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Server Woes

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.26.03

As some of you may have noticed, we are experiencing quite a few problems with our server. We won't bore you with all the gory details of what has happened, suffice it to say that we'll move our site to a new server. In the mean time the website is back online, and rest assured that even though we are working on our server woes, our work on the WC Saga main campaign continues.

-Tolwyn

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German version

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.29.02

For this week's update, we want to let you know that we are currently working on producing a German version of Wing Commander Saga. We know many of our fans are in Germany or speak German as their first language, so with the help of Mind Crusher Studios, we will have a fully German version, as well. We will give you more details as this release draws nearer.

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-Tolwyn

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What Happened To The Last Starfighters?

FROM: Captain Sphynx, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.14.02

For this week's update, we wanted to share with you an article that has recently been published about several fan-made space flight simulations, including Wing Commander Saga. To read the article, follow the link.

-Sphynx

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Cockpits redux

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.30.01

For this week’s update, the Wing Commander Saga team would like to give you a sneak preview of the Longbow cockpit. Although cockpits weren’t included in the prologue campaign, they will be available in the upcoming full release. We have tried to stay as faithful as possible to the original cockpit designs, as seen in Wing Commander 3. In fact, some upcoming code changes in the SCP engine will allow us to do a few things with cockpits that we didn’t think were possible until now… but you’ll have to wait until later to hear more about that. Check out the Longbow cockpit below:

-Tolwyn

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New Poll

FROM: Captain Sphynx, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.19.01

Being a good shot with primary weapons is essential, but a good pilot also knows when to bring out the bigger guns, so to speak. Place a vote for your favorite seconday weapon!

-Sphynx 

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Fan Project of the Year!

FROM: Captain Sphynx, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2008.08.01

The Wing Commander Saga team would like to thank everyone who voted in the CIC's annual Fan Project of the Year contest. This has been a productive year for the WC community, and there were many great fan projects to choose from. Thanks to your support, Wing Commander Saga took first place in a tie with another great WC fan project, Standoff. Among all our reasons for making Saga, our primary goal is to produce something that the fans will enjoy. Your recognition and support help us dedicated to making Saga the best it can be for all of you to enjoy.

Fan Project of the Year

So, we'd like to pay you back a little bit for your recognition by providing you with some more eye candy. The Blue Point base (seen in Wing Commander 4) will make an appearance in Saga's main campaign. Although we won't spoil the story with details about why it is included and what role it plays, we'll share a screenshot to show our rendition of this Confed starbase.

-Sphynx

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Happy New Year

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2007.31.12

Happy New Year everyone! The Wing Commander Saga staff would like to thank the thousands and thousands of dedicated Wing Commander fans who downloaded the first installment of Wing Commander Saga over the year.

Just remember: If you're going out tonight, stay safe. We want you back playing Wing Commander Saga multiplayer with us next year. If you're not going out tonight, feel free to drop by our forums.

-Tolwyn

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Merry Christmas

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2007.24.12

The Wing Commander Saga team wishes all of you a merry Christmas.

To that, we're repeating something we've done in the past - releasing something as a "Christmas present" to our fans. This time we would like to share with you a picture of Klav's rendition of the marine dropship, which will be featured in the WC Saga full campaign.

The Spartan dropship is a heavy landing craft that can carry a hundred Marines and a pair of hover battle tanks. Much larger then the Hermes shuttle, it normally deployed for full-scale planetary assaults. Like all Marine craft, it can forcibly override and board all known Kilrathi naval vessels and can function in all sorts of planetary atmopshere. In addition to lasers and gatling mass drivers for infantry support, it carries anti-matter missiles for suppression bombardments and micro-missile pods for anti-tank support.

-Tolwyn

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Annual CIC Contest Kicks Off

FROM: Captain Sphynx, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2007.20.12

This has been a very productive year for the Wing Commander community! Many great fan projects have been produced some high quality releases this year. Our prologue release and subsequent WC3 demo, WC4 demo, and custom fan-made missions are just one of the many. We are excited that the WC community has so much creative energy. The CIC is holding its annual awards ceremony for fan projects and websites. Drop by the CIC and see what has been released this year. There are a lot of great projects to choose from, so make sure to cast your vote for the one you think deserves the award for project of the year and website of the year.

 -Sphynx

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New Fan-Made Mission

FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2007.18.12

For this week's update, we would like to feature some of the work of one of our newer team members, Talon. Talon has reproduced the Rapier as it appeared in Super Wing Commander. It is a very capable dogfighter with some respectable weaponry.

f just looking at it isn't enough, you can take this new Rapier on a test flight in one of our new custom missions, where you'll find that even a standard convoy raid can come with a few surprises! You can download the mission file here. You can provide feedback here.

-Tolwyn

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