2005.352 (December 18, 2005)

Writing on the Walls

You stop by the Mercenaries Guild office to flirt with the scantily clad hostess and rifle through their stack of individual CDs containing bounties and patrol missions. On the wall, a projector flashes through a series of bizarre advertisements for sex, guns, missing children and... Saddam Hussein? Have you ever wondered exactly what those posters say? Of course -- you're a Wing Commander fan! Now, for the first time, you can see them in their original format. Marvel at the fact that that child has been missing for 43 years... or that in the futuristic world of Privateer, phone sex costs more than a 9,500 ESK missile. I know where I'd get my satisfaction!

Now, let's see one of the community's graphics geniuses get to work on a high resolution LOVE YOUR DAD poster we could have printed...

We're No Lanced.Babes, But We Get By...

When Secret Missions 2: Crusade came out it added a lot to the Wing Commander universe: imposing Snakeir carriers, deadly Hhriss experimental fighters, a race of improbably bird-like aliens... but to those of us who were young men in 1991 it added something we felt all the more important: the ability to look at the pinup next to your locker on the Tiger's Claw. In keeping with the spirit of today's Privateer posters update, we now enshrine that great screen to the internet. I wonder if that's Saranya Carr...