John Guentzel ("Captain Johnny" here), an Origin staffer and the lead on Secret Ops, put together a list of seven Vesuviuses (he did the same with the Midways - TCS Port Broughton from Arena / S★S is lifted directly from it):
- TCS Vesuvius
- TCS Mt. St. Helens
- TCS McKinley
- TCS Fuji
- TCS Kilauea
- TCS Rainier
- TCS Eisen
I know at least two or three with Prophecy: Secret Ops showing one getting destroyed by the Nephilim.
There's more than that. The Krakatoa was on Johnny's list and made it into Star Soldier as such.
rather than to tribute those, ah, weirdos.
Heh, this sort of thing makes me sad I haven't been part of the Wing Commander community longer.
I remember that. There's still some nice things up there, like Claw Marks. If I recall correctly, I think TC used to run some of the Trivia games too. I missed that.The people who did blacklance.org (still alive, but not updated since 2003) were very nice and always kind to us...
Heh, this sort of thing makes me sad I haven't been part of the Wing Commander community longer.
It has certainly been an interesting ride. WC4 did produce quite a few "weirdo" clubs and some very strange storylines within the WC Aces club but also brought in a lot of fans to the CIC and the other WC sites.
It still seems incredibly recent to me.
Ten years or so ago there were somehow two separate Black Lance fan/RPG clubs that fought with each other... for some reason. I can't really imagine how several dozen people came through Wing Commander IV thinking boy, the Black Lance is really great.
(Wing Commander IV's producer used to joke that they could make back some of their money by selling the forty-odd Black Lance uniforms they had made for the shoot to some kind of neo-Nazi club... and that's what a 'Black Lance club' always reminded me of.)
One of the groups, blance.org (now dead), was just a bunch of jerks who wanted to argue with people. The people who did blacklance.org (still alive, but not updated since 2003) were very nice and always kind to us.... but probably insane. They helped host some of our big files back in the early days and we paid them back by giving them free hosting later... but apparently the founder lost interest and decided to use the webspace to host a pirated copy of Sierra's "Red Baron 2" for some flight sim club. We told her to knock it off, deleted the file and she just went and put it back as if we couldn't see the traffic.
It has certainly been an interesting ride. WC4 did produce quite a few "weirdo" clubs and some very strange storylines within the WC Aces club but also brought in a lot of fans to the CIC and the other WC sites.
There is also something about the way the show works. It ultimately a tight, self contained four season story about the crew and occupants of Babylon 5 and after that... not even the show knew what to do with itself... and there really isn't a lot left of what made B5 awesome in the first place. G'Kar and Franklin are gone, Sheridan has a boring job now, Babylon 5 itself lost all it's interesting characters and exploded, and so on. I'm sure there are still awesome stories to be told in the universe, but until then, there really isn't a lot more to be said. Babylon 5 has told it's story.