Thanks LOAF, I missed that update.
It would have been interesting to play through an extended WC4, with Blair starting serving as part of a ground garrison on Nephele. I would love to see what that would have added to the story in terms of the missions Blair flew and his conversations with other pilots while serving on Nephele. I wonder if they would have kept the Lexington and Intrepid segments of the game the same length though or would have shortened them if the segment on Nephele had been used. The PSX version of the game is four discs and the PC CD-ROM version is four or five (I think), this would have added another disc or two if the rest of the game had remained the same.