Kyle Maverick
Rear Admiral
Action Stations continued...
The foreword is undated, but is constructed to imply that it was written in the aftermath of WC4, with references to Tolwyn's court martial and suicide. The only problem being that Richards is killed in False Colors, which happens what, a year or so after WC3?
I think the original plan was that in the following books it would be found that Richards actually escaped the destruction of his ship, and had been in hiding, but the death of one of the writers the books went unwritten.