Recent content by star_slayer

figuring out Severin's actor is for plebes. The real question is who played the marines who rescued him? :D Something tells me a lot of those random extras were just walk on Origin employees, although I could be wrong.

Ejection is noted and talked about in the books, but it doesn't happen all that much. It's similar to the games in the sense that a pilot will eject if necessary for the plot, otherwise probably not. It's more horrifyingly dramatic to write about a miscellaneous pilot frying in the cockpit...

well you never know. They may have been wearing super high tech pressurized suits that weren't bulky. It is the 27 century after all (but then why can't they come up with good AI ejection systems? ok, I digress). I find it interesting you mention the cartoon, because they always seemed to be...

thanks for the clarification. I guess I figured technology in the 27th century, namely AI, would be more advanced and sleek, but who can really predict the future? :D The auto eject five seconds after "power/shield failure" sounds like it's got limited utility, if even that. My reasoning for an...

I've always wondered about automatic ejections. I figure if you are a pilot and focusing on other things, you wouldn't want to have to worry about pulling the eject lever too. I do remember reading in "End Run" Bear talking about a system like that, which activated when the shields disappeared...

but what could Confed have done to stop stealth fighters? The argument that the cats want to keep their stealth technology under wraps makes some strategic sense (not to mention taking Blair out of action for a bit). But eventually the Strakha became widespread, and afaik, there were no special...

~~~. somehow, I never really took that cinematic at face value. If the cats could nail the Claw that easily at that point in time, they'd annihilate the Confed fleet and be walking on Terra within a month. on the other hand, I wouldn't put it past Thrakath to waste a few awesome resources on...

yea, I realized the idiocy of my syntax after I posted. Obviously we saw Angel die, so we got those details. I was thinking more about how she was captured, as that might be more indicative as to how she would fare in a fight. For all intensive purposes, being taken prisoner decided her fate. So...

according to the novel, the previous Victory WC before Blair, Col Dulbrunn, only flew on magnum launches. Perhaps Halcyon was similar? Anyway, Dulbrunn got himself killed, which netted the Vic a war hero in Blair. Mwa ha. High ranking officers are not immune to flying when the situation calls...

well Blair had some suspicions after the first mission with Hobbes in the WC3 novel. Maybe the order to not kill Hobbes was a new thing. On the other hand, maybe Blair did figure it out but stayed in denial. Perhaps the order to not kill came and went, depending on what kind of danger he was in...

I don't have too many issues with the way the Hobbes thing is played out in WC3. I woulda preferred they kept his holo message cutscene in the game, as it at least provided some closure. I went after him the first time, not out of "revenge", like the game implies, but because I was so shocked I...