Is this a Major Edmond cameo?

-danr- said:
A little Standoff glitch while we're on the subject of status updates:

In the Chapter 1 mission where the Lionheart, moves in on the Pirate Base - try asking one of the Marine Landing shuttles for a status report... you get a sound clip straight out of Prophecy, and it's a bit irrelevant!

Bradshaw: "What's your status?"
Marine LC: "I've got his Signal ID, but it's pretty weak, stand by!"

I think that sound clip is from the SAR mission of Maniac's wingman mid-way through Prophecy. Made me smile to hear it again. :D
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I'll check on this when I have a chance. I'll add it to the bug list.
 
-danr- said:
Cool man, I'm not bitching it's a great game!
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Don't worry these are the things we want to find. The guys want to make sure Ep5 fixes every bug we can find and this also allows me to fill up Quarto's inbox with bug reports which he just loves. :p
 
Quarto said:
And isn't it kinda from the wrong service, since (presumably) she serves in the Navy? :)
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Even stranger, why do Blair, a pilot, get to work as a comm officer? Why did ISS request a veteran pilot - in the middle of a war - to use him as comm officer?
 
Delance said:
Even stranger, why do Blair, a pilot, get to work as a comm officer? Why did ISS request a veteran pilot - in the middle of a war - to use him as comm officer?
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Maybe the ISS was short-staffed or had limited fighters. Pilots probably took turns at all kinds of other non combat duties when it wasn't their turn to do a patrol.
 
Delance said:
Even stranger, why do Blair, a pilot, get to work as a comm officer? Why did ISS request a veteran pilot - in the middle of a war - to use him as comm officer?
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I thought he was a patrol pilot.

My thoughts were that Caernaven was a backwater outpost and was thus undermanned. Probably maintained by a skeleton crew, so everyone had to perform multiple duties, some days blair would fly, others he'd man the switchboard.

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Damn, AD beat me to the punch!
 
AD & Frosty both beat me to the same conclusion, that Caernarvon was was an all-hands on deck kind of affair with a rotation of duties between staff.
 
Quarto said:
And isn't it kinda from the wrong service, since (presumably) she serves in the Navy? :)
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Well, the Confederation seems not to be very pedantic on these matters, what with Lt. Commander Blair and Devereaux and all. So that at least does not let me raise an eyebrow. Not anymore at least ;).
 
As per WC4N and other sources, Blair does have a degree in Electrical Engineering. Which, apparently, is enough to qualify one for a comm officer, which was what he was also doing, initially, after defecting to the UBW, even if his practical purpose was to play "defensive tackle" (to borrow from American football) for Sosa while she crunched the comm data Eisen collected.
 
Um... for those of us unfamiliar with American football... what do you mean? That Blair flew in defence of the Intrepid?
 
Defensive tackle is what covers the quarterback (the throw-y guy) so the other team doesn't turn him into a strawberry smear on the ground, figuratively speaking.

In this case, I meant he was covering for Sosa, so she could decrypt the copied messages without people hassling her for every need.
 
Death said:
Defensive tackle is what covers the quarterback (the throw-y guy) so the other team doesn't turn him into a strawberry smear on the ground, figuratively speaking.

In this case, I meant he was covering for Sosa, so she could decrypt the copied messages without people hassling her for every need.
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Hmmm... seems a bit of a waste. What was Maniac and Catscratch doing at this point?

Oh and who was the Squadron Commander on the Intrepid? Was that Blair?
 
frostytheplebe said:
Hmmm... seems a bit of a waste. What was Maniac and Catscratch doing at this point?

Oh and who was the Squadron Commander on the Intrepid? Was that Blair?
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Maniac and Catscratch would have been flying. It's been a while since I read TPOF so I forget if it mentions exactly what they were up to.

Panther and Hawk IIRC were squadron commanders and later Blair became WC then acting-captain, but my memory may be off.
 
I seem to remember the game implied that Hawk & Panther were squad commanders (possibly because they were both Colonels) and Blair became acting Captain when Eisen went back to present the BW case to Confed HQ.

By the way does anybody have any information on Captain Dominguez? The cutscenes reveal that he'd served alongside Eisen in the 'Venice offensives' but can't find much else about this guy.
 
Maybe the ISS was short-staffed or had limited fighters. Pilots probably took turns at all kinds of other non combat duties when it wasn't their turn to do a patrol.
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Very limited; I think the Wing Commander I & II guide says Blair is one of only four (?) pilots assigned to the base... an installation that can support up to 400 fighters.

Even stranger, why do Blair, a pilot, get to work as a comm officer? Why did ISS request a veteran pilot - in the middle of a war - to use him as comm officer?
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I think you're misrepresenting the situation somewhat - they didn't ask for a comm officer... he does say he flies the occasional patrol (and does a lot of paperwork). But in reality, it's normal for pilots to spend much of their time doing less glamorous tasks -- only some tiny portion of a fighter pilot's life is spent on pitched air-to-air combat. (Communications officer seems a reasonable duty for a fighter pilot, too, for the same reason that astronauts serve as CAPCOMs when they aren't in space... they 'speak the language' better than anyone else. The Concordia seems to use, or at least allow, pilots in this role too.)

(Of course, the real reason is that they had a limited amount of disk space for graphics and a comm room set that had to be included in the story... so it was invoked wherever possible.)
 
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