Confused with Vance Richards

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jhwyung

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Ok I got a question regarding that dude, it says in the introduction to Action Stations (the novel) that it was written with help from Vance Richards personal memoirs. But in the last wing commander novel, I forgot the name, but it involves the Kilrathi Supercarrier Karga that he dies in the end when his Destroyer gets jumped.
So I'm a little confused, does Vance Richards die in that novel? But somehow he shows up in later novels alive and well.
Confused
Please help
 
If I'm not mistaken, a novel which never got finished was supposed to clarify that he actually survived that battle. I don't remember the details, but someone who does will probably show up soon and help explain that. :)
 
Tolwyn and Bondarevsky both thought that Richards died when the cruiser (or destroyer? I forget) he was on was destroyed at the battle of baka kar. The now deceased Andrew Keith planned to write two novels to follow false colors. One following bondarevsky as he commanded a group of escort carriers against Ragark and the other about Murragh's quest for the imperial throne. In whichever was to follow false colors I'm assuming it would have been cleared up.

Vance also shows up in TPOF novel as an admiral in the UBW (which is odd I thought he would have stayed with Kruger in the Landreich)
 
jhwyung said:
Ok I got a question regarding that dude, it says in the introduction to Action Stations (the novel) that it was written with help from Vance Richards personal memoirs. But in the last wing commander novel, I forgot the name, but it involves the Kilrathi Supercarrier Karga that he dies in the end when his Destroyer gets jumped.
So I'm a little confused, does Vance Richards die in that novel? But somehow he shows up in later novels alive and well.
Confused
Please help
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Hey, you from LancersReactor? :)

As LOAF tells it, Vance Richards faked his own death to foil Tolwyn's later intentions (supposedly he knew all about Tolwyn's plans for GE and the war with the Border Worlds - he's a spy, after all).
 
Richards also shows up in the WCIV novel, which is set after False Colors.

According to Andrew Keith, he'd have dealt with the situation in a pair of novels set after FC.
 
He only mentioned them to me maybe three times before he passed away...it was right before false colors came out...
 
Is it just me or does the entire WC phenomenon seem a tribute to unfinished stories and unfulfilled vision? Hopefully it also becomes a tribute to undying legacy...
 
Theres more written about WC than you or I even realize, gryphon. LOAF has showed me many, many times about the amount of details left to mesh over each other between games - I doubt that the map LOAF finished could've been done without such information.
 
gryphon said:
Is it just me or does the entire WC phenomenon seem a tribute to unfinished stories and unfulfilled vision?
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It's just you. :) It's because WC is so large and amibitious that there's lots of loose ends. There are also plenty of completed threads as well.
 
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