Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,Īnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand Ī shape with lion body and the head of a man, The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out The best lack all conviction, while the worst The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere Things fall apart the centre cannot hold His work is still widely read today and The Second Coming is frequently read in literature survey courses. Yeats went on to win the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry. Yeats' ears are burning-thanks, gen-select bioweapon. The 1920 poem is usually considered to be a commentary on the disastrous state and uncertain future of Europe after World War I-certainly germane to the post-war confusion and impending doom of the 2673 Wing Commander universe-although there is also a running argument that it owes more to Yeats' pre-war fascination with ancient apocalyptic mythology. William Butler Yeats ( Wikipedia) called The Second Coming. Paladin: "Whilst the worst possess a passionate intensity" – Yeats.Īs Paladin indicates, these lines are from a poem by Tolwyn: The intelligence I’ve collected is erratic, unreliable. what on earth induced him to– what the devil is going on out there? Paladin: Blair? Defected? I find that hard to believe. Tolwyn attempts to explain the news by quoting a poem, which Paladin continues: Literature: Yeats It or Break ItĪfter Colonel Blair defects in Wing Commander IV the game cuts back to a scene between Tolwyn and Paladin discussing the news.
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(Ginger was kind enough to provide great scans of the photographs and the pages, reproduced here for posterity-that's better than a lot of professional archives offer!)Ģ011.148 (May 28, 2011) WC vs. Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger is the first of two computer games in which I appeared as Rachel Coriolis the ships weapons officer.Īuction #1: This script segment includes Rachel's offer to let Blair fly the Excalibur and her attempt to console Blair after he learns of Angel's death. I’m a lucky girl who’s had the opportunity to work on and in some amazing projects in both the adult film industry as well as mainstream Hollywood projects. Wing Commander III and Prophecy actress Ginger Lynn Allen is selling two sets of her Wing Commander III script pages-the pages she used in the role, with her lines highlighted! Each auction includes an extremely cool signed photograph from the game's funeral scene-which also shows a uniformed Chris Roberts making a cameo as a Victory crewman! She has a nice paragraph describing her involvement in the game: Alas, there has been no word at all on plans for relaunching Cybermage. Mythic's Creative Director Paul Barnett did go public with his hopes of a Wing Commander I rerelease last year and we helped put together a DOSBox launcher for the game-but there has been no word since that time. We can only hope similar plans are in the works for Origin's other great IPs. This is likely part of the promotion for a rumored Ultima IV-derived social game which may also be called Ultima Forever.
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Revealed was a new web site (see below, screenshot courtesy of Magnus!) called which promises it will be "looking back at over 30 years of Ultima heritage!" The site also offered a curiously not-DOSBox-bundled download of Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, helping to explain why EA became eager to shutter illegal downloads of that game several months ago. 2011.151 (May 31, 2011) BREAKING NEWS: Mythic Ultima Rerelease Site LeakedĮA Mythic briefly-and apparently accidentally-lowered the cloaking device on their plans for the Ultima IP this afternoon.
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