SC 2940A

SC 2940A
Production	Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
Type	Plot
Series	M - Callimachus
Disc	CD5 (PC), CD3 (PSX), Side B (DVD)
Run Time	1m33s
Scenes	294
Locations	Combat Information Center

SC_2940A is a cutscene from Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. It plays when you select "Talk to Sosa." after Telamon M1A and Telamon M1B.

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Transcript

ADMIRAL DANIEL WILFORD: Not long ago, we received a series of transmissions, secret data, to our enemy... Now, our intelligence...

MAJOR TODD "MANIAC" MARSHALL: Where's Sosa?

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: What are you doing?

MAJOR TODD "MANIAC" MARSHALL: Well, I'm a pilot -- I don't see a flight stick on this thing. Now, this message came in a few minutes ago and I...

ADMIRAL DANIEL WILFORD: Recently we've been able to link certain elements together. Perhaps we should have tumbled on this during our troubles in the Peleus system. But, looking at that again, along with your position when you recently 'acquired' those unmarked fighters, made us go back and examine other recent hot spots. Some complex triangulations have brought us to the calm at the center of the storm, and its name is... Axius.

MAJOR TODD "MANIAC" MARSHALL: Been there, done that. Nothing in Axius.

ADMIRAL DANIEL WILFORD: Still an educated guess, when all is said and done. But accompanying this transmission is everything we have on the Axius system: it's barren, unpopulated, desert planets... Perfect place to stage a massive force. Now, we've picked up one report of a rather large capital ship moving into the system. Good luck in your investigations.

MAJOR TODD "MANIAC" MARSHALL: I'm telling you, it's a wild goose chase. If you want to kill some time before things get hot -- Axius, here we come.

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: Not quite. Set our coordinates to the system closest to Axius.

HELMSPERSON</B: Yes, Sir.

COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BLAIR: We're not all going in until I see what's there.

Characters

Speaking

• Admiral Daniel Wilford
• Colonel Christopher Blair
• Major Todd "Maniac" Marshall
• Helmsperson

Non-Speaking

DVD

The DVD Version of Wing Commander IV includes much higher resolution versions of almost every cutscene from the CD-ROM release.

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PlayStation

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Translations

Wing Commander IV's cutscenes were dubbed for the French and German releases.

French

PC

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PlayStation

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German

PC

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PlayStation

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Script

Shooting Script

A Wing Commander IV shooting script has been digitized from the collection of the University of Texas at Austin. A digital version (extracted below) was posted to Origin's Wing Commander IV website in 1996.

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c.i.c. - maniac & wilford - taped -M2ÿÿ maniac's at the comm terminal and seems to be having some trouble. he waves blair over.

Maniac Where's Sosa?

Blair What are you doing?

Maniac points to the terminal screen where a recorded transmission of admiral wilford can be seen playing -- but no audio is coming through.

maniac I'm a pilot. And I don't see a flight stick. This message came in a few minutes ago and--

Blair rolls his eyes, flicks a switch and the admiral's voice comes up.

wilford (comm screen) ...been able to link certain elements together. Perhaps we should have tumbled on this during our troubles in the Peleus system. But looking at that again, along with your position when you recently 'acquired' those unmarked fighters, made us go back and examine other recent hot spots. Some complex triangulations have brought us to the calm at the center of the storm, and its name is Axius... Still an educated guess, when all is said and done...

maniac (overlapping) Been there, done that. Nothin' in Axius.

wilford (comm screen) (continuing) ...Accompanying this transmission is everything we have on the Axius system. It's barren, unpopulated...

maniac raises an eyebrow as if to say, see--I told you so.

wilford (comm screen) (continuing) ...Desert planets. Perfect place to stage a massive force. We've picked up one report of a rather large capital ship moving into the system. Good luck in your investigations.

wilford's recorded transmission concludes.

Maniac I'm telling you, it's a wild goose chase. But if you wanna kill a little time before things get hot, then Axius, here we come...

Blair Not quite. (to helmsperson) Set our coordinates for the system closest to Axius.

helmsperson Yes, Colonel.

blair (to Maniac) We're not all going in til I see what's there.

Storyboards

A collection of Wing Commander IV storyboards has been digitized from the collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Additional lower resolution storyboards have been preserved from Origin's Wing Commander IV website.

University of Texas

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Shooting Schedule

A Wing Commander IV production notebook has been digitized from the collection of the University of Texas at Austin.

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