Project Wingman Artbook

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 presumably featuring Legion, a new female character who is a Sicario mechanic, stylistically and tonally resembled 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 *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

A leak containing a hint at Comic's personalityLeaked list of short stories in the artbook, along with a completed version of "The Good Daughter"Leak featuring a description of Diplomat's helmetLeaked excerpt (by accident) featuring LegionLeaked Page 53 featuring a short story excerptLeaked 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.Leaked short story excerpt featuring an unidentified silk-haired female characterLeaked short story passage, implied to take place after the Cascadian Conflict and featuring an unknown new character named "Smoky"Leaked short story excerpt featuring the post-war mealAnother leaked short story passage expanding on Operation GuillotineLeaked Black Flag pageLeaked Ronin pageLeaked ACG-01 Chimera pageLeaked CIF *Anura*-class air cruiser pageAnother leaked short story passage about "a group of young Cascadian National Guard officers"
## References

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/839197918111989770
2. ↑ Me and Arby are generally in agreement that anything about lore should stay ingame, that being said i'm looking at like, 120k words -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 19, 2022 3:47PM
3. ↑ HWID is plane specific by the way Hardware ID, not a pilot all these details and more will be revealed in the artbook -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, December 14, 2020, 11:37AM
4. ↑ this exact question is answered in the art book -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, December 21, 2020, 7:20AM
5. ↑ I cannot comment on that because that actually ties in a little bit with an art book story -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, February 18, 2021, 4:31AM
6. ↑ There's a great story I have in the artbook that's about post-Cold War mercs A lot of the KS squadrons show up -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 10, 2021, 12:54AM
7. ↑ I actually do a mini psychological breakdown of this in one of the artbook stories -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 10, 2021, 1:17PM
8. ↑ This topic is actually a main subject in the last artbook story not a main subject actually the main subject -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 12, 2021, 6:07AM
9. ↑ I used the term "fire cursed" once as an expletive in an artbook story scrap -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 20, 2021 12:42PM
10. ↑ Yeah this is the type of writing you're getting in the Artbook -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 22, 2021 1:07PM
11. ↑ An artbook story will be completely about Sicario eating food -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 3, 2021, 12:20PM
12. ↑ Well actually she does get mentioned in one of the artbook stories now that I remember -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, February 6, 2022, 12:09PM
13. ↑ -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, February 18, 2021, 4:31AM
14. ↑ The problem with this Legion fic is that it comes stupidly close to the art book's largest story in terms of style and tone -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, February 19, 2021, 4:51AM
15. ↑ in the art book she goes from having no work to do because hitman is too good to being the only remaining mechanic left -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, May 30, 2021, 4:50AM
16. ↑ Explained in the Art book-Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, February 23, 2021, 1:15PM
17. ↑ one of the artbook stories touches upon like, what EXACTLY kicked off the war And it doesn't really put the Cascadians in a good light -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 12, 2021, 12:06AM
18. ↑ there's only one version of her given i dictated the design -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 30, 2021, 6:50AM
19. ↑ I refuse to outline more of the Eminent Domain's design because I'm pretty sure the ED will get a spread in the artbook Depending if we get those assets ready -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 9, 2021, 12:14PM
20. ↑ I go over this in one of the artbook stories, what good does a million dollars do for you if you're in the middle-of-nowhere Afghanistan -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, June 7, 2021, 12:02AM
21. ↑ In the artbook I do actually have some cordium rendered you will instantly go insane by looking at it like cthulu -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, June 19, 2022, 05:45 AM
22. ↑ I forget what the updated kill count from the artbook says I think the REDACTED officially states it's like 3.3 million around -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, July 31, 2022, 7:22AM
23. ↑ I'll probably post, maybe, four pages of the artbook at some point just to get a general read on them, -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, January 6, 2021, 12:43 PM
24. ↑ Art book is waiting for that Arby touch all the artbook stories are done -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 16, 2021, 11:34AM
25. ↑ New art has been and will be commissioned for the art book like all things related to project wingman it is experiencing feature creep -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 30, 2021, 6:56AM
26. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/826242898034556958
27. ↑ There’s only one character illustration in the book atm Currently we won’t display character canon designs -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, April 16, 2021, 11:54AM
28. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/429502867548930048/773063777553481739
29. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/429502867548930048/824698968599691294
30. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/784275297846951966
31. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/782012528293183489
32. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/816016223694618665
33. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/818643762460884992
34. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/818646517845196870
35. ↑ I don't think the world is ready to know the V/X-23's reporting name because that's the page spread after this -Discord statement by Matthew Nguyen, March 9, 2021, 7:51AM
36. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/806654495840403487
37. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/429502867548930048/853044625820221480
38. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/806654495840403487
39. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/429502867548930048/821432553004072961
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 Rahmani, A. (2022, February 2). *UPDATE 15: Live Orchestra Announcement! - Road to V1.5 - Future Projects*. *Kickstarter*. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rb-d2/project-wingman/posts/3036687
41. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/311334325402599425/780569944571904010/950211916528226344