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| ==Appearances== | | ==Appearances== |
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| ===Special Operations 1===
| | * Wing Commander Academy - "Red and Blue" |
| | | * The Confederation Handbook (mentioned) |
| ===Wing Commander Academy===
| | * Star*Soldier (mentioned) |
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| ====TCSN Academy Simulator Handbook====
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| The Crossbow is a formidable Confederation anti-capital ship bomber. It combines impressive armor and shields with good maneuverability and traveling velocity. The fighter is equipped with torpedoes, Friend-or-Foe missiles and an array of blasters that include a rear turret. It was a contingent of Crossbows that destroyed the Grakneth’ Dak, a Kilrathi capital ship first sighted near Gorath.
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| </pre>
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| {{#set:source=[[Wing Commander: Academy]]}}
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| [[category:Confederation Fighter Class Names]]
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| [[category:Confederation Bombers]]
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| ==Corvette==
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| ===Background===
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| The 3D mesh that was ultimately used for the Crossbow introduced in Special Operations 1 was originally built for Wing Commander 2 where it was intended to be used for what was called the Crossbow-class corvette. The Crossbow corvette was one of several ships cut from the game to reduce the overall size but the assets were reused in 1992 for a new ship Special Operations 1 also called the Crossbow (now a bomber). As part of this process, the Special Operations 1 artists re-textured the mesh to appear to be a smaller spacecraft, replacing multiple decks with a single cockpit and dropping the green-with-yellow-numbers color scheme associated with Wing Commander II's capital ships. The original Crossbow texture scheme is still visible in one place: for Wing Commander Academy, artists rendered a 'turnaround' of each ship which rotate when selected on the mission design menu. The new sprites were rendered from the original Crossbow corvette rather than the Special Operations 1 update, making the green paint scheme visible. The original corvette-textured Crossbow model created by Origin for the game is available for download [https://download.wcnews.com/files/wing2/WC3D-Crossbow_Corvette.zip here]. Additionally, a set of specifications for the cut ship have been identified from a preserved printout of Wing Commander II's in-progress ship statistics.
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| ===Specifications===
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| {| class="wikitable"
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| ! Crossbow Corvette -CUT-
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| ! Mass
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| | 400
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| ! Ship Number
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| | 15
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| ! Class
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| | Capital Ship
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| ! Scale
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| | 0x400
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| ! Shield Recharge
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| | 5
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| ! Fuel
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| | 300000
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| ! Damage
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| | 70
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| ! Explosive Force
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| | 20000
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| ! Maximum Speed
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| | 35 kps
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| ! Cruise Speed
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| | 10 kps
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| ! Acceleration Rate
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| | 1
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| ! Yaw Rate
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| | 4
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| ! Pitch Rate
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| | 4
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| ! Roll Rate
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| | 4
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| ! Angular Inertial
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| | 4000
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| ! Guns
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| | Particle Cannon (2)
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| ! Missiles
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| | Spiculum IR (8)
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| ! Torpedoes
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| | Torpedo (4)
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| !Turret
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| |Flak Turret (2)
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| ! Front Shield
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| | 200 units
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| ! Rear Shield
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| | 200 units
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| ! Front Armor
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| | 150 units
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| ! Rear Armor
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| | 150 units
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| ! Left Armor
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| | 100 units
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| ! Right Armor
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| | 100 units
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| ===Gallery===
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| <gallery mode="nolines">
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| Image:WCA_Ship_Selection.png|Wing Commander Academy screen showing the unused 'green' Crossbow corvette
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| Image:Crossbow Corvette Render.png|Render of the Crossbow mesh with corvette textures
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| Image:Crossbow-Corvette-Stats-1.jpg|Unused Crossbow corvette specifications (1/2)
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| Image:Crossbow-Corvette-Stats-2.jpg|Unused Crossbow corvette specifications (2/2)
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| </gallery>
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