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New Questions for Week 90 (starting September 17, 2000):

Question 179: Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Mariko Tanaka.

Question 180: Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Svetlana Ivanova.

Bonus 90: Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Jeannette Devereaux.

Please email answers to ChrisReid@wcnews.com before September 24, 2000.

Answers to Questions from Week 89 (starting September 12, 2000):

Question 177: Who was a wing commander of the TCS Tiger's Claw?
Answers Included: Peter Halcyon

Question 178: Who was a wing commander of the TCS Austin?
Answers Include: Jeanette Devereaux

Bonus 89: Who was a wing commander of the TCS Tarawa?
Answers Included: Jason Bondarevesky

Answers to Questions from Week 88 (starting September 3, 2000):

Question 175: What were the modified Raptors that participated in the Enyo Engagement in 2639 primarily carrying for ordnance?
Answer: Porcupine Mines

Question 176: What was the modified Sabre that participated in the K'Tithrak Mang assault in 2667 primarily carrying for ordnance?
Answer: Torpedoes

Bonus 88: What type of missile was the field-produced Gladius that participated on the special ops Heavy Carrier Lexington's 2669 mission to Kilrah primarily carrying for ordnance?
Answer: Dumbfire Missiles

Answers to Questions from Week 87 (starting August 20, 2000):

Question 173: Who was the Gemini Sector military commander's aide in 2669?
Answer: Sandra Goodin

Question 174: What was a major base/homeworld of the retro Church of Man in late 2669?
Answer: Gaia in Eden

Bonus 87: Who was someone that was offering a bounty for the rogue Governor Menesch in late 2669?
Answers Included: Lynn Murphy, Roman Lynch and the Confederation

New Questions for Week 86 (starting August 13, 2000):

Question 171: What is a Nephilim fighter craft that had just one gun?
Answers Included: Remora or Lamprey

Question 172: What is a Nephilim fighter craft that had a default maximum velocity of less than 400 kps?
Answers Included: Skate or Remora

Bonus 86: What is the most destructive non-torp/mine missile the Nephilim employ?
Answer: Hades AR

Answers to Questions from Week 85 (starting August 6, 2000):

Special questions for a special week..

I suppose it'd be fitting if the "answers" were my own answers..

Question 169: What was your first Wing Commander experience?
Answer: They sort of meshed together back in the early nineties. I got WC1 for the Super Nintendo.. and not too long after got WC2 for the PC.

Question 170: What's your favorite Wing Commander product and why?
Answer: Real real hard to say.. I remember months upon months of jumping into any WC2 mission and playing for hours. WC3 made me feel the most a part of the game.. and I felt the biggest shock after WC4. Memories from Armada actually stick out for some reason.

Bonus 85: What's a good trivia question?
Philip's suggestion about spec minimums was good. It's simple too, so we're gonna give it a go sort of.

Answers to Questions for Week 84 (starting July 30, 2000):

Question 167: What is the name of a planet in the Kilrah System besides the Kilrathi homeworld?
Answers Included: T'mog and Rawsh

Question 168: What is the name of a planet in the Troy System?
Answers Included: Helen

Bonus 84: What is the name of a planet in the Hom System?
Answers Included: Crius, Hermes and Anhur

Answers to Questions from Week 83 (starting July 16, 2000):

Question 165: How was the TCS Iowa destroyed in 2654?
Answer: It went up with Pegasus Station.

Question 166: How was the TCS William Tell destroyed in 2667?
Answer: Delaying Fralthra/Jumping Retreat.

Bonus 83: How was the TCS Marburg destroyed in 2681?
Answer: Nephilim decoy/Kilrathi raiders in Simulator.

Answers to Questions from Week 82 (starting July 9, 2000):

Question 163: Who was one of Christopher Blair's wingmates when he flew off of Caernarvon Station?
Answer: Elizabeth "Shadow" Norwood

Question 164: Who was one of Christopher Blair's wingmates when he flew off of the Bonnie Heather?
Answer: Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas

Bonus 82: Who was one of Lance Casey's wingmates when he flew off of the TCS Cerberus?
Answers Included: Max "Maestro" Garrett

Answers to Questions from Week 81 (starting July 2, 2000):

Question 161: What were two fighters operating in 2654 that had an afterburner speed of at least 1200 kps, and what was a place that they were deployed?
Common Answers: Hornet and Rapier, Vega Sector

Question 162: What were two fighters operating in 2667 that had an afterburner speed of at least 1300 kps, and what was a place that they were deployed?
Common Answers: Epee and Ferret, Enigma Sector

Bonus 81: What were two fighters operating in 2669 that had an afterburner speed of at least 1400 kps, and what was a place that they were deployed?
Common Answers: Arrow and Stiletto, Vega and Gemini Sectors

Answers to Questions from Week 80 (starting June 18, 2000):

Question 159: What was the first civilian information organization to carry reports of the Snakeir?
Answer: Joan's Ships of Known Space (anything Joan/Jane accepted)

Question 160: What conspiratorial organization worked out of Ayer's Rock in 2667?
Answer: The Mandarins

Bonus 80: What secret organization did Geoffrey Tolwyn believe he prevented from committing a coup of the Confederation by pushing through Project Behemoth and founding the Black Lance?
Answer: The Belisarius Group

Answers to Questions from Week 79 (starting June 4, 2000):

Question 157: What craft had the P-64 designation?
Answer: Ferret

Question 158: What craft had the TB-80 designation?
Answer: Devastator

Bonus 79: What craft had the F-44 designation?
Answer: Rapier II

Answers to Questions from Week 78 (starting May 28, 2000):

Question 155: What system was home to the Korah Pokh Listening Station?
Answer: Enigma

Question 156: What system was home to the Achilles Mining Base?
Answer: Troy

Bonus 78: What system was home to the Trojan Four Shipyards?
Answer: Sol

Answers to Questions from Week 77 (starting May 21, 2000):

Question 153: What was the Sivar-Eshrad?
Answer: Annual festival where the Kilrathi military takes a planet and sacrifices its people to Sivar. Critical to morale.

Question 154: What was Custer's Carnival?
Answer: Delaying action in 2649 that almost resulted in the destruction of the TCS Tiger's Claw.

Bonus 77: What was the Peron Massacre?
Answer: Confed siege of Peron. Christopher Blair's parents were killed there.

Answers to Questions from Week 76 (starting May 14, 2000):

Question 151: Who was master of the Great Assembly during the Black Lance attacks?
Answer: James Taggart

Question 152: Who was Sol governor around the time of the Nephilim invasions?
Answer: Cavazos

Bonus 76: Who was a flock-leader during the Firekkan Sivar-Eshrad invasion?
Answers Included: Kree'Kai or Rikik

Answers to Questions for Week 75 (starting May 7, 2000):

Question 149: What was something notable about the Omega ship?
Answers Included: "Stealth" Dreadnought designed near the end of the Kilrathi War.

Question 150: What was something notable about the Vatari craft?
Answers Included: Advanced fighter that could work effectively in tandem with the Hakaga SuperCarriers.

Bonus 75: What was something notable about the Gladius?
Answers Included: Light and Heavy versions deployed in different roles near the end of the Kilrathi War.

New Questions for Week 74 (starting April 30, 2000):

Question 147: What was one notable thing New Detroit was known for? Answers Included: Smog, Industrial Strength

Question 148: What was one notable thing Crius was known for? Answers Included: Advanced Medical Facilities

Bonus 74: What was one notable thing Repleetah was known for? Answer: Prolonged Trench Warfare

New Questions for Week 73 (starting April 16, 2000):

Question 145: What disabled the TCS Concordia's flight deck in 2665? Answer: A traitor's bomb

Question 146: What disabled the KIS Karga in 2669? Answers Included: Assault by two Confederation Cruisers/Radiation

Bonus 73: What disabled the TCS Lexington in 2673? Answers Included: A premature torpedo detonation/Leech weapons

New Questions for Week 72 (starting April 9, 2000):

Question 143: What was the name of a squadron (or the name of the wing that squadron belonged to) that Jeannette Devereaux commanded? Answers Included: Black Lions

Question 144: What was the name of a squadron (or the name of the wing that squadron belonged to) that Todd Marshall commanded? Answers Include: Wild Eagles

Bonus 72: What was the name of a squadron (or the name of the wing that squadron belonged to) that Jacob Manley commanded? Answers Included: Black Widows

Answers to Questions from Week 71 (starting April 2, 2000):

Question 141: Who was someone on McAuliffe that survived the initial planetary bombardment in 2634?
Answers Included: Manuel Ulandi

Question 142: Who was someone that survived the Kilrathi assault of Pegasus Base in Vega Sector in 2654?
Answer: William Wilson

Bonus 71: Who was a Kilrathi in the Kilrah System when the Temblor was launched that survived the planet's destruction in 2669?
Answer: Melek

Answers to Questions from Week 70 (starting March 26, 2000):

Question 139: Who saved Christopher Blair when he was forced to eject near Scylla in 2654? Answer: Christopher W. McCubbin

Question 140: Who saved Dirk Wright when he was forced to eject in Novaya Kiev in 2666? Answer: Christopher Blair

Bonus 70: Who saved Ian St. John when he was forced to eject near Hell Hole in 2668? Answer: K'Kai

Answers to Questions from Week 69 (starting March 19, 2000):

Question 137: What killed most of the colonists of FT957, Telamon.
Answer: The Gen-Select from the Black Lance

Question 138: What killed the crew of the Blue Horizon?
Answer: A Nephilim attack resulted in contamination from an unknown super virus

Bonus 69: What disease was the man known as Lev Arris put into cryostasis for?
Answer: Amyotrophic Ossicular Degeneration virus

Answers to Questions from Week 68 (starting March 12, 2000):

Question 135: How much did a Centurion Mercenary Heavy Fighter cost in 2669 on the civilian market unequipped?
Answer: 200,000 credits

Question 136: How much did a Danrik Heavy Fighter cost around 2790 on the civilian market unequipped?
Answer: 250,000 credits

Bonus 68: How much did it cost to build and launch one fleet carrier around 2668 without fighters?
Answer: 73,000,000+ Confederation Dollars

Answers to Questions from Week 67 (starting March 5, 2000):

Question 133: What was Major Todd "Maniac" Marshall's father's first name?
Answer: Arnold

Question 134: What was Lieutenant Lance Casey's father's first name?
Answer: Michael

Bonus 67: What was Sir Lev Arris' father's real first name?
Answer: Vell

Answers to Questions from Week 66 (starting February 27, 2000):

Question 131: Who was someone on the senior editing/production staff of the shipboard magazine "Claw Marks" in 2654?
Most Common Answers: Colonel Christopher Roberts & Captain Aaron Allston

Question 132: Who was someone on the staff of the shipboard magazine "Victory Streak" in 2669?
Most Common Answers: David Ladyman & Chris Douglas

Bonus 66: What was the name of the shipboard magazine written by the pilots and flight crews of the TCS Midway in 2681?
Answer: Waypoint! (or Punkt Naznachenya! in Russian)

Answers to Questions from Weeks 64 & 65 (starting February 20, 2000):

Question 127: Who accompanied Christopher Blair in his mission to save the TCS Formidable in 2654?
Answer: Bossman

Question 128: Who accompanied Christopher Blair in his mission to destroy the Korah Pokh Listening Post in 2667?
Answer: Angel

Question 129: Who were the three people that accompanied Christopher Blair in his mission to destroy Kilrah in 2669?
Answer: Maniac, Vagabond and Flint

Question 130: Who were the three people that accompanied Christopher Blair in his mission to retrieve Captain William Eisen in 2673?
Answer: Vagabond, Catscratch, Miner

Bonus 64: Who accompanied Christopher Blair in his mission to destroy the Sivar Dreadnought in 2655?
Answer: Knight

Bonus 65: Who accompanied Christopher Blair in his missions to destroy Ayer's Rock in 2667?
Answer: Maniac (and Paladin and Talon)

Answers to Questions from Weeks 62 & 63 (starting February 6, 2000):

Question 123: What was a Confederation Fighter or Bomber in service in 2654 that carried at least three Mass Driver Guns?
Answer: Broadsword

Question 124: What was a Confederation Fighter or Bomber in service in 2667 that carried at least three Particle Cannons?
Answer: Morningstar

Question 125: What was a Confederation Fighter or Bomber in service in 2669 that carried at least three Tachyon Cannons?
Answer: Excalibur

Question 126: What was a Confederation Fighter or Bomber in service in 2673 that carried at least three Light Tachyon Cannons?
Answer: Bearcat

Bonus 62: What was a Confederation Fighter or Bomber in service in 2681 that carried at least three Ion Cannons?
Answer: Tigershawk, Thunderbolt or Piranha
This was the only one people submitted multiple answers for.

Bonus 63: What was a Kilrathi Fighter or Bomber in service in 2669 that carried at least three Reaper Cannons?
Answer: K'ha'haf

Answers to Questions from Week 61 (starting January 23, 2000):

Question 121: What did Ensign Geoffrey Tolwyn do after graduating from the Academy, but before being assigned to a regular warship?
Answers generally focused on his mission to infiltrate the Kilrathi border and investigate prospects for war.

Question 122: What did Lieutenant Troy Carter do shortly after graduating from the Academy and before being assigned to a regular warship?
Answers generally focused on his meetings with Blair and defection to the Border Worlds military.

Bonus 61: What did Lieutenant Lance Casey do after graduating from the Academy, but before being assigned to a regular warship?
Answers generally focused on his piloting time in the Diplomatic Corps.

Answers to Questions from Week 60 (starting January 16, 2000):

Question 119: Describe or provide an example of a "Long Jump."
Answer: Long Jumps usually occur at pulsars and similar anomalies. Blair and Payback made a Long Jump in 2654. I've also accepted the mention of a Long Jump from End Run.

Question 120: Describe or provide an example of a "Double Jump."
Answer: Double Jumps are risky "double jumps" that can be good escape maneuvers. The Concordia made a Double Jump in Enigma in 2667.

Bonus 60: Who is generally considered to be the mother of the jump drive?
Answer: Dr. Sheri Akwende

Answers to Questions from Week 59 (starting January 9, 2000):

Question 117: In what system was there a Watson's Disease outbreak in 2654?
Answer: Dakota

Question 118: What was a system that Kilrathi used bioweapons in during 2669?
Answers Included: Trafalgar and Locanda

Bonus 59: On what planet did a scientist execute a plan to infect a Kilrathi with a contagious virus and let him go back to the Empire to spread the disease in 2654?
Answer: Greenhouse

Answers to Questions from Week 58 (starting December 26, 1999): Question 115: Explain how a TCS Iason was involved in a particular skirmish.
Most Common Answers Explained Iason catalyst skirmishes with the Kilrathi in the very early part of the war.

Question 116: Explain how a TCS Lexington was involved in a particular skirmish.
Most Common Answers Explained the TCS Lexington's action at the Battle of Earth or against the BWS Intrepid.

Bonus 58: Explain how the KIS Vorghath was involved in a particular skirmish.
Most Common Answer Explained the KIS Karga/FRLS Mjollnir's action against the Vorghath at Baka Kar.

Answers to Questions from Week 57 (starting December 19, 1999):

Question 113: Who was William Wilson?
Answer: Admiral Bill Wilson was commander of the Pegasus Base in the early 2650s. It eventually turned out he was a Pilgrim working with the Kilrathi to harm the Confederation.

Question 114: Who was Vance Richards?
Answer: Admiral Vance Richards was involved in cover actions against the Kilrathi before the War was even first declared. He later became highly involved in Confed Intel and had major roles in critical actions involving the Kilrathi and Border Worlds after the Kilrathi War.

Bonus 57: Who was Enoch Murkins?
Answer: The mysterious captain of the TCS Cerberus during her maiden voyage.

Answers to Questions from Week 56 (starting December 12, 1999):

Question 111: What ship came to the aid of the TCS Trafalgar shortly before she was abandoned in 2654?
Answer: TCS Tiger's Claw

Question 112: What ship came to the aid of the Shy Meadows in 2681?
Answer: TCS Cerberus

Bonus 56: What ship responded to a distress call from the Blue Horizon in 2681?
Answer: TCS Belliard

Answers to Questions from Week 55 (starting December 5, 1999):

Question 109: What was a commodity a privateer could find for sale regularly on Oxford?
Most Common Answer: Books

Question 110: What was a commodity a privateer could find for sale on Hermes?
Most Common Answers: Fuzzy Rodents, Pleasure Borgs

Bonus 55: What was a commodity a privateer could buy, sell or trade at Gar's Emporium?
Most Common Answer: Crystal and Glassworks

Answers to Questions from Weeks 53 and 54 (starting November 28, 1999):

Question 105: What type of fighters were sent to escort the TCS Formidable to the TCS Tiger's Claw in the Kurasawa System in 2654?
Answer: Rapiers

Question 106: What type of fighters were sent from Caernarvon Station to assist the TCS Concordia in the Gwynedd System in 2667?
Answer: Ferrets

Question 107: What type of fighters were sent from the TCS Victory to attack Kilrah in 2669?
Answer: Excaliburs

Question 108: What type of fighters were sent from the TCS Lexington to escort a Marine LC down to Tyr VII shortly before the Black Lance Affair?
Answer: Hellcats

Bonus 53: What was the first capital ship sent to the Kilrah System after the first Nephilum incursion began?
Answer: The TCS Brack

Bonus 54: What two capital ships launched some of the first material offenses from Talos Station during the second Nephilum incursion?
Answer: The TCS Cerberus and TCS Foehammer

Answers to Questions for Week 52 (starting November 14, 1999):

Week 52 answers should have shown knowledge about Wing Commander and not have been superficial quickies.

Question 103: Why did Confed assign a squadron of cadets to the TCS Tiger's Claw while it was under the command of Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn?
Corrrect answers generally mentioned Confed's problem with how Tolwyn fought the war.

Question 104: Why did Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn believe Christopher Blair was responsible for the loss of the TCS Tiger's Claw in 2656?
Corrrect answers generally mentioned the loss of Blair's flight recorder disk.

Bonus 52: Why did Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn reinstate Christopher Blair in the space forces shortly before the Black Lance Affair?
Corrrect answers generally mentioned something about Tolwyn's plans for Blair beyond the immediate Border Worlds fighting.

Answers to Questions from Week 51 (starting November 7, 1999):

Question 101: What was one of two bases the TCS Johnny Greene visited to fix a broken oxygen generator after two years of picket duty?
Answers: Hilo or Xanadu

Question 102: On what planet did Grayson "Brownhair" Burrows discover his Steltek Gun was stolen?
Answer: Jolson

Bonus 51: When (year and date) did the TCSO visit the Tiger's Claw?
Answer: 2654.140 (specific mentions of the TCSO in Port Hedland also accepted)

Answers to Questions from Weeks 49 & 50 (starting October 31, 1999):

Question 97: What system was the Kilrathi Vega Sector Headquarters located in in 2654?
Answer: Venice System

Question 98: What system was the Kilrathi Enigma Sector Headquarters located in in 2667?
Answer: K'Tithrak Mang System

Question 99: What system contained a protected Jump Point that was used to secrete Excaliburs into the Kilrah System in 2669?
Answer: Freya System

Question 100: What system was being used as a staging area to launch a spy mission into a neighboring system suspected of containing a Black Lance base during the Black Lance Affair?
Answer: Callimachus System

B49: In what system did the TCS Midway disable a Nephilim Kraken Shipkiller and acquire its Capital Plasma Weapon in 2681?
Answer: G'Mar System

B50: In what system did the TCS Cerberus and TCS Midway work together to find off Nephilim attacks in 2681?
Answer: Sirius System

Answers to Questions from Week 48 (starting October 17, 1999):

Question 95: What are three fighters that can successfully perform within a planetary atmosphere?
Answers Included: Hellcat, Scimitar, Excalibur, Dragon, Ferret, Sabre, Rapier, Vindicator and Ekapshi

Question 96: What are three specific spacecraft that can successfully retrieve an ejection pod?
Answers Included: Broadsword, Crossbow, Vindicator, Condor, Avenger, Rapier and Devil Ray.

Bonus 48: What are three fighters that can both cloak and jump?
Answers Included: Excalibur, Dragon and Shok'lar.

New Questions for Week 47 (starting October 10, 1999):

Question 93: What were two Snakeir Class Superdreadnoughts that operated in the mid 2650s?
Answer: KIS Grist'Ar'Roc and KIS Shak'Ar'Roc

Question 94: What were two Plunkett Class Cruisers that operated in the early 2680s?
Answers Included: TCS Tereshkova, TCS Adelaide & TCS Bannockburn

Bonus 47: What were two Concordia Class Carriers that operated in the mid 2670s?
Answers Included: TCS Princeton & TCS Lexington

Answers to Questions from Week 46 (starting October 3, 1999):

Question 91: What does ITTS stand for?
Answer: Improved (or Inertial) Targeting & Tracking System

Question 92: What does ICIS stand for?
Answer: Integrated Combat Information System

Bonus 46: What does ELRAR stand for?
Answer: Enhanced Long-Range Anti-Radiation (Missile)

Answers to Questions from Week 45 (starting September 26, 1999):

Question 89: Who was someone who fought on the ground at Repleetah?
Most Common Answers: Dekker and "Grunt"

Question 90: Who was someone who fought on the ground at Vukar Tag?
Most Common Answer: "Big Duke" Grecko

Bonus 45: Who was someone who was on the ground during or after the jail break of Dr. Philip Severin at Alcor?
Most Common Answer: Vagabond

Answers to Questions from Week 44 (starting September 19, 1999):

Question 87: What was one type of fighter involved in the destruction of Pegasus Vega Sector HQ in 2654?
Answer: Dralthi

Question 88: What was one type of fighter involved in the destruction of the Heaven's Gate System Starbase in 2666?
Answer: Sabre

Bonus 44: What was one type of fighter involved in the destruction of the Rigel Supply Depot in 2667?
Answer: Crossbow

Answers to Questions from Week 43 (starting September 12, 1999):

Question 85: Who wrote a semi-biographical novel about young Geoffrey Tolwyn and the beginnings of the Kilrathi War around 2677?
Answer: Colonel Wilhelm Schwarzmont

Question 86: Who published his memoirs in an autobiographical work with the subtitle "The Kilrathi War's Great Ace" in the 2690s?
Answer: Lieutenant Colonel Carl T. LaFong

Bonus 43: What Janet Williamson novel, published on January 16, 2657, was on the best-seller list for eleven months?
Answer: A Treacherous Hero

Answers to Questions from Week 42 (starting September 5, 1999):

Question 83: Who was a Confed pilot that Lieutenant Gwen "Archer" Bowman killed in 2654?
Answer: Alan "Blizzard" Getts

Question 84: Who was an ex-Confed pilot that Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair killed in 2667?
Answer: Major Zach "Jazz" Colson

Bonus 42: Who a Roman Lynch employee that Grayson Burrows killed in 2669?
Answer: Miggs or Captain Seelig

Answers to Questions from Week 41 (starting August 29, 1999):

Question 81: Who lead the Church of Man in late 2669?
Answer: Mordecai Jones

Question 82: Who lead the Demon's Eye Pack in the early 2680s?
Answer: Krahtagh "Bloodeye" N'Ryllis

Bonus 41: Who lead the Kindred in the late 2700s?
Answer: Sar Ricaud, aka Kronos

Answers to Questions from Week 40 (starting August 22, 1999):

Question 79: Why did the Tiger's Claw proceed to the Firekka System after the destruction of the Sivar Dreadnought?
Answers must have included mention of the Firekkans joining the Confederation and/or the Sivar-Eshrad Ceremony.

Question 80: Why did the Concordia proceed to the Pembroke System after the destruction of K'tithrak Mang in 2667?
Answers must have included mention of Pembroke Station and/or the jump nexus between Vega and Enigma Sectors.

Bonus 40: Why did the Victory proceed to the Alcor System after the destruction of the Behemoth in 2669?
Answers must have included mention of the Temblor Bomb and/or Dr. Philip Severin.

Answers to Questions from Week 39 (starting August 15, 1999):

Question 77: What space station orbited McAuliffe in 2634?
Answer: Alexandria

Question 78: What space station orbited Ghorah Khar in 2667?
Answer: Olympus

Bonus 39: What space station provided a strategic defensive presence in the Hellespont System in 2681?
Answer: Callisto

Answers to Questions from Week 38 (starting August 8, 1999):

Since everyone had so much fun with quotes last week.. we're doing them again!

Just kidding.

Question 75: Who was someone who captained the TCS Tiger's Claw before Captain Thorn?
Answers Included: Captain Sansky, Commodore Tolwyn

Question 76: Who was someone who captained the BWS Intrepid before Captain Eisen?
Answer: Captain Dominguez

Bonus 38: Who was someone who captained the TCS Lexington before Captain Paulsen?
Answer: Captain Eisen

Answers to Questions from Week 37 (starting August 1, 1999):

Question 73: Name the person who said: "Perhaps because you are a friend of my liege lord. Perhaps because you are a comrade-in-arms and an honorable warrior. Or, just perhaps, because I wanted to save you for my lunch."
Answer: Kirha hrai Hunter nar Aussie

Question 74: Name the person who said: "So, we have stew.. we have lizard guts.. oh, and we have space bug gumbo."
Answer: Joe Kane

Bonus 37: Name the person who said: "With pleasure."
Answer: Seether

Answers to Questions from Week 36 (starting July 25, 1999):

Question 71: What was the first operational Hades Class Strike Cruiser that TCIS took possession of?
Answer: TCS Cerberus

Question 72: What is the business headquarters planet for the Tri-System CIS?
Answer: Hades

Bonus 36: Who is the Kilrathi war god?
Answer: Sivar

Answers to Questions from Week 35 (starting July 18, 1999):

Question 69: What Confederation ship was "the first to Kilrah?"
Answer: TCS Tarawa

Question 70: What was the first Confederation ship to be destroyed by the Nephilim?
Answer: TCS Devereaux

Bonus 35: What Kilrathi ship, that was later destroyed by Crossbow Bombers, was first sighted near Gorath?
Answer: KIS Grakneth'Dak

Answers to Questions from Week 34 (starting July 11, 1999):

Question 67: Who is someone who lost a family member on Goddard?
Acceptable Answers: Zach "Jazz" Colson or Shotglass

Question 68: Who is someone who lost a family member on Mylon 2?
Answer: Jacob "Hawk" Manley

Bonus 34: Who is someone who lost a family member on Warsaw?
Answer: Mike Polowski

Answers to Questions from Week 33 (starting July 4, 1999):

Question 65: What class of ship was the Bonnie Heather?
Answer: Free Trader

Question 66: What caused the Firekkans to threaten to become an independent nation outside the Confederation in 2668?
Answer: The Confed consideration of the Kilrathi armistice.

Bonus 33: Who said "How's it going? So here we are, in Kurasawa. Kilrathi call it Warach Tha, they say. Empire's s'posed to have several bases on an' 'round the fourth planet..."?
Answer: Shotglass

Answers to Questions from Week 32 (starting June 27, 1999):

Question 63: Who is someone who contributed to the design of the Temblor Bomb?
Acceptable Answers: James Taggart and Philip Severin

Question 64: Who is someone who contributed to the design of the Artemis Missile?
Acceptable Answer: Rachel Coriolis and Aurora Finley

Bonus 32: Who is someone who contributed to the design of the Midway Class Carriers?
Answer: Christopher Blair

Answers to Questions from Week 31 & 32 (starting June 20, 1999):

Question 59: Who was a Kilrathi pilot ace flying around 2654?
Answers Included: Dakhath "Deathstroke" nar Sihkag, Baktosh "Redclaw" nar Kiranka, Khajja "Machine/The Fang" nar Ja'targk and Bhurak "Starkiller" nar Caxki

Question 60: After how many kills is an Ace of Aces Ribbon awarded in Confed?
Answer: 25

Question 61: Who was a Kilrathi pilot ace flying around 2669?
Answers Included: Najji "Fireclaw" Ragitagha, Marjakh "Stalker" nar Kur'u'tak, Bhuk "Bloodmist" nar Som'mers, Kramm "Deathfang" nar Caxki, Prince Thakhath and Ralgha nar Hhallas

Question 62: Who was the 2669 Confed GCM Pilot of the Year?
Answer: Major Lucas Vermelli

Bonus 30: Who was the fourteenth greatest pilot ace (by raw kills) of the Kilrathi War?
Answer: Todd Marshall

Bonus 31: Who was the most decorated pilot in Confed history?
Answer: Christopher Blair

Answers to Questions from Week 29 (starting June 6, 1999):

Answers must be more specific than "knife," "rifle," etc.

There are a million answers to Q57 and Q58, so I'll use Dakhath's answers as he was the last person to submit them. :)

Question 57: Name and briefly describe a specific hand-held Kilrathi weapon.
One Possible Answer: Dor-Chak Laser Rifle - The Dor-Chak (Killing Bird) is the standard Kilrathi boarding sidearm and can be set to different fire modes. First is a short-ranged beam with a wide spread (ca. 10m long, 2m spread), second mode is a longer beam that is focused tighter and can reach targets up to 200m away. Last mode is a ca 1m long laser-torch used for cutting through bulkheads. A Dor-Chak is powerd by a crystaline power cell good for 20 minutes of uninterrupted use.

Question 58: Name and briefly describe specific hand-held Confederation weapon.
One Possible Answer: C47 Assault Rifle - This is the standard assault weapon for Confed boarding forces, consisting of a ballistic rifle firing explosive 2.3mm caseless projectiles along an magnetic field and a grenade launcher firing magnetically accellerated 3.5cm concussion micro-grenades. The rifle can be set to 1, 3 and and 5 bullet burst fire or autofire. The magazine holds 100 bullets and 20 grenades, a fully charged power cell for the magnetic accelerator has enought power for 25,000 shots.

Bonus 29: What is used when a Kilrathi is killed by Zu'kara?
Answer: Claws ("Ceremonial Dagger" was also accepted).

Answers to Questions from Week 28 (starting May 30, 1999):

Question 55: Who wrote: "Not too much to go on. Malakai is dead..."?
Answer: Sir Lev Arris

Question 56: Who wrote: "I know these fighters inside and out, and I can tell you how many picoseconds difference there are in lock times for each missile onboard this 'Tin Can Sally'."?
Answer: Chief Tech Rachel Coriolis

Bonus 28: Who wrote: "We've faced a number of challenges in the short time we've all been shipmates together, and I'm not just talking about the Valgard incident."?
Answer: Captain Wilford

Answers to Questions from Week 26 & 27 (starting May 22, 1999):

Question 51: Why did the TCS Tiger's Claw sneak off to the Corsair System in 2655?
Answer: It moved to Corsair to provide the illusion that the Confederation was abandoning Firekka during the 2655 Sivar-Eshrad.

Question 52: Why did the TCS Concordia power down in an asteroid field in the Enigma System in 2667?
Answer: The Concordia powered down for repairs and covertly struck nearby Kilrathi.

Question 53: Why did the TCS Victory push into the Ariel System in 2669?
Answer: The Victory took place in a Recon In Force action, one of the first offensive moves she had undertaken in quite a while.

Question 54: Why did the BWS Intrepid rush to the Peleus System in 2673?
Answer: Admiral Wilford ordered the Intrepid to check out Peleus because of a sensor and communication "dead zone" that appeared to be eating their ships up.

Bonus 26: Why did the TCS Midway investigate the H'rekkah System in 2681?
Answer: The Midway was responding to a Kilrathi distress call.

Bonus 27: Why did the TCS Cerberus assault the Proxima System in 2681?
Answer: The Cerberus assaulted Proxima to stop the Nephilim construction of a Stellar Accretion Device.

Answers to Questions from Week 25 (starting May 9, 1999):

Question 49: What is a distinguishing characteristic of the Mace missile/torpedo?
Answer: The revolutionary Confed nuclear missile that put the Morningstar on the map.

Question 50: What is a distinguishing characteristic of the Pike missile/torpedo?
Answer: One of the heaviest torpedoes commonly used by Confed after the first Nephilim encounters.

Bonus 25: What is a distinguishing characteristic of the Banshee missile/torpedo?
Answer: The Tri-System "Shield Killer."

Answers to Questions from Week 24 (starting May 2, 1999):

Question 47: What was a position Commander Paul Gerald held in 2654? Specify which ship/base he held that position aboard.
Answer: Executive Officer aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw.

Question 48: What was a position Commodore Thaddeus O'Brian held in 2667? Specify which ship/base he held that position aboard.
Answer: Captain of the TCS Tarawa.

Bonus 24: What was a position Lieutenant Amber Elbereth held in 2681? Specify which ship/base she held that position aboard.
Answers: Pilot aboard the TCS Midway or TCS Cerberus.

Answers to Questions from Week 23 (starting April 25, 1999):

Question 45: What is a notable event that happened in the Vigrid System in 2655?
Answer: The Sivar Dreadnought that destroyed the Goddard Colony was destroyed by pilots off the TCS Tiger's Claw.

Question 46: What is a notable event that happened in the K'Tithrak Mang System in 2656?
Answer: The TCS Tiger's Claw was destroyed by prototype Strakha Stealth Fighters.

Bonus 23: What is a notable event that happened in the Trafalgar System in 2669?
Answer: Trafalgar was one of three systems devastated by Kilrathi biological weapons.

Answers to Questions from Week 22 (starting April 18, 1999):

Question 43: What was Commodore Christopher Blair's father's first name?
Answer: Arnold (Major Arnold Blair)

Question 44: What was Major Kien Chen's wife's first name?
Answer: Mingxing (Ergonomics Engineer Mingxing Chen)

Bonus 22: What was the name of the captain of the ship that Lieutenant Lance Casey served aboard on 2681.071?
Answer: Enoch (Captain Enoch Murkins)

Answers to Questions from Week 21 (starting April 11, 1999):

Question 41: Who is the Kilrathi that defected to the Confederation aboard the Ras Nik'hra in 2655?
Answer: Ralgha nar Hhallas, Kirha was also acceptable

Question 42: Who is the Kilrathi that defected to the TCS Viking bringing plans for the Jrathek and confirmation of the Strakha fighter?
Answer: Hajjnah

Bonus 21: What Kilrathi defected to the Confederation and was later oathsworn to the Captain Ian St. John?
Answer: Kirha hrai Hunter nar Aussie

Answers to Questions from Week 20 (starting April 4, 1999):

Question 39: What guns did the Confederation Heavy Fighter designated F-66D mount?
Answer: The Thunderbolt D carried 4 Ion Cannons and 2 Tachyon Guns.

Question 40: What guns did the Confederation Heavy Fighter designated F-103A mount?
Answer: The Excalibur A carried 4 Tachyon Guns and 2 Reaper Cannons.

Bonus 20: What guns did the Confederation Heavy Bomber designated A-17D mount?
Answer: The Broadsword D carried 3 Mass Driver Cannons.

Answers to Questions from Week 19 (starting March 28, 1999):

Question 37: What was one Confed warship that docked at the Confed McAuliffe Vega Sector HQ during 2634?
Answers Included: TCS Antilles, TCS Belarus, TCS Concordia, TCS Malta, TCS Coral Sea and TCS Ark Royal

Question 38: What was one Confed warship that docked at the Confed Pegasus Vega Sector HQ during 2654?
Answers Included: TCS Iowa, TCS Kobi and TCS Vanguard

Bonus 19: What was one Confed warship that was confirmed in the area near the Confed Sector HQ in Torgo during 2669?
Most Common Answer: TCS Victory

Answers to Questions from Weeks 17 and 18 (starting March 21, 1999):

Question 33: Lieutenant Christopher Blair destroyed a Snakeir Dreadnought at what Confed Nav Beacon in 2654?
Answer: Confed Nav Beacon 147

Question 34: Captain Christopher Blair assaulted the Kilrathi Listening Post in what System 2667?
Answer: Enigma System

Question 35: Colonel Christopher Blair inserted Lieutenants Winston Chang and Velina Sosa into the Comm Station in what System in 2673?
Answer: Orestes System

Question 36: Commodore Christopher Blair was abducted from what Communications Relay in 2681?
Answer: The H'hrass System Relay

Bonus 17: What was the name of the Snakeir destroyed by Blair in 2654?
Answer: KIS Grist'Ar'Roc

Bonus 18: What was the name of the Listening Post Blair destroyed in 2667?
Answer: Korah Pokh

Answers to Questions from Week 16 (starting March 7, 1999):

Question 31: What happened to the TCS Victory after the Kilrathi War?
Answer: It was decommissioned and turned into an orbital museum in Sol.

Question 32: What happened to the TCS Tarawa after the Kilrathi War?
Answer: It was sold to the Landreich and recommissioned the FRLS Independence.

Bonus 16: What happened to the TCS Trafalgar when it set an ambush for the Kilrathi with the TCS Tiger's Claw in 2654?
Answer: It was destroyed. Its fighters were transferred to the TCS Tiger's Claw.

Answers to Questions from Week 15 (starting February 28, 1999):

Question 29: What Confed destroyer recovered fighters off the TCS Tiger's Claw after its destruction?
Answer: Exeter Class TCS Austin

Question 30: What Confed dreadnought came to the aid of the TCS Tarawa after its mission to Kilrah?
Answer: Confederation Class TCS Concordia

Bonus 15: What Confed cruiser attempted to rescue the Twilight Purchase while it was under assault by the Nephilim?
Answer: Hades Class TCS Cerberus

Answers to Questions from Week 14 (starting February 21, 1999):

Question 27: What is a Phase-Transit Cannon?
Answer: The powerful cannon that formed the keel of the Confederation Class Dreadnought. Developed from technology found in the wreckage of the Sivar. Production was discontinued in 2665.

Question 28: What is a K'Ha'Haf?
Answer: Kilrathi Asteroid Fighter.

Bonus 14: What is something the Quanntum 3 Artificial Publisher produced?
Answer: The Victory Streak.

Answer to Questions from Week 13 (starting February 14, 1999):

Question 25: Name the person who said: "After all, I've got a reputation as an omniscient bartender to uphold."
Answer: Shotglass in 2654

Question 26: Name the person who said: "They've figured out the missiles are duds! We're in for it now!"
Answer: Major Karl "Spyder" Bowen in 2681

Bonus 13: Name the person who said: "Ever seen your lungs? Keep cracking wise, I'll show them to you. Up close like."
Answer: Miggs in 2669

Answers to Questions from Week 12 (starting February 7, 1999):

Question 23: What is a ship the Morningstar Heavy Fighters were officially field tested aboard?
Answer: TCS Concordia

Question 24: What is a ship the Crossbow Bombers were officially field tested aboard?
Answer: TCS Gettysburg

Bonus 12: What is a ship the Excalibur Heavy Fighters were officially field tested aboard?
Answer: TCS Victory

Answers to Questions from Week 11 (starting January 31, 1999):

I received many long answers, those below are very concise summaries.

Question 21: Describe the first Battle of McAuliffe.
Shortened Answer: The 2634 Confederation Day "jak-tu" sneak attack on Confed's most fortified base outside of Sol with new Phase-Transit Torpedoes. Casualties included many tens of thousands of personnel, over eighty capital ships and both the orbital and ground based components of the McAuliffe base. Over thirty billion would die or find themselves behind enemy lines in the following weeks.

Question 22: Describe the Terran/Kilrathi Battle of Earth.
Shortened Answer: Penultimate battle of the T/K War. Five Confed Carriers, half a dozen Kilrathi SuperCarriers and dozens of other heavy Kilrathi warships. Literally thousands of fighters and civilian craft in one of the largest melees you could imagine. Extremely opportunistic circumstances and unexpected aid from the Landreich prevented the nerve center of the Confederation from being destroyed in the way a dozen other systems had been devastated in the prior two weeks.

Bonus 11: Describe the seventh Battle of Munro.
Shortened Answer: Seventh Confed attempt to retake Munro in 2668. Went like "clock-work." Notorious because the attack continued despite orders to stand down by Confed HQ because of the signing of the Peace Armistice which later turned out to be a ruse. Admiral Tolwyn was subsequently court martialed. It was later revealed that the whole plan to continue with the assault despite the armistice was a supersecret attempt to put Tolwyn in a position to covertly seek out and unveil the Hakaga fleet that later ravaged the Confederation up until the Battle of Earth.

Answers to Questions from Week 10 (starting January 24, 1999):

Question 19: How was Prince Ratha nar Kiranka (Thrakhath's brother) killed?
Answer: He committed suicide after being bested in combat during the first Battle of McAuliffe in 2634.

Question 20: What was Prince Gilkarg nar Kiranka (Thrakhath's father) executed for?
Answer: Crown Prince Gilkarg's execution was ordered by his father in 2655 after the loss of the Sivar Dreadnought, its support fleet and the shipyards/technology required to build the Dreadnought.

Bonus 10: Describe an assassination attempt on Prince Thrakhath and/or the Emperor during the Terran/Kilrathi War.
Submitted Answers Included: The 2667 attempt on Prince Thrakhath's life by his cousin Khasra and the 2668 attempt on Thrakhath and the Emperor by Baron Jukaga.

Answers to Questions from Week 9 (starting January 17, 1999):

Question 17: What supply depot was comandeered after the mutiny aboard the TCS Gettysburg in 2667?
Answer: Rigel Supply Depot

Question 18: What type of depots were crafted into asteroids in the Kilrah System for use during the mission involving Temblor Bombs in 2669? Hint: Check the terminal.
Answer: Theta II

Bonus 9: What space station in the Sol System was trying to restore its image after a terrorist bombing in 2681?
Answer: Terran Shipyard Arcology

Answers to Questions from Week 8 (starting January 10, 1999):

Question 15: What are three Vesuvius Class SuperCarriers?
Answer: TCS Vesuvius, TCS St. Helens and TCS McKinley

Question 16: What is one Confederation Copernicus Class planetological research vessel?
Answer: TCS Devereaux

Bonus 8: Name one Bhantkara Class SuperCarrier.
Answers Included: KIS Karga, KIS Sivar's Glory and FRLS Mjollnir

Answers to Questions from Week 7 (starting January 3, 1999):

Question 13: What was the most recent non-Terran Republic that the Kilrathi waged war against before their attacks concentrated on the Confederation in the early 27th Century?
Answer: The Varni Republic

Question 14: What is the name of the largest officially recognized (by the Confederation) political body of Kilrathi in 2681?
Answer: Kilrathi Assembly of Clans

nus 7: What is the name of the largest officially recognized (by the Confederation) political body of Firekkans in 2681?
Answer: Firekkan Planetary Alliance

Answers to Questions from Weeks 5 & 6 (starting 12/27/98):

Question 9: In what system was the TCS Tiger's Claw destroyed by Kilrathi Strakha fighters in 2656?
Answer: K'tithrak Mang System

Question 10: In what system did the TCS Concordia go down several months after the Battle of Earth?
Answer: Vespus System

Question 11: In what system was the TCS Victory turned into a TK War Monument after the end of the TK War?
Answer: Sol System

Question 12: In what system is the TCS St. Helens destroyed in 2681 by the Nephilim invaders?
Answer: Luyten System

Bonus 5: In what system does the TCS St. Helens engage the TCS Vesuvius in 2673?
Answer: Talos System

Bonus 6: In what system does the TCS Cerberus gain control of the Nephilim Stellar Accretion Device in 2681?
Answer: Proxima System

Answers to Questions from Week 4 (starting 12/13/98):

Question 7: Where did a flight of Rapiers from the TCS Kyoto join Rapiers from the TCS Tiger's Claw to strike a Kilrathi Fralthi in 2654?
Answer: Venice System

Question 8: Where did fighters off the TCS Eisen join fighters from the TCS Midway in 2681 to participate in an ambush that resulted in the destruction of an Alien Comm Relay?
Answer: G'Mar System

Bonus 4: In what system does the TCS Cerberus attempt to rescue the Shy Meadows in 2681?
Answer: Talos System

Answers to Questions from Week 3 (starting 12/06/98):

Question 5: Describe the circumstances that caused the death of Major Michael Casey. Hint: His remains were recovered in the B'Shriss System.
Answer: His remains were found slashed and toyed with by the Kilrath in his escape pod.

Question 6: Describe the circumstances that caused the death of Larn Regis. Hint: His remains were recovered in the Hom System.
Answer: He died in the crash of the Canera on Hermes.

Bonus 3: Describe the circumstances that caused the death of General Duke Grecko. Hint: No tangible remains were recovered.
Answer: General Grecko was at ground zero with another Marine when they detonated an antimatter mine inside a Kilrathi Hakaga Class SuperCarrier.

Answers to Questions from Week 2 (starting 11/29/98):

Question 3: What are three projects/missions Confed undertook to directly win the Kilrathi War by destroying Kilrah? Hint: Q3 can be answered without data from the novels.
Submitted answers included: Blair's Temblor Bomb mission, the TCS Eagle's Temblor Bomb mission, Project Behemoth and the TCS Lexington's Special Operations mission. If you only listed one of the Temblor Bomb missions, I counted any mention of Angel's Covert Ops team as a second one.

Question 4: In what system was the treaty that finally ended the Terran/Kilrathi War signed? Hint: It was the Vega Sector Confed Headquarters in 2669.
Answer: the Torgo System

Bonus 2: Describe how the Kilrathi Seventh Dynastic War ended.
Answer: I accepted any answers that mentioned the Ki'ra Clan submitting or the Kiranka Clan rising to the throne. As I was basically polling for novel knowledge, I also accepted mention of the visit from the Utara and Shata.

Answers for Questions from Week 1 (starting 11/22/98):

Hint: Think beyond the usual turrets.

Question 1: What are three distinct types of weapons mounted on Midway Class MegaCarriers under normal conditions?
Correct Answers Included: Single Laser Turrets, Dual Laser Turrets, Medium Ion Cannons, IR Missile Turrets and CapShip Missiles.

Question 2: What are three distinct types of weapons mounted on Hades Class Strike Cruiser under normal conditions?
Correct Answers Included: Dual Tachyon Cannon Turrets, Single Laser Turrets, IR Missile Turrets, Torpedoes and a Dao-Tech Mark IV Heavy Plasma Cannon.

Bonus 1: What is the most powerful weapon that the Concordia Class Carriers lack, but was present on the Confederation Class Dreadnoughts?
Answer: The Phase-Transit Cannon

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