Timeline Stuff

Well... here's the dialogue from the game--

{Video}
Jazz: No I can give you the names of the Mandarin leaders Their Kilrathi contacts. ANYTHING!
Angel: Justice is decided in the court, not with particle cannons.
{Courtroom}
Tolwyn: Lights, please--- Now that we have seen the evidence from the flight recorder--- ---This military tribunal has reached its verdict. Major Zach Jazz Colson, you stand accused of murder and high treason. You are hereby pronounced guilty of all charges. For these crimes, you are sentenced to death.
Jazz: This court cannot condemn me Only history will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. And our history will be written by the Kilrathi.
Tolwyn: Guards take him away

It seems like they show the video, tell him what he's guilty of and then Tolwyn pronounces him guilty <G> (According to the WCI/II guide, Tolwyn sped up the process to bring *Blair* to trial after SM2 under the War Powers Act... presumably the same thing happened here).
 
I agree with Pete. While Jazz' trial wouldn't take long anyway (wartime treason trials being what they are), I think a week would sound reasonable. SO1 should still fit within one week, but this way Blair would get a week of shore leave before having to go back.

What we see in the SO2 intro seems more like the conclusion rather than the entire trial.
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
(He wasn't kept *out* of the BoT -- he was wounded *at* the BoT...)
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Oops. Where does it say Blair was involved in the BoT? It'd sure be interesting to see how a player-controlled Blair would handle all those Hakagas. :)
 
Originally posted by Wedge009
Oops. Where does it say Blair was involved in the BoT? It'd sure be interesting to see how a player-controlled Blair would handle all those Hakagas. :)
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IIRC, there's a comment in the WC3 novel that he took a missile in the BoT, and that's what prevented him from being with the Concordia when she went down.
 
Originally posted by Wedge009
Oops. Where does it say Blair was involved in the BoT? It'd sure be interesting to see how a player-controlled Blair would handle all those Hakagas. :)
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That's a relatively easy question to answer - imagine a massive battle in WCP, with multiple capships and hundreds of fighters. Since the Hakagas were invincible to anything other than torpedoes (and even those were needed in pretty large quantities), the player would be only able to take out a very limited number. One, I think, but I'm not sure.
 
I doubt a player would be able to take one out. These are carriers that could take torpedoes from a whole bomber strike and not go down...

TC
 
I know, but I was thinking in the sense that the battles players fly in are always 'scaled down' in the sense that it is easier for us to fly. As if Casey can manage thousands of kills while his wingmen barely score a few hundred. Just as unlikely, it's not as if we could survive if the BoT was a real situation.

Capships are basically sitting ducks against fighters in the games, but I'm sure they have multitudes of defences against torpedoes and other fighter based weaponry when portrated 'realistically' in the novels.
 
Well, they're only sitting ducks to the main character, it seems like. (Or is that just me?) My damn wingmen never seem to be able to get missiles through, and they don't have the intelligence to remove the damn turrets on capships to keep their torpedoes safe.
 
That's what I meant by a game version of the Battle of Terra being much easier than the 'reality' of the from the novels.
 
Well now, that wouldn't change the fact that you'd probably need more torpedoes than your ship can handle, and without torpedoes you'd be unable to even damage the capship (like WC2/WCP).
 
One oddity I thought worth mentioning.
You have the date of the TC's destruction listed in the text of Hunter's two week furlough, but not in the list of dates. Considering the importance of the TC's destruction, I thought that was a little odd.
 
Originally posted by Quarto
Well now, that wouldn't change the fact that you'd probably need more torpedoes than your ship can handle, and without torpedoes you'd be unable to even damage the capship (like WC2/WCP).
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Alright, 'twas just a thought. Don't pick on me. :) Just look at the poll - it's not just me who wants a chance at a game version of the BoT.

Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
All the way from WC1 to SO!
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Before I even look at today's edition, there's a couple of trivial things I'd like to point out.

1. Milk Run: Part is dated as 2667, I think you meant 2666.
2. There are a few spelling errors: WC2 Gwynedd 1 & 2 - "previosly" -> "previously", WC3N Ch 15 Part 1 - "occured" -> "occurred", and WC4 - "Callmiachus" -> "Callimach(i)us". There a few others, but of course, I assume you'll sort all that out once you do a 'final' version.
3. Am I right in thinking that this is a 'skeleton' for the war era of the timeline?

BTW, methinks you'll have to start calling it something other than a WC3timeline. :)
 
Just one thing...

Pity about 'SM1.5' and SM2 dates mixing... is it really plausible for the Claw to have jumped back and forth between Firekka/Corsair/Charon and Tartarus/Cairo/Anchorage/Jakarta?
 
Re: Just one thing...

Originally posted by Wedge009 ]Pity about 'SM1.5' and SM2 dates mixing... is it really plausible for the Claw to have jumped back and forth between Firekka/Corsair/Charon and Tartarus/Cairo/Anchorage/Jakarta?
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Completely and utterly implausible. But the alternative means coming up with an explanation for how Bossman could die for a third time... :)
 
Yay, I'm back.

Frosty is htmlizing the skeleton for me. Woo!

Remember that SM1.5 is different -- you're a different player character, and most of the missions are no-wingman 'secret' missions (which you're not allowed to tell the other Tiger's Claw pilots about <G>). They require some things from SM2, though... the captured Dralthi, Bossman dying, etc...

I'll fix the various spelling errors when the HTML version is done <G>

3. Am I right in thinking that this is a 'skeleton' for the war era of the timeline?
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Among other things <G>

You have the date of the TC's destruction listed in the text of Hunter's two week furlough, but not in the list of dates. Considering the importance of the TC's destruction, I thought that was a little odd.
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Well, it's a skeleton -- basically it defines whatever we do in the game or what we're reading in the novel. Other stuff will be in the full timeline...
 
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