Trivia 3 Week 18

If this week's trivia were a bomber, it'd be the Crossbow! Good luck on these Week 18 questions... (current standings here).

Welcome to Game Three, Week Eighteen Trivia. We play each week. Every Monday two main questions and one bonus question are posted to alt.games.wing-commander and listed at the CIC. Please email answers to CReid1701@aol.com or ChrisReid@wcnews.com. Be sure to include a name you would like to be known under for the Scoreboard that will be up soon. Have your answers in before this coming Sunday (March 3, 2001) to ensure your answers are recorded. Answers submitted early may be returned and you may be able to fix incorrect answers, time permitting. Main questions answered correctly are good for 5 points, bonuses good for 3.

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Answers to Questions from Week 17 (starting February 19, 2001):

Question 33: How does a Porcupine weapon work?
Answer: A common mine that can be used in various ways from single fighter drops to large scale area saturation.

Question 34: How does a Mace weapon work?
Answer: The famous tactical nuke used for overwhelming force against tight fighter formations and stubborn capital locations.

Bonus 17: How does a Coneburst weapon work?
Answer: Specialized missile that concentrates numerous energy blasts in one general direction.

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New Questions for Week 18 (starting February 26, 2001):

Question 35: What is a Pewter Planet?

Question 36: What is something made of Tungsten?

Bonus 18: What is a mineral the TCS Devereaux examined?

Submissions are due by March 3, 2001.

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Please email answers to ChrisReid@wcnews.com and do not post directly to the Newsgroup.

Sporting a Little Style

Here's something special -- I've scanned the Wing Commander Movie Style Book... this 40 page booklet was sent to merchandisers developing Wing Commander Movie related products. It contains concept art, models and pictures of the ships, weapons and Kilrathi. Check it all out here.

Macross for SL

Daily Bread

If you haven't spent a weekend watching Wing Commander IV DVD one frame at a time, you haven't lived. Luckily, I've done enough living for all of us...

Error! Error!

Because of an error uploading, parts 4 and 5 of the Wing Commander Movie making-of videos were accidentaly cut short -- the proper versions are now available for download from BlackLance.org.

• Trailer - Version #1 (5,038k - 1:21)
• Trailer - Version #2 (2,320k - 0:35)
• Featurette - with text (16,222k - 4:47)
• Featurette - without text (16,256k - 4:51)
• Film Clips (9,950k - 4:19)
• Selected Soundbites (30,336k - 12:31)
• Unedited B-Roll (31,868k - 8:49)