Project Wingman Artbook

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The Project Wingman Artbook is an upcoming digital progress artbook created by Matthew Nguyen and Abi Rahmani, soon to be available firsthand to Kickstarter backers. It features art created by numerous commissioned artists and numerous tidbits of new lore, including from the story bible.

It is at least 237 pages long and features six known short stories whose combined volume is teased to be at least 120,000 words long. Below is a compendium of information on the artbook from Nguyen himself:

• It will reveal plane details and designations; for instance, "HWID" actually means "hardware ID."
• Evelyn London's favorite burger (in response to a fan question).
• A hint at the distortion and glorification of centuries of United States history and historical figures (in response to a fan question about North American countries doing so).
• One story will be set after Operation Guillotine and centered around presumably non-Sicario mercenaries, involving numerous squadrons named after backers,
• Hitman Team's friendship circle will be briefly explored.
• Religion will be the main theme of the last story.
• The expletive "fire-cursed".
• It will have radically tone-shifting writing,
• One story will be focus on Sicario's survivors eating in the aftermath of the Cascadian Conflict.
• Sicario's chef will be introduced.
• An exploration into the mythologization of pre-Calamity history, possibly on the United States.
• The artbook's largest story will feature Legion, a new female character who is a Sicario mechanic. The story stylistically and tonally resembles non-canon/fanon material he wrote about her. Legion's story from before and during the Cascadian Conflict will be told there.
• The reason for the Dust Mother being called such.
• The true cause/reasons behind the Cascadian Conflict will be revealed, which is hinted to be damning against the Cascadian Independence Force.
• The CIFS Eminent Domain, along with a rendition of the Dust Mother (design personally directed by Nguyen himself), is planned to be given detail and rendition in the artbook as well.
• One story will address Peter Kennedy's conspicuous consumption of his money in Sicario.
• Rendered cordium which will make people "instantly go insane by looking at it."
• The exact casualty count of the Cascadian Conflict (more than three million lives as of writing).

Nguyen promised to tease at least four artbook pages prior to release. All artbook stories were completed as of March 16, 2021. However, it is being delayed due to the addition of more commissioned art and general "feature creep", though Nguyen assured non-backers may still be able to get the artbook.

As of April 16, 2021, it has one character illustration. These will not be displayed prior to release.

All previewed content displayed below is subject to change, meaning no material taken from them is immutable. Should the final product feature changes, it is to be implemented as soon as possible.

Content

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  A leak containing a hint at Comic's personality

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  Leaked list of short stories in the artbook, along with a completed version of "The Good Daughter"

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  Leak featuring a description of Diplomat's helmet

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  Leaked excerpt (by accident) featuring Legion

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  Leaked Page 53 featuring a short story excerpt

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  Leaked Sk.37 Decimator-B page (102-103) with additional lore on the aircraft as well as Federation Peacekeepers. Nguyen says the VX-23 (whose designator "the world is not ready yet for") page comes right after this.

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  Leaked short story excerpt featuring an unidentified silk-haired female character

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  Leaked short story passage, implied to take place after the Cascadian Conflict and featuring an unknown new character named "Smoky"

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  Leaked short story excerpt featuring the post-war meal

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  Another leaked short story passage expanding on Operation Guillotine

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  Leaked Black Flag page

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  Leaked Ronin page

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  Leaked ACG-01 Chimera page

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  Leaked CIF Anura-class air cruiser page

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  Another leaked short story passage about "a group of young Cascadian National Guard officers"

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  Another leak, featuring a Pillars of Communications engineer with an Anura-class air cruiser in combat