>>The 'year of One-oh-Eight' means 2108, the height of the Sixth Great
>>Kilrathi War, in which Decepticons fought as mercenary allies of the
>>Kilrathi. The Kilrathi advance has finally been halted, but pushing
>>them back again is proving very difficult, and the Kilrathi are not
>>breaking.
>
>The Decepticons must have been pretty bad off if they were selling out
>to bioforms.

They were. The war essentially ended with Ghorah Khar, when Prime put Galvatron permanently out of commission and the Decepticons out of the war. After that the Decepticons pretty much vanished, except for isolated sightings, until 2412.

>>McAuliffe is possibly Earth's most famous colony; it has been fought
>>over, taken, retaken, surrendered, siezed, etc. more times than any
>>other planet since the fall of Atlantis. McAuliffe, like many other
>>captured Galactica worlds, recieved infrequent smuggling runs from the
>>Allied forces throughout the war to continue a guerilla war against
>>the Kilrathi invaders.
>
>Living in New Hampshire, I take that one to heart; thank you.

Don't thank me, thank Chris Roberts or however you spell his name.

I played the SNES version of Wing Commander for quite some time before the crappy controls made me give up on it; the first 'news report' involved either the failure or success of guerilla forces on McAuliffe colony overthrowing a Kilrathi invasion. (For reasons never explained, said success depended on your performance in the missions.)

Myself, I think it's a backhanded compliment to name a colony after McAuliffe whose plot purpose is to be the first Human world invaded in -any- Kilrathi invasion...

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