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| | name = Wing Commander Action Stations
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| | image = image:Actionstations.jpg
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| | caption = English language cover, [[Baen Books]].
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| | author = [[author:=William R. Forstchen]]
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| | cover_artist = [[cover artist:=Paul Alexander]]
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| | language = [[language:=English]] <br/> [[language:=German]] <br/> [[language:=Czech]]
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| | publisher = [[publisher:=Baen Books]]
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| | releasedate = [[published:=January 1998]]
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| | pages = [[pages:=345]]
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| | isbn = [[ISBN:=0-671-878559-X]]
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| | retailprice = $5.99 U.S.
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| $7.99 CAN
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| }}
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| {{#set:media=novel}}
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| Novel by [[William R. Forstchen]], published in early 1998 by [[Baen Books]].
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| The book covers the early career of [[Geoffrey Tolwyn]], under the guise of being a [[Terran Confederation Navy|Confederation Fleet]] [[Wilhelm Schwarzmont|historian]]'s [[Action Stations|fictionalized novelization]] published four years after Tolwyn's death; it is a "novel-within-a-novel". The plot centers around the [[McAuliffe Ambush - 2634|McAuliffe Ambush]] at the very start of the [[Terran-Kilrathi War]], an event first described in [[Claw Marks]]; thus, except for the fictional author's foreword, the events in it predate every other Wing Commander game, book, film, or television series.
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| == Cover Copy ==
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| :: <big>'''THEY PLANNED ON A ''NICE'' WAR . . .'''</big> | |
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| : There had been a century of peace, and the politicians of <br>
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| : Earth and its colonies were running on platforms of cutting <br>
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| : “wasteful” military spending―all while Earth's military tried to <br>
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| : keep aging and obsolete ships flying and battle-ready. And <br>
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| : while the swords rusted, war clouds gathered on the horizon. . . . <br>
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| : Contact had been made with the Kilrathi―a warrior race <br>
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| : feline in appearance and deadly in combat. Yet, even though <br>
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| : they had annihilated or enslaved scores of other races <br>
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| : throughout the galaxy, and had attacked human colonies on <br>
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| : the border worlds, the government was not taking them <br>
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| : seriously, thinking that the Fleet could handle them with ease. <br>
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| : Commander Winston Turner knew that the government was <br>
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| : moving toward a declaration of war against the Kilrathi in <br>
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| : response to demands from the border worlds. He also knew <br>
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| : that the Fleet would be forced to operate under Plan Orange <br>
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| : Five: limited action and punitive responses only. He only hoped <br>
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| : that mankind would recognize its mistake before it was too <br>
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| : late.
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| == Chapters ==
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Foreward|Foreward]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter One|Chapter One]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Two|Chapter Two]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Three|Chapter Three]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Four|Chapter Four]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Five|Chapter Five]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Six|Chapter Six]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Seven|Chapter Seven]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Eight|Chapter Eight]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Nine|Chapter Nine]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Ten|Chapter Ten]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Eleven|Chapter Eleven]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Twelve|Chapter Twelve]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Thirteen|Chapter Thirteen]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Fourteen|Chapter Fourteen]]
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| * [[Wing Commander Action Stations Chapter Fifteen|Chapter Fifteen]]
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| == Translations ==
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| === German ===
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| === Czech ===
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| The German language edition, ''Wing Commander: Die Bedrohung'', was published by Bastei Lubbe Verlag in 2000. The alternate cover artwork manages to outdo even its American equivalent for 'What the heck?' factor. As of this writing, this was the last Wing Commander book ever published in any language.
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| |[[File:Diebedrohung.jpg|200px|thumb|right|German language cover.]]
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| |[[File:Cz-ActionStations.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Czech language cover, [[Poutnik Knihy]].]]
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| |}
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| <br clear="all"/>
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| == Timeline ==
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| {| class="wikitable"
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| !Forward
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| !Chapter One
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| !Chapter Two
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| !Chapter Three
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| !Chapter Four
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| !Chapter Five
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| !Chapter Six
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| !Chapter Seven
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| !Chapter Eight
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| !Chapter Nine
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| !Chapter Ten
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| !Chapter Eleven
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| !Chapter Twelve
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| !Chapter Thirteen
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| !Chapter Fourteen
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| !Chapter Fifteen
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| |}
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| == Characters ==
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| == Ships ==
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| === Human ===
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| ==== Fighters ====
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| {| border="0" align=center cellspacing="10"
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| |<CENTER>[[Gotha]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Hurricane]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Wildcat]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Corsair]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Hummer]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Falcon]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Gladiator]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Thor]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Minotaur]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Trident]]</CENTER>
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| |-
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| |}
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| ==== Support Ships ====
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| {| border="0" align=center cellspacing="10"
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| |<CENTER>[[Wasp]]</CENTER>
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| |<CENTER>[[Sheridan]]</CENTER>
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| |}
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| ==== Capital Ships ====
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| ==== Installations ====
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| {| border="0" align=center cellspacing="10"
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| |<CENTER>[[Alexandria]]</CENTER>
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| |}
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| === Kilrathi ===
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| ==== Fighters ====
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| ==== Support Ships ====
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| ==== Capital Ships ====
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| ==== Installations ====
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| == Places ==
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| == Ships ==
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| === Confederation ===
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| {{#ask: [[user::Terran Confederation]] [[source::Wing Commander: Action Stations]]|format=ul |sep=,}}
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| === Kilrathi ===
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| {{#ask: [[user::Kilrathi Empire]] [[source::Wing Commander: Action Stations]]|format=ul |sep=,}}
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| [[Category:Novels]]
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