Unused Wing Commander Privateer manual art

The Frontiersman

The manual was originally intended to present the story alongside drawings by Greg Follender. Follender was provided with a document about the story's characters and another outlining the story with the requested illustrations called out. He created artwork for six parts of the story and based on that work he was contracted for additional artwork which included more details from the story and items to use elsewhere in the manual. The version of the story he adapted is longer than the final version or the surviving draft, it includes events that happen after the attack on Shoel relating to Burrows (then named Aaron Burton)'s travel to Troy.

Art	Description
Part One
	Scarab being automatically docked; pulled in to the hangar.
	Jo, under Scarab, telling a big guard named Hank to put down his gun and get to work, she is clearly in command of the situation.
Part Two
	P.C., Kane, and Lars Furstenburg, the base captain, standing around a conference table. L.F. is handing P.C. a small electronic tablet (this is the message that Mack is dead).
	Mack in front of P.C. as a young boy. Mack is showing off scar that he earned on the frontier. This is a memory of Mack recalling his glory slays and the P.C. deciding that he would live a life of adventure like his grandpa. Maybe kid is holding toy Blaster pistol.
Part Four
	Church of Man, having boarded the science station, destroys a lab - tables upturned, a scientist screaming as his life's work is shattered on the floor, consoles spewing sparks, etc.
	Bella Dona has encountered asteroids, Jake has been knocked unconscious and P.C. takes manual control, thus saving the day. (Merchant Cockpit is scene)
Part Five
	The Bella Dona (merchant ship) landing on Helen, an agricultural planet. Spaceport with water mid grass nearby. Idyllic except for the dirty and warred spaceships all about.
Part Six
	P.C. at bar locking eyes with a very self assured woman who's about to make him a job offer, as soon as he crosses to her table.
	P.C. dropping a few coins out of a bag into Jake's hand. Jake is not happy with his payment but is too chicken to challenge our hero.
Misc.
	Spatrac anatomical design as per Illustrated Guide to Extraterrestrials (Special Missions plot). 1/2 page
	Spatracs at home; use your imagination, maybe incorporate P.C. for scale. 1/2 pg. (Special Missions Design)
	Full page illustration to separate the "magazine" section off. This is to represent the Magazine cover and needs to leave room for the title and some feature titles. The mag will probably be called something like The Frontiersman: For Cutthroat Capitalists Living on the Edge but who knows right now. This is the section you have already sent an art for.
	Full page illustration to introduce the narrative history of P.C. This is the frontispiece and should probably be very dramatic and focused on his face. Use your imagination based the story summary.
Story
	P.C. and Kane on Bridge of the Scarab. Smaller than Enterprise bridge but fairly large. Lots of windows. [None of this view screen B.S.] Emphasis on people, this introduces P.C. and Kane.
	Exterior of Scarab (a merchant marine vessel owned by Kane, probably a crew of twenty with plenty Of cargo room, moderately weathered, DO insignia) approaching Sheol Science Outpost (a nearly defenseless station with no planet nearby - Sheol is isolated and totally dependent on supply ships). Only two small ships for traffic. Maybe a Gladius and a tiny science transport.
	Unloading of much needed supplies from the Scarab going on behind Kane who is receiving payment from the eternally grateful Sheol base commander. Their last two supply ships did not arrive, no everyone is helping to unload.
	Introductory portrait of Jo, standing in profile, working at her science station.
	P.C. and Jo engaged in a heated and passionate futuristic version of racquet ball. Our to their mutual competitiveness, veins are standing out and sweat is flying from their brows. This is when they communicate most effectively, while trying to best the other competitively.
	Introductory portrait of Mack, full frontal standing, at work on the bottom of the Clunker. Maybe a drink in background.
	Space battle between C of M and the Scarab. They're in Talons. Maybe Sheol in background. It should look like a losing battle for the Scarab.
	Scarab limps away in foreground while Sheol receives heavy abuse in background, small explosions abound like lesions on a leper.
	P.C. in a turret blasting away at those C of M bastards, this is to demonstrate that his hotshot abilities helped to save the ship from certain destruction.
	Kane being crushed by debris on bridge of Scarab. Maybe Talon outside window ere is room. Clearly any extra's are wounded or unable to help.
	Jo firing her handgun through an opening airlock. She is backed into a corner and has clearly been fighting for a while (bruised and tattered). She went down fighting is the point.
	P.C. assumes command/funeral service for Kane. Wounded and tattered crew are gathered for "burial at void" for Kane. [Not as boring as Spock's.]
	Scarab in a large dry-dock. P.C. is miming that it's a total loss. Perhaps the hack of a mechanic shrugging in the foreground and P.C. looking seriously pissed. There is now nothing left of his former life. The surviving crew, including P.C., have found themselves suddenly unemployed.
	Meeting to solicit Jake as pilot to Gemini in front of a Galaxy Class Merchant ship that looks like it needs to employ a full time team of mechanics and has never had an oil change. They are outside on an extremely busy tarmac at a planet side space port.
	P.C. holding Jake by his throat against a wall inside the Bella Dona (for trying to take some money) M a clear demonstration of who's in control of the situation.
	Looking at Grandpa's bequest (the clunker) as if to say, "What a piece of shit!, but at least it's mine ... and, hey, I can always trade it in."
	P.C. reading the ads in the mission emputer. Ready to make some cash, he's looking for that first cargo or scouting mu that'll pay for a jump drive.

Development Material

Art List

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Character Descriptions

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Outlines

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Version 2

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Manual Draft

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Faxes

Faxes between Joel Manners and Greg Follender developing the artwork.

8/7/92

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8/20/92

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10/21/92

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Administrative

9/21/92 - Shipping Request

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10/22/92 - Purchase Request

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11/16/92 - Shipping Request

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1/5/93 - Contract

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9/1/93 - Mailer Receipt

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Reference Material

Privateer Reference

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Style Reference

These samples of other comics were provided to Greg Follender to indicate the desired style for the manual's art.

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Labeled Scans

These pages of Greg Follender's artwork were labeled by hand by an Origin employee.

The Frontiersman

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Gemini Sector: An Overview

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