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Bluehair leads the strike against the Sivar and destroys it in the Vigrid system for unexplained reasons, ships of that class and armament are never seen again. Clever work by the Claw's crew and pilots allows them to capture a Kilrathi courier ship, which reveals that this weapon is mounted on an entirely new class of ship C-in-C codenames it the Sivar-class dreadnought, after the Kilrathi god of war. Confed realizes that this is the work of a new Kilrathi weapon, the 'Graviton weapon,' which is able to increase the power of gravity by over a hundred times. When the Claw arrives, though, nothing is left but wreckage and corpses a quarter of a million colonists have been killed. The Tiger's Claw, on maneuvers in the Goddard System, receives an abortive distress call from Goddard colony. The game was also released for the Super NES as a stand-alone cartridge.

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It requires the WC1 software to run, but adds new missions, new ships, a new storyline, and an increase in difficulty. Wing Commander: Secret Missions was an add-on campaign from Origin, notable for being one of the first expansion packs in video gaming history. In 1994, Wing Commander was retroactively renamed Wing Commander I in a bundled re-release of both games, in preparation for the release of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. Of the two endings, the 'winning' path is established as canon by the game's two expansion packs, as well as the sequel, Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi. On the other hand, if the player does not perform optimally, missions become increasingly defensive in nature and eventually the Claw is forced to retreat. The pilot (known to Origin personnel as 'Bluehair,' after his most notable feature) quickly rises through the ranks of the flight wing, and (presuming the player performs ideally in the cockpit) eventually leads a strike on the Kilrathi High Command starbase in the Venice system.

The player gets to name the pilot and choose his callsign. The player takes the role of a nameless pilot aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw, a Bengal-class Strike Carrier.

1.3 Wing Commander: The Secret Missions 2: Crusade.

1.2 Wing Commander: The Secret Missions.

As far as the Wiki is concerned this detail is also ' canon'. So there is a bit of 'in-universe 'unreliable narrative' aspect to the games.

Most impressively, cockpit performance affected gameplay: going above and beyond the call of duty resulted in medals, promotions in rank were awarded at regular intervals, and success or failure on certain critical missions would even decide the player's plot progress, 'winning' or 'losing'.Īs per the WC1&2 guide, the WC1 and 2 games are considered 'holovid' versions based on the 'actual events' so details given in them might not be 'entirely accurate', or offer alternate accounts created by the filmmaker Tristam Roberts. Set in the year 2654 and characterized by Chris Roberts as ' World War II in space,' it featured a multi-national cast of pilots from the ' Terran Confederation' flying missions against the predatory, aggressive Kilrathi, a feline warrior race. Released by Origin Systems in 1990, the game was a marked departure from the standard formula, bringing space combat to a level approaching the Star Wars films. It was released in the United States on November 14, 2006.

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In August 2006, GameSpot reported that Electronic Arts would also be porting the SNES version to the PlayStation Portable as part of EA Replay.

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The game was first released for the PC ( MS-DOS) and was later ported to the Amiga, Sega CD and the SNES. Wing Commander (often referred to as Wing Commander I or ' WC1) is the first, eponymous game in Chris Roberts' science fiction space simulation franchise. Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi