![]() Their hope is that all game developers should know and understand what made each canon game great and incorporate a little bit of that into their future works. Until next time.Ģ003.302 (October 29, 2003) A Different Kind of Wing Commander Canon PeteyG followed a link at Slashdot that details how certain bodies are seeking to create a noble gaming canon. Tom Dane has bought Earth some desperately needed breathing room. As the alien wormhole collapses, the invasion armara posed on the other side of it is blocked access to Confed space. Our hero perseveres through every challenge - right up to the moment that he leads his Wingmen against their final and most important objective the alien-built Command Center which maintains the wormhole portal.ĭuring the battle to destroy that Command Center, both Blair and Dane's best friend are lost. His best friend is captured - a beautiful young cadet is constantly (and aggressively) competing with him - and the secret that Blair eventually reveals to the youngester will have a tremendous, gut-wrenching impact on his future. But the cost will be high - blasted ships, dead civilians, and lost wingmen.ĭane will also confront a variety of personal obstacles. With each completed mission, he helps Confed move closer to its primary goal of stopping the invasion. His base ship will be the carrier Midway his opponents will consist of various enemy aces, capital ships, and, ultimately, a Dreadnought-class vessel.ĭane must fly recon, escort Space Marines to designated drop points, and battle alien fighters. Our story centers on LIEUTENANT TOM DANE, the best of the best new pilots, as he pursues a series of critical mission objectives. Despite Blair's misgivings, his rookie pilots are pressed into service to confront this seemingly invincible armada - and to stop it before it can reach Earth. Their relatively peaceful lives are thrown into chaos when a giant wormhole appears near the shattered remains of Kilrah and a huage alien fleet of unknown origin invades Confed space. Blair is now Commandant of the Confed Academy, in charge of a new class of cadets who are eagerly approaching graduation. ![]() Nearly a decade has passed since the Border Worlds conflict. It's pretty vague, but it includes two elements that clearly would have improved Prophecy: Casey isn't named Casey, and Maestro dies. Here, for your enjoyment, is the original first draft script summary for Wing Commander V (later Wing Commander Prophecy). He experiences loss, tries to deal with the constant rag of Maniac and the sexual tension/competition of Nemesis. He embodies the balance of a truly gifted flyer and someone who must grow up fast in this war. This is a tremendous blow to Dane one from which he will barely recover.ĭane should be impetuous at times, young, vibrant a little brash, but a great pilot. Maestro returns to Midway radically changed no longer interested in Dane's friendship or much of anything else. It is a relationship which will be sorely tested when Maestro is captured and tortured by the aliens. There is clearly something going on between him and the Commandant, but Dane is damned if he can figure out what it is.ĭane's closest (perhaps only) friend is Maestro. ![]() Indeed, it seems to Dane (and others) that Blair lives for the chance to land on him with both feet. Dane is prone to take big gambles from time to time something which frequently brings an angry Blair down on him. This kid has an edge a not inconsiderable streak of daring that often leads him into major trouble. And getting admitted to the Academy was a hard won first step in that quest.ĭane is very bright a quick, analytical thinker who can get right to the heart of the matter - which is not to say he never shoots his mouth off or makes mistakes. The one thing Dane does know is, despite the fact that his adoptive family were all "earthworms," he has always had a burning urge to be a pilot. He's full of fight, enthusiasm and a deep desire to prove himself - and to find out who he really is. Dane was a foundling an abandoned child of unknown parentage adopted by a generous foster family. two drafts and a shooting script before he became Iceman's son:Ĭadet Pilot.
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