I don't see why it would be out of reach, especially with all the strides The freelancer 2 mod is making with model inclusions... all it would take is a gentle nudge and some pleading, and they'd possibly round out the remainder of the ships from the eras.(probably not many left to do.)
Quatro:
Not too far-fetched, though. Jazz worked together with the mandarins, if I remember right(probably not) to ruin our hero's day... and Hobbes was only truly turned from "Gotta save my homeworld" to "Reprogrammed to act like an ape-lover" in the novel and console port... granted, it was the original intention. but it wasn't the driving core of the plot. WC2 seemed (to me, at least) to be Blair's chance to redeem himself, and to get to the bottom of the bombings, shootings, and missing flight recorder data. And to blow up a station. Hobbes was just kinda sprung on ya towards the end, and wasn't touched on in too much detail, even in the console port.
I agree with you that it'd be really impossible to guess what someone else(EA and any potential designers) would be thinking. And yeah, Jazz's conspiracy paled in comparison to Tolwyn's... but Tolwyn WAS smarter, after all.
Quatro:
Not too far-fetched, though. Jazz worked together with the mandarins, if I remember right(probably not) to ruin our hero's day... and Hobbes was only truly turned from "Gotta save my homeworld" to "Reprogrammed to act like an ape-lover" in the novel and console port... granted, it was the original intention. but it wasn't the driving core of the plot. WC2 seemed (to me, at least) to be Blair's chance to redeem himself, and to get to the bottom of the bombings, shootings, and missing flight recorder data. And to blow up a station. Hobbes was just kinda sprung on ya towards the end, and wasn't touched on in too much detail, even in the console port.
I agree with you that it'd be really impossible to guess what someone else(EA and any potential designers) would be thinking. And yeah, Jazz's conspiracy paled in comparison to Tolwyn's... but Tolwyn WAS smarter, after all.