Trivia 3, Week 34

2634 marked the beginning of the most terrifying war in history. Now play trivia.

Welcome to Game Three, Week Thirty-Four 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 (June 10, 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 for Week 33 (starting June 11, 2001):

Question 65: What were the details surrounding a destruction of Jeannette Devereaux's fighter during a mission?
Most Popular Answer: Angel's Rapier was knocked out as she destroyed an incoming Skipper Missile during a sneak attack attempted on Sol System in '54.

Question 66: What were the details surrounding a destruction of Todd Marshall's fighter during a mission?
Most Popular Answer: Maniac sacrificed his craft to cover Blair during the Kilrah Temblor Run in '69. Some sharp trivia players came up with some good answers from his academy days as well.

Bonus 33: What were the details surrounding a destruction of Troy Carter's fighter during a mission?
Most Popular Answer: Catscratch got cocky during a milk run to retrieve a satellite and wound up leeched. His craft was destroyed to prevent Confed from retrieving the item.

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New Questions for Week 33 (starting June 18, 2001):

Question 67: What was a Confederation base or outpost destroyed in the mid 2630's?

Question 68: What was a Confederation base or outpost destroyed in the mid 2650's?

Bonus 34: What was a Confederation base or outpost destroyed in the early 2680's?

Submissions are due by June 24, 2001.

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

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Here's something you might not have seen (because before Joe Garrity kindly gave it to me last weekend, I'd never seen it either)... it's a promotional monitor cover thing for Wing Commander IV! It's a cardboard square with all the keys and such that you place around your screen... it was given out at software stores circa 1996. You can find out more about rare Origin items at The Origin Museum!

Veteran at the Helm

The Lancers Reactor has posted a very cool interview with Phil Wattenbarger and Jörg Neumann, the producers of FreeLancer. They finally credit the game's script to Wing Commander veteran Adam Foshko; and there is, of course, the required WC reference...

There are currently around 20 missions in the story line, and they are all quite multi-part. When you look at a game like Wing Commander, you jump from one point to the next, and each place is an action-bubble, where something happens. You do not get the sense of place and dimension in a game like that, but only see some disconnected places. In Freelancer, everybody you meet has a "mission" or a plan, and they do come from somewhere, so they do have a "home".

From: Ser Ragnar Dannes

To: ML Mercenary; ML Ace Pilots

Please help me! I was told that the pilots on these mailing lists were usually reliable, and at the very least would do anything for a buck. I need someone to save me from a rogue band of Papogod terrorists that I may have pissed off.

I need to leave Crius and I fear they may be preparing to ambush me.

You've seen the amount I'm offering. That will be paid to whoever goes to all four NAV points around Crius and kills any Papogod warships present. Please help, I'm desperate.

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