Archive for March, 2010

Arthur Greene was promoted to Commodore in 2298 and his first official duty was to assist in the planning for Operation Red Dirt. Once things were put in motion for Operation Red Dirt, Greene argued with command to allow him to command the invasion group – an argument he eventually won and was put in command of the U.S.S. Canberra (SCG-2008) – the command ship of the Reinager Invasion Group.

Greene is an old hand – he is respected only due to his past achievements, he doesn’t allow his men to learn much about him personally feeling this would cross the line between leader and follower.

Go to Arthur Greene’s Character Page

Part 9 is at 14%, so things are looking good – there will be a lot more lines in this part and we’ll see a bit more character development also.  In Part 9 I hope that we’ll see the story start taking some real shape.

It was really nice to see another article on wcnews.com regarding Part 9 – I just hope I can keep this part on course for its scheduled release mid to late April.

After getting all the dialogue back from the various voice actors I’m real pleased with the quality of work, these guys are awesome! Hopefully I’ll be able to get some more voice actor profiles up on site soon.

In other news Starlancer has me stumped, some real hard missions in that game! I think I’m only at mission 9 – shocking…

Until next time,

Lew

The Dallas was the first ship of the Battle of Toyr’diablo to be destroyed. Upon entering the Reinager System the Dallas along with the rest of the Invasion Group took up high orbit of Toyr’diablo amidst badly co-ordinated Dakota planetary defense fire. The idea that these blasts would fine any targets was dismissed and therefore the invasion group did not even take evasive action.

Unfortunately for the Dallas, one slow moving blast managed to find its target and ripped the Dallas in two. Taken so by surprise the crew of the Dallas perished with the ship. There were some reports of life-pods ejecting from the ship however no Search and Rescue teams were able to locate these.

Go to U.S.S. Dallas Ship Page

Chen was the chief science officer aboard the U.S.S. Asimov (SDX-6152). He was primarily known as a no-nonsense officer who took his job more seriously than any other man, so much so that he had no family as a result.

Chen has been officially listed as ‘missing in action’ along with all hands of the Asimov, however no details of their mission are available.

Go to Tai-Keng Cheng’s Character Page

Part 9 has begun, all the dialogue is written and the audio lines are being recorded and sent in – all are sounding excellent so far! And on Thursday morning I began animation.

Part 9 will show the regrouping of Devers‘ unit from their crash landing and it will show just exactly what the U.S.S. Hammer finds out there by the wormhole  and the results of bringing it onboard….

So it should be exciting when it comes out, my guesstimate puts its release at mid-April (to be safe) so hopefully it won’t be a repeat of the Part 8 debacle with house moving and crashing drivers.

Well to get myself more into the mood of all this space battles and fighting I’m reinstalling Starlancer – the game that Chris Roberts made after the very excellent Wing Commander series.

It’s been called the last of the space sims and this could be the truth (bar Freelancer) but as I remember Starlancer is a wicked little game so should be good to have a replay if I can just figure out how to make a USB joystick work with the damn thing…

More Part 9 Updates to follow very soon!

Lew

The U.S.S. Twiler (SGB-966) was a support ship in the Imperial 4^th Colonial Fleet.

The Twiler was detached and put under the command of the U.S.S. Roanoke (SDD-1081) in 2296 and sent to assist in protecting the C.S.V. Nile Road (TC-26) at Van Gaal VI.

Unfortunately the Twiler was one of the ships among others destroyed in seconds by the new Dakota super-cannons.

Go to U.S.S. Twiler Ship Page

In 2297 Koenig took part in the invasion of Hoyle with his new co-pilot Senior Warrant Officer Aiden Nichols. The two survived the campaign complete unscathed, however it did teach Koenig a few lessons about keeping the flight as turbulence free as possible – he and Nichols were made to clean the vomit out of the rear of the carryall after their landed.

Koenig is a skilled carryall pilot who appreciates the danger posed to himself his men and his craft when landing in the middle of a battle zone.

Go to Ronald Koenig’s Character Page