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Star Brigade maybe in 2020
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09-22-2021, 05:13 PM
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... but Sci-Fi's transition from laser / directed energy expert to "starship captain" is a bit hard to swallow!
More than just a bit, I'd say.
I used to like the character Sci-Fi in 1986, and even didn't mind what they were doing with him in 1991, but unfortunately the Space Fighter Pilot career change for the 1993 and 1994 versions of Sci-Fi as part of the Star Brigade subset were really ruining that character for me.
Where you might have had a problem with the line from his file card which read, "An obvious genius with lasers and and radically designed instrumentation, Sci-Fi became the first recruit to pilot a Starfighter...", I had a bigger problem with the very next line which read "He handles the jet's controls with confidence, even at quasar velocities exceeding the speed of light!".
This Star Wars "make the jump to hyperspace" stuff really doesn't work very well in a military themed science fiction genre. I never expected Sci-Fi to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, and would prefer he work on lasers and military technology in space.
His 1994 file card stated "On a recent mission he let an entire squadron of Cobra Blackstar pilots chase him so close to a black hole, that when he pulled an inverted G-force dive, they became caught in his jet wash and sucked into inescapable oblivion...".
With his technology and laser skills, there is so much that Sci-Fi could do for the Star Brigade, but instead they went all Tony Scott with some 1986 "Top Gun" film. Inverted dives in outer space, and jet wash tricks... ugh!
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