Well, I'm now the proud owner of the WC3 novel, End Run, and Fleet Action, to go with my previous copy of Freedom Flight- I absolutely love used bookstores! I'm pretty certain I'll have a fair number of questions as I go through them. I'm starting with WC3, and early in it states that Maniac and Blair hadn't seen each other for "years". Now, the Battle of Terra was 6 months ago, and sometime before that, they had seen each other in SO2. How long was the gap between those events? The changes Blair notes in Maniac seems somewhat dramatic, and he even thinks that whether Maniac can command a different squadron would have to depend on how much he's changed- even though Maniac hadn't changed much in 10 years between WC1 and SO2... personally, I'm surprised Blair would look out for such differences.
There's also talk of an autopilot keyboard during the first dogfight, which I can't recall seeing from any cockpit views (although I always preferred to drop the cockpit and look out without obstructions). Are there any other references to such a thing in the series, or is it something we only see used once for flight randomization, as Blair used it?
There's also talk of an autopilot keyboard during the first dogfight, which I can't recall seeing from any cockpit views (although I always preferred to drop the cockpit and look out without obstructions). Are there any other references to such a thing in the series, or is it something we only see used once for flight randomization, as Blair used it?