A Talented Return

The fantastic new layout at A Talent For War is now live -- head on over to space-combat.net, where you can once again get your daily fix of space-sim news and information!

Within Strike Range

The Vega Strike team recently accomplished three major goals -- they now have a 3D Location Select option, two forms of ship selection and a new physics system which adds orbits, planets and star systems. They hope to release a demo in the near future.

Sound it Out

Almost in the Zone

Great news from Filler -- the WCZone mod for SubSpace -- their host has a new, faster connection and current plans are to open the zone soon! The map is complete, save for one base, and expectations are that the graphics set will be completed in time for launch.

Good Grief!

Two more Peanuts-WC strips from HotT (site), begging the question: when will the madness stop?

Final Goodbyes

Hi to everybody out there,

It has happened... I will leave the community very soon. My last work will be finishing some screens for Pedro with Unknown Enemy. And if Phoenix has any problems with his movie "Wing Commander REBEL ASSAULT", I will try to help a bit. I'll also offer him my AMD Athlon system for rendering...

Anyway... Final Conflict is canceled. I'm really sorry about this, because it was a very interesting project. But I can't do it anymore because of school and work and some other personal problems (girlfriend) ... I was asked if I would provide my Final Conflict Data to a Homepage. Well - I won't do that because I want to keep the scenes and Models for my own. My whole Movie-Directory including Pedros projects and my models has over 450 MB - a bit too large in my opinion... I want to say here that Final Conflict will be canceled and NOT be continued... but ... I know myself... it might be possible that I'm interested again in a few years (when I got more time)... but I don't want to say anything more about this. The offical version is that I'm leaving the community. Who knows what might happen in a few years... - but please don't wait for my return...

I want to thank a few people by the way:

Thanks to:
Phoenix... for helping me with my movie and supporting me with software
WildCat... for offering me a Website for Final Conflict
LOAF... for updating the CIC
Pedro... for giving me some interesting work with Unknown Enemy
Hadrian... for helping me with Lasers and engines...
Everybody out there who helped me finding Plugins and giving me hints for the movie

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I really would like to stay, but the problems are to big to continue working. It's really hard for me to write this mail, but everything has an ending... ...as I said - don't wait for my return...

I'm sure Wing Commander will live on in the future. And I wish you all luck with your projects... just look ahead.

Best wishes for the future,

Alex (also known as "Rylex")

Six Days A Week!

Here's this week's schedule for Wing Commander on Canal+... excitement guaranteed!

Thursday, March 1st - 20:30 (+1)
Friday, March 2nd - 09:21 (+2)
Saturday, March 3rd - 22:11 (+1)
Monday, March 5th - 08:36 (+1)
Tuesday, March 6th - 03:40 (+2)
Wednesday, March 7th - 10:06 (+2)

A Stirring Tribute

In the spirit of HotT's Peanuts strips, Twister has made a WC/Marvel Comics cartoon as "a sign of appreciation to all the fan projects". Awful nice of him!

Shake, Rattle and Reid

Despite constant rumors to the contrary, Chris Reid has survived the Seattle earthquake intact -- so, you can keep mailing him trivia responses. I'll bet there's a great Akkbar joke that should go here...