More Conflict

As promised, Alexander Grober has sent us the plot for his Wing Commander 3D Movie! A day early, too -- definitely a first for such a project. Read on...

Hi there,

Here's the storyline for my movie: Wing Commander - The final conflict

Wing Commander - The final conflict

5 years after the last conflict with the aliens, space seems to be quite. The Confederation-fleet only needs to fly patrols. Even the last attacks of Kilrathi - they tried to attack colonies, are a thing of the past. Casey and Zero - still stationed on the Midway have been promoted for their fight against the aliens... and Maniac??? He's still his greatest fan and the "best pilot" of the Confederation (that's what he says).
One day Casey, Zero and Manias are flying a simple patrol across 3 Nav-points. Suddenly they receive a SOS-signal of a confederated convoy. It is under attack !! The tree pilots immediately fly to the attack point, but they are too late. At that moment, Maniac receives a transmission - it is the prophecy ("There shall come a time...")!! Maniac only says: "What the hell???" - it is really strange, because the last war was 5 years ago. But Maniac should soon get the answer to his question. Casey, Zero and Maniac immediately return to the Midway and report
their strange experiences.
In the next 8 hours the answer to Maniac's question arrives. 5 different Confederation-Systems are under attack - under attack of Kilrathis !!! A squadron of fighters is launched immediately to attack the enemy. But the Kilrathis have already mobilized a very big fleet. During the 5 last years, they were able to make a new home, called "New Kilrah". Now the cats only want one thing: Revenge !!!
The Midway's assault fighters (including Casey, Zero and Maniac) have to retreat. In a desperate fight against the big Kilrathi-fleet, the Midway tries to crush all cats. But the enemy fleet is too large and so even the Midway has to retreat.
Meanwhile... nearly all Confederation-systems have been attacked by the cats. 70% of the colonies are destroyed. The Confederation fleet only consists of 20% of its previous strength. And the Midway - is always under attack... At last the whole Confederation fleet (or at least what's left of her) has to retreat to the final defense point - EARTH...

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By the way - if anybody has good-quality sounds of Maniac, Casey or Zero ... and so on... (I could use both - English AND German versions !!) - please contact me !!!

Best Regards

Alexander Grober

Our Last, Best, Hope

Conflicting Reports

Hi there again,

Here are some news for WING COMMANDER - The final conflict:

- Storyline will be completely published on Thursday
- movies will be published in two versions
- Version 1: 352x240 MPEG1 directly burned on CD - viewable on TV !!
- Version 2: 640x480 MPEG4 High quality movie for PC Owners

- At first the movie will be rendered WITHOUT any sound !!!!
- After that, the movie will be published (german language)

(at first I didn't want to publish an English version... but for all English WC-Fans...)
- At last, the movie will be published in ENGLISH (I might need help there)

But please notice, that I'm still writing the storyline, and I'm right at the beginning of making the movie.
I know you guys want more details, but I can only say, that it might take a very long time until the
movie is ready. You have to create a lot of scenes - then have to select sound files... and so on...
But what I can definitly say is, that the movie will be ready until September 2002 (latest launch-date) !!!
I already thought about the number of frames I have to render... that will make 45000 frames for 30min !!!
Well ... there's a lot of work left. (Last weekend I rendered 800 frames for the animated logo !!)

Best Regards,

Alexander Grober

It's a Whole New WCMC

The Wing Commander Marine Corps fan project is no longer MIA! They now have a new web site, which is located here. The project is now a Half-Life mod rather than an entirely new game, and is seeking modders, modellers, mappers and voice actors familiar with the HL medium. Interested applicants apply to TAFKAW. Hoo-yah!