Terran Confederation | Wing Commander | Audio Log Pilot

During the war against the Kilrathi, all humanity depended on the Terran Confederation for its survival.
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[@knightofthenine3121]

you guys could had used some of the Previous Wing Commander Cutscenes, WC4 and WCP has some darn good DVD quality cut-scenes therefore, great video, its good to see WC receiving some love ;)

[@osvaldofranco9036]

i want video with it, not just audio😭😭😭🤬

[@dand9899]

You should do the western alliance from starlancer

[@gregtaylor8073]

You should narrate audiobooks, great voice

[@rubenloza1920]

Wing Commander was probably one of my favorite game franchises in the 90s.

[@FiliusFidelis]

Really is a damn shame that Wing Commander is no more. I think a rewamp of the old games would do well today. (yes I am aware of Star Citizen)

[@TheRezro]

Kilrathi canonically do exist in SC universe, but we most likely never actually encounter them due to license reasons.

[@FiliusFidelis]

@@TheRezro They are mentioned? surprising, and welcome I suppose :)

[@TheRezro]

@@FiliusFidelis Well, in license friendly way. Though Chris Roberts implied that there is spiritual continuity.

[@_Muzolf]

Look up Wing commander, Darkest Dawn. It is a fan made game with the freespace 2 engine, and i have to say, it is actually more fun as the originals. (The characters are lovable, the missions are interesting - and really hard sometimes - the whole game is obviously a labour of love.)

[@davidvangerner7241]

Imagine being able to play as a killrathi in star citizen that would be awesome ​@@TheRezro

[@ikelevermann3376]

That is awesome. I played all Wing Commander Games. The Tigers Claw will always be a part of my childhood!

[@dariustiapula]

The Kilrathi learned a very good lesson the day they kill a human. We are really good at war.

[@historynerd176]

A Really good lesson

[@georgezwick3717]

Sounds like they learned the same lesson as the Kizinti think BEFORE you scream and leap. Because evolution is a harsh teacher.

[@Synthmilk]

@@georgezwick3717 Humanity: favored tool of the Puppeteers for the elimination of predatory species and the dangerous exploration of the remains of powerful alien civilizations, whom the Puppeteers had orchestrated the destruction of. But yea, those poor space tigers, they had no chance once they reminded humanity about War. Because War, war never changes....

[@knightofthenine3121]

and years later we learned that there's something that puts fear even on the most rabid kilrathi, which are the bugs.

[@shaysilverlocke6228]

We're not good at war, we're good at figuring how other things tick and breaking it... And we're suicidal in that aspect once they attacked us...

[@AlucardNoir]

Wing commander, is that the Mark Hamill game?

[@BattleDragon88]

Yep

[@johnbrickel6446]

Only from WC3 and beyond

[@daleludtke7803]

Wing Commander 1 & 2 you can name your character, and is known as "bluehair" due to his character model. He was turned into Colonel Christopher Blair callsign "maverick" and "heart of the tiger" (later), portrayed by Mark Hamill.

[@rawbird5341]

No, it's that Freddie Prinze Jr. Film.

[@daleludtke7803]

It is also that, the Pilgram storyline was made canon by that movie.

[@KnightofRome01]

I have never clicked on a video from this channel so fast. Thank you, I am huge Wing Commander fan since I was a child.

[@lexington476]

Oh awesome, I played Wing Commander like crazy when I was a kid.

[@abdulazizaldeghaither3321]

lexington476 good days I loved that game I was very angry on Hobs betrayal

[@g.waldmeister1851]

Same here. Not a gamer at all (now) but Wing Commander was my shit!

[@PetersonZF]

Well, your name is literally a ship from Wing Commander IV. :)

[@lexington476]

@@PetersonZF yep. Not the source of this name, but Lexington is used a lot in ship names.

[@jframe9715]

Like your Avatar. The insignia of the mercenarie group called Crescent Hawk.

[@alemander_01]

Loved the WEC (World Economic Consortium) reference from the Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret games. Would love a video on that and the Silencer Corps.

[@Chameleon102]

Wing Commander was my entire childhood, this is great content!

[@mariusjacobs83]

I even built Wing Commander fighters with LEGO and my desk was transformed into the TCS Concordia \ Victory

[@icepicjoey]

I played all the pc versions of this game. still have WC on the cd set. Loved this series! First played on an IBM 33mhz machine.

[@casperbosman1896]

Yeah me too. my very first pc game was Wing Commander. still remember some of the answers for the questions they use to ask before the game stared.

[@philabrahams383]

I have the first two games on 3.5 floppy disk and that goes for the speech pack as well. And the first PC I played it on was a 286/16Mhz then a 386/20 Mhz and both were painful to play wc on.

[@icepicjoey]

@@philabrahams383 And the 33mhz was smooth as silk...when windows 3.1 was cooperating lol. But trying to run it on xp is overclocked. I tried to slow it down but no good.

[@philabrahams383]

@@icepicjoey See if you can get hold of an old DX2 66 PC running dos or if you haven't done this yet find a copy of DOS BOX and run WC in that.

[@icepicjoey]

@@philabrahams383 ty ill try dosbox first.

[@blackasp001]

Have to say the movie is a Personal Guilty Pleasure of mine, and the film score is just to die for 💜

[@Talos_Valcoran87]

Same. Saw it in theaters when I was a kid and loved it, still love it till this very day.

[@UGNAvalon]

Finally, a space confederation that’s both realistic and non-villainous!

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

Good episode Templin Institute. I’ll need to see the others before I make a final decision, but this one seems like it’ll open up a lot of content that the Institute wouldn’t normally be able to cover.

[@dariustiapula]

Repensum est Canicula. That which does not kill us will wish it had.

[@brndnwilks]

Ahh, quality! The original trilogy was a favorite of mine back in the day. But let us never speak of the abomination that was the movie.

[@l5rphoenix]

I am a huge Wing Commander fan. I have the entire book series (including the novels based off the movie), all the video games, and the board/card games. I wish they'd do a remastered version of the game, or relaunch the franchise for Xbox or PS.

[@stephens021]

This series would be perfect to cover any number of really interesting realities that are only contained within books

[@mikesurlygentlemanwalton]

Sniff... Really miss wing commander. One of the best video games series ever. Even the crappy last one was still awesome. Every game taunt # 3 here kitty kitty... Great games

[@RykerDavis123]

I love this. I can listen while working on other stuff

[@kilotun8316]

Ah, my nostalgia glasses! Well done to you guys!

[@joestewart6027]

I’ve been waiting for this one!

[@crustysocks8019]

Brilliant as usual

[@alphadraconis9898]

Would love to see Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth, or Asimov’s Foundation.

[@charlescilek2281]

Actually love this!

[@MathiasCzR01]

Oh wow this brings back memories!

[@teamnorth1184]

Yes! More Wing Commander please!!!

[@TomMcD71]

A great game series and "you're either a earthworm or a eagle" also the Dragon was a AWESOME fighter but a Banshee wasn't a slouch

[@braderickson9996]

This was good, very good. You forget how deep Wing Commander is. Done correctly(as in, not like the movie, which really disappointed me), a movie reboot could go far.

[@FekLeyrTarg]

I may have something for you, even though it's rather short: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJfaXmifjdVrjqM

[@piotrd.4850]

Actually, re-mastering of cut-scenes with minor segments of space-combat would be enough ;)

[@TheRezro]

I don't really see how it could be adopted to modern days.

[@ericlanglois9194]

I don't know where you got much of your information but 1) you mixed the movie into the game universe, two very different canons, and 2) You didn't even mention the battle of McAuliffe/McAuliffe Ambush in 2634 where the Confederation lost most of it's modern carriers and big gun battleships. That battle alone is worthy of it's own video.

[@FekLeyrTarg]

Actually, she mentioned the attack on Alexandria Station, which was the primary target in the McAuliffe Ambush according to "Action Stations". Also, Star*Soldier already attempted to retcon both the Movie and the Academy Cartoon Series into the game universe, of which I have mixed feeling about myself to be honest.

[@aaronabdo6637]

Love it, love it, love it! The WC series was my favorite growing up. I'd kill to have someone reboot the franchise with today's graphics.

[@rockjock3]

Shit, I know I said, audio logs is the least interesting for me, but now, I am envisioning audio logs covering the Man-Kzin wars by Larry Niven or the Imperial Radch by Anne Leckie or the Culture from Iain M. Bank's series. None of these fictional universes have much, if any, visual representation and I wish we could explore them more via these audio logs.

[@temiajuwon8893]

I agree, although audio logs can be considered more boring than most videos, it brings a lot of content to the table

[@nonoyobizness9090]

Also... the only way to get an SCP vid

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Indeed

[@rockjock3]

@@ramonpizarro ah my mistake. Lemme fix that.

[@diraska]

loved it.

[@luska5522]

MY PRAYERS WERE HEARD

[@Daimon-X]

Wing Commander, Yathzee!!!! It's absolute classic Sci-fi brand

[@karstenjeremy]

Please do the Gundam Universe's ZEON

[@Gorvar100]

Wait...the Pilgrims are canon? I thought that was only movie canon?

[@MSpacer]

Templin generally stretches canon so that they can make videos on what's the most interesting rather than the most official. At least, that's how I see it.

[@knightofthenine3121]

Its canon, Wing commander CIC has an entire timeline about it

[@gabrielaubry1334]

"...Johannesburg, South Africa." "5751 Feet." "SCIENTOLOGY IS THE ONE TRUE RELIGION!"

[@Gorvar100]

@@gabrielaubry1334 I got that reference! I miss Spoony...

[@PetersonZF]

@@knightofthenine3121 With respect, CIC doesn't get to 'decide' what's canon, technically EA does as they own the rights. The movie and games can't be in the same canon, they're wildly different from each other.

[@cartermiller853]

Well that was cool. Long live the Empire!

[@GotHoai]

Wing commander deserves a comeback, im almost 32 but have very little experience with this franchise

[@arcadealchemist]

7:50 SPACE FOOOOOOOOORCE!

[@Sporkmaker5150]

Join the Space Force they said, live a life of adventure and see the galaxy. So what am I doing here hitting the same four nav-points day in and day out year after year for Insystem Security! Fucking recruiter. 😠

[@kevinczaractual]

World Economic Consortium? The WEC was the antagonist in Crusader. Both were by Origin...

[@kallistiX1]

Oh, I would dearly love to see you attempt The Culture. If you manage to get the timeline right I'd be most impressed.

[@franceschik1]

Please, make a video on EVE Online!

[@HoboInASuit4Tune]

yaaaassss

[@marimcgee8379]

Long live CONFED!

[@GarlicPudding]

Yeah, I think this one has my vote.

[@JessPoetics178]

Truthfully, I prefer various images related to the content while I watch and listen. Instead of a floating talking diamond.

[@SFRobertsDickClarke]

Except this will mean huge bodies of altenate worlds will not be investigated

[@59rlmccormack]

Will you do a video about the Dark Empire from Legends?

[@brentlacey5]

Ok an episode about the terran republic (im assuming from planetside) would be awesome

[@stefank188]

I demand a new wing commander game

[@ThatSpecificIndividual]

I hope this becomes chosen.

[@mikemcghin5394]

Uss Walker of Destroyerman

[@robertf3756]

Hell yes

[@blackmonish]

Your voice is amazing. Who else is waiting with baited breath for this awesome gal to pilot the Guinevere???

[@lexington476]

Do the kilrathi next!.

[@juliusmoe-nstar8942]

This is on my birthday!!!

[@iona2225]

Happy Birthday! :D

[@juliusmoe-nstar8942]

@@iona2225 thank you

[@thezebraherd8275]

Mine is tomorrow

[@juliusmoe-nstar8942]

@Dream0fSkye Thank you

[@juliusmoe-nstar8942]

@@thezebraherd8275 Good for you my fellow Libra

[@tauempire1793]

Thats kind of messed to destroy a planet full of billions

[@ArmouredProductions]

TERRAN REPUBLIC HELL YEAH

[@Cherub-vl9bc]

And here i tought we were talking about starcraft

[@historynerd176]

What about a video on some Fallout lore ( because 76 ). wait I just remembered what the last video was

[@TheRezro]

They made at least two...

[@marcolu5395]

If you do audio log, I have a recommendation for you. Can you do an episode(s) on some of the factions from the Leviathan series, by Scott Westerfield? For example, the Clankers, Darwinists, etc.

[@DeeFromNYC]

Do a video about the Kilrathi Empire🐯🐯🦁🦁

[@mixmaster3028]

Maybe one time you should hire a few artists to show off their ships and stories

[@danielramirez1529]

Hey Templin Institute, why do you consider there is insufficient visual for Wing Commander? There are the DOS and Windows games, still shots and that feature film that was in theaters decade or so ago. Great audio log though.

[@nemesisn4522]

Like to see the ueo video

[@r.i.pashleybamboo6215]

The Banished from halo wars 2!

[@stefanjevtic7175]

Why am I only discovering this just now?

[@godzilla5006]

Umbrella Corporation Explained please

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

FOR THE ALLIA-! Oh, whoops wrong video!

[@OverlordZephyros]

Wish i could play wing commander... They really need a remastered

[@davidcojocaruthewolf7177]

peace

[@Bkings7]

For my 9th birthday I asked for money so I could buy a PlayStation the very first game I got was wing commander I'd never heard of it but I liked the spaceship on the cover I fell in love with the franchise it's a shame it died I hope that star citizen actually comes out and serves as a worthy successor to WC

[@DeliriumGameRoom]

Mind covering the Terran Confederation or the Kilrathi using the Wing Commander movie and footage from the games?

[@Petey0707]

Wow, this may as well be Dune with the Pilgrims being just like Navigators. Do they use spice, too?

[@anuvisraa5786]

more like newtipes from gundam

[@bielpr2009]

If this is about soundtracks you MUST do one about Star Wars

[@BeyondDaX]

This isn't about soundtracks

[@bielpr2009]

ooowwww

[@aaroncomer3358]

Do the book about the uss avintine

[@DMSProduktions]

Pilgrims are not canon, they are a side, parallel branch. And the ornithoid race are called the Firekkans not the Firekkans!

[@jframe9715]

Terran Confederation lose in a war with the pilgrim but I don't know if its cannon or not.

[@Falchion1984]

One thing puzzles me about this video. You say there's insufficient visual data? Between the canon Wing Commander games, the movie, and The Darkest Dawn mod, it does seem you'd have enough to work with. Did this prove unfeasible?

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Commodore Blair kind of looks like Luke Skywalker.

[@TheRezro]

Mark Hamill look like Mark Hamill? No shit 0_0

[@PetersonZF]

Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

@@PetersonZF 🤣

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

@@TheRezro 😆

[@boobah5643]

I always pronounced "Firekkans" with three syllables, something like "Fir-Ek-Kans" rather than "Fire-Kkans." Although from the comments, I may be alone in this.

[@dustinwoods7613]

Do the One Year War from Gundam.

[@darthgavel6766]

Please do a video on Eve Online!

[@JusuchinPanjirinanu]

I thought the Star Empire of Manticore was the Audio Log Pilot?

[@SFRobertsDickClarke]

It didnt win through in the last pilot week, but it has made a return in this pilot week

[@SoloWing88]

I thought this one would have pics of itself?

[@caad5258]

Oh shit, the culture is up? Fuck yeah!

[@davidcojocaruthewolf7177]

wars

[@halonut96]

I thought this was about starcrafts confederation, i was so confused

[@calvinhayman7597]

You guys did a debate on wether mechs were actually viable in warfare m. Can you do one on star fighters it be interesting to see that debate

[@Synthmilk]

There is no debate. Lasers and railguns will make fighters obsolete.

[@k9thexv630]

@Synthmilk How so?

[@TheRezro]

@@k9thexv630 There is a limit how fast fighter can move. And no one would outmaneuver automatically targeted laser. Plus when reaching any target take you weeks, fighters are also out of use.

[@anuvisraa5786]

@@Synthmilk yea because beink king of ahes is usefull for some one i do tink space figthers are reali limited probabli more in the use of a helicopter in the modern navi that a plane

[@anuvisraa5786]

why the bay particle beams are far more useful that lasers. lasers are inefective whit armor

[@jamesbaker3032]

Rohon from lord of the rings or helmsdeep

[@astrogchm_5589]

I know your probably buisy running the channel, but maybe you guys could do the SCP foundation?

[@ComradeCorwin]

With a lack of images, I would assume that I would listen to the audio logs like a podcast. The problem is that there is very little illustrative description and so I have a hard time visualizing what is being talked about. For example here, I understand that the Terran Confederation are humans and the Nethelum (?) are an insectoid race, but the Kilrathi and Firekkan are total blank slate and invoke very little imagery, sometimes making it hard to follow if I am not listening intensely. Even if I were, it still ends up lacking flavor and, to an extent, making it hard to really enjoy. I would never want the political elements and events to take a backseat, but if this is the channel I turn to for learning about these things, I would need a little more to get a feeling for the subject being discussed. Not trying to be overly critical. I enjoy this channel a great deal. This format would just have to have some tweaking for me to think it worth the effort.

[@jaycorby101]

Would something Freespaceb related

[@tcs75]

I do have the feeling that the Kilrathi are a cheap copy of the noble Kzinti of Larry Niven's Ringworld Universe (which I suggested to make some videos about before) :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin

[@BeyondDaX]

I figure it was more like a tiger variation of the Klingon Empire when I first learn about them

[@friendofjesus1680]

didn't want to use footage from the wing commander movie? lol

[@nerowulfee9210]

"Culture" It tickles me willy!

[@adogg-2006]

Why no clips from the games? :(

[@thediscordperson1564]

I hope Beastiary wins

[@mharizsaifuddin7059]

Why do they use footage from its movies & video games ?

[@napoleonbonaparte1513]

DO PADISHAH EMPIRE

[@TheJarric]

:)

[@Majber]

Please do more Greater Terran Union instead.