SO Fiction
The Terran Knowledge Bank
Jun 18th, 98
- www.secretops.com is posted with the first shockwave trailer.
Interim Week 1
Aug 10th
- SO website gets a full face lift in preparation for launch. Full game description and 11 new demo pictures are posted.
Aug 11th
- ISDN #1 - Sol citizens celebrate victory...
Aug 12th
- E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: Hello! Congratulations!
Aug 13th
- Prima plans to publish an Official Guide for Wing Commander Prophecy Gold! According to B&N 336 pages long and will retail for $19.99 (the original Prophecy guide was 249 pages). Scheduled for an October 1998 release, look for it under the ISBN # 0-7615-1772-3.
Aug 14th
- SO Press Release [See p14]
- Six new pictures are released to www.WCNews.com. 1
- ( These six pictures are included on pages 8, 9, 30, 31, 78, and 79.)
- Eyes Only #1 - PERSONNEL REPORT
Interim Week 2
Aug 17th
- ISDN #2 - Rebuilding Begins in War Torn Sectors
- The Prophecy Gold Guide is cancelled. Prima was afraid that folks wouldn't be interested in it after SO had been up on the net for a month or more already.
Aug 19th
- Eyes Only #2 - LECTURE TRANSCRIPT TSY
Aug 20th
- E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: RE: Hello! Congratulations!
Aug 21st
- ISDN #3 - New Confed Ship Online
Episode 1 “Deep Black”
Aug 24th
- Trailer#2 varient 1 is posted on SecretOps.com.
- Registration button becomes active.
- Eyes Only #1 - CONFED WEAPONS TEST FACILITY
- ISDN #1 - Reception Revelry for Majestic Midway
- E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: CRAP!
Aug 25th
- Eyes Only #3 - PILOT INFO ADDENDUM
- ISDN #2 - Interest: The Twilight Purchase resumes service for...
- E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: Enoch Murkins?
Aug 26th
- ISDN #3 - Reports of Confed Researchers, Faulty Tests, and...
- Pre-release of SO through www.downloads.com only.
- C|Net releases a brand new SO trailer that shows scenes from the first mission and also shows the new Dust Cannon in action. The file is a hefty 10 megs.
Aug 27th
Aug 28th
- SO can now be downloaded in smaller 20mb chunks, Documentation is now available, and the German SO is now available at its website to download.
- Additional SO documentation is released late.
- Eyes Only #2 - Pilot Orientation Form 63/xl1 (This should have been released on the 24th.)
- Eyes Only #4 - Captain Report (This should have been released on the 25th.)
- Eyes Only #5 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey (This should have been released on the 26th.)
Aug 29th
- SO Easter Egg is found.
Episode 2 “Thickening”
Aug 31st
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - CONFED WEAPONS TEST FACILITY
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - Confed Confronts Rash of Rumors
Sept 1st
- Trailer #2 varient 2 The second trailer at SecretOps.com has been changed -- it now reads 'Orsini System' rather than 'Orsini Sector'.
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - Captain Report
- [W] [L] ISDN #2 - Black Market Open for Business
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: GUH?
- Later in the day
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - ALIEN CAPITAL SHIP ATTACK TECHNIQUES
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: RE: GUH?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #3 - SUBJECT: RE: GUH?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #4 - SUBJECT: RE: GUH?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #5 - SUBJECT: RE: GUH?
- It is discovered that one of the Nephilim language taunts (when they die) is actually a curse in Croatian! The message, 'STOKO BANDITSKA', apparently means 'cattle of a bandit' in Croatian, which is some sort of curse (that just doesn't translate directly into English).
Sept 2nd
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #4 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- [W] [L] ISDN #3 - Commodore Blair memorial announced
Sept 3rd
- The episode 2 download is now available. English [German]
Episode 3 “Hide and Seek”
Sept 7th
- First fan made SO CD fan cover, made by Vincent 'Lancer' Formosa, released. [Front] [Back]
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - Vearrier Quadrant Heats Up
- [W] [L] ISDN #2 - Hearings On Aliens Begin On...
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: POSSIBLE SITUATION
Sept 8th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - Captain Report
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - INFORMATIONAL SUPPLEMENT...
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT:RE: POSSIBLE SITUATION
- Kelvin Lim writes a Patch, SOPilots, to help those who have been trying to use multiple callsigns in Secret Ops.
Sept 9th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #4 - CONFED WEAPONS TEST FACILITY
- [W] [L] ISDN #3 - Commodore Blair Remembered...
- [W] [L] E-Mail #3 - SUBJECT:RE: POSSIBLE SITUATION
- [W] [L] E-Mail #4 - SUBJECT: RE: ENOCH MURKINS?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #5 - SUBJECT: RE: ENOCH MURKINS?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #6 - SUBJECT: RE: ENOCH MURKINS
- Secret Ops site now appears to function fully with Netscape browsers.
Sept 10th
- The episode 3 download is now available. English [German]
Sept 13th
- Second fan made SO CD cover, made by Patrick Kilian, released. [Front] [Back]
Episode 4 “CYGNUS TRIANGLE”
Sept 14th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - Captain Report
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - Unconfirmed contacts set settlers...
Sept 15th
- [W] [L] ISDN #2 - Confed Retread
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: FW: RE: Request for any information…
Sept 16th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - INFORMATIONAL SUPPLEMENT...
- [W] [L] ISDN #3 - Confed releases statement about Hot-Spots
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: FW: RE: Request for any information…
- [W] [L] E-Mail #3 - SUBJECT: FW: RE: Request for any information…
Sept 17th
- The episode 4 download is now available. English [German]
Sept 20th
- Fan made icon for SO by Vesa Juusola
- “Captain Johnny” sends WCNews an article on Secret Ops from an Austin newspaper with a picture of the Origin's Secret Ops team... (pg. 155)
- CIC’s Secret Ops Web Guide released
Episode 5 “VIRAL LEGACY”
Sept 21st
- No posts due to the fact that the webmaster was unexpectedly away.
Sept 22nd
- These two should have posted on the 21st.
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - Captain Report
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - "The War Is Still With Us"
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- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - INFORMATIONAL SUPPLEMENT...
- [W] [L] ISDN #2 - General Assembly Hearings Postponed following...
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: Information pt.2
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: RE: Information pt.2
Sept 23rd
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- [W] [L] ISDN #3 - Letter responses
- [W] [L] E-Mail #3 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #4 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins?
- [W] [L] E-Mail #5 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins?
Sept 24th
- The episode 5 download is now available. English [German]
Episode 6 “DUEL”
Sept 28th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - LECTURE TRANSCRIPT TSY
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - Ana Marie Alberghetti Destroyed!
- The Incident report on the Blue Horizon was supposed to be released on this day.
- [W] [L] Email SUBJECT: Outta Luyten
- [W] [L] SUBJECT: RE: Outta Luyten
- [W] [L] SUBJECT: RE: Outta Luyten
- [W] [L] SUBJECT: RE: Outta Luyten
Sept 29th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - Captain Report
Sept 30th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: Invitation
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: RE: Invitation
Oct 1st
- The episode 6 download is now available. English [German]
Episode 7 “FINISHING STROKE”
Oct 5th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #1 - Captain Report
- [W] [L] ISDN #1 - PILOT NOTIFICATION
- [W] [L] E-Mail #1 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #2 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #3 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #4 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #5 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #6 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #7 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
- [W] [L] E-Mail #8 - SUBJECT: RE: RE: Enoch Murkins
Oct 6th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #2 - INFORMATIONAL SUPPLEMENT...
Oct 7th
- [W] [L] Eyes Only #3 - Personal Log: Lt. Lance Casey
- The Lost SO Fiction “SS Blue Horizon” is submitted by creator Johnny “Captain Johnny” Guentzel. Somehow it wasn’t posted on the SO web site so he released it to WCNews. It should have been supposed on Sep 28th.
Oct 8th
- The episode 7 download is now available. English[German]
