faxes between Joel Manners and Greg Follender developing the artwork.

8/7/92

8/15/92

8/20/92

8/26/92

10/8/92

10/21/92

11/19/92

12/14/92

Administrative

9/21/92 - Shipping Request

10/22/92 - Purchase Request

11/16/92 - Shipping Request

1/5/93 - Contract

9/1/93 - Mailer Receipt

Reference Material

Privateer Reference

Style Reference

These samples of other comics were provided to Greg Follender to indicate the desired style for the manual's art.

Labeled Scans

These pages of Greg Follender's artwork were labeled by hand by an Origin employee.

The Frontiersman

Gemini Sector: An Overview