Christopher Blair

Homeworld:Earth

Born:2637

Current Status:Missing In Action

Most Recent Rank:Commodore

Appearences:WC1, SM1, SM2, Freedom Flight, WC2, SO1, SO2, WC3, WC4, WCP
Major Campaigns: Vega, Thor's Hammer, Firekkan, Enigma, Ghorah Khar, Bombing of Kilrah, Border Worlds Conflict, Nephilim Engagement
"But I was going to Tosche station to pick up some power converters!"(whoops :))

A little information taken from The Definitive Guide to the Wing Commander Universe

Hero of the Kilrathi War, saviour of mankind, Kilrathi minor-deity, custodian of the Border Worlds, there is little that hasn't been said of this pilot.

At the Academy, Blair maintained his high level of achievement with his usual quiet competence. He soon earned the callsign of "Maverick", an ironic reference to his flying style, which was anything but. Flying with analytical, by-the-book precision, he distinguished himself as one of the top pilots in his class, attaining a new composite flight score record of 97.4, and becoming the only pilot ever to achieve a perfect score in Navigation. Upon graduating, he was assigned to the TCS Tiger's Claw, then engaged in the Vega Campaign.

Now on assignment onboard the TCS Tiger's Claw in the Enyo System, Second Lieutenant Blair found himself flying alongside the Tiger's Claw's legendary flight roster of pilots. But even among such distinguished company, Blair quickly made his mark. Winning engagement after engagement in the Vega Campaign, he rose rapidly through the ranks, attaining the rank of Major by the time he and Major St. John blew up the Kilrathi Starbase in the Venice System. His successes in Operation Thor's Hammer and the Firekkan Crusade shortly after confirmed that Vega had been no fluke. He was a rising young pilot who was potentially the best in the Terran Confederation Navy.

Immediately afterwards, the claw recieved a distress call from the Goddard Colony and proceeded to the Goddard system. However, it made a detour to take out an enemy capship, and as a result arrived too late to save the colony. That action did not only cost the lives of the 250,000 colonists, but would also cost the lives of practically everyone aboard the Tiger's Claw at that present point in time, and would almost sink the career of Confed's greatest pilots. Greatly angered by the tradgedt, the Tiger's Claw pursues the Kilrathi strike force responsible for the atrocity into enemy territory, where they are ambushed by an Exeter class destroyer captured and used by the Kilrathi. Eventually, reconnaisance ships locate the dreadnought ship suspected of carrying the prototype mass-transit weapon which so easily nuked Goddard. In a stuning display of deep space logistics and fighting skill, the Claw is able to cut of the Strike Force's suply line a reinforcements from coming through, effectively strading it, and a patrol led by Blair is able to take out the Sivar dreadnought.

Following the Vega campaign, Blair is promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and assists when the Kilrathi defector Ralgha nar Hhallas surrenders his Fralthi class Cruiser and its crew to the Confederation. As a result, he and the Tiger's Claw disrupt the Sivar-Eshad ceremony, which causes severe disruptions to the entire Kilrathi fleet.

In 2656, as the Claw is on attack approach to K'Tithrak Mang, the Kilrathi base in the Enigma Sector, Blair pursues mysterious "stealth" fighters while out an a lone patrol. Whilst out on patrol, the Tiger's Claw is ambushed by similar Stealths and is destroyed. Due to his survival and lack of an alibi, Blair is charged with desertion, demoted to Captain, and transferred to a hole-in-the-wall system where he serves off Internal Systems Security base Caernevon Station for ten years, not seeing any combat during that time. Through a weird string of events in that system, he saves the Concordia when it appears in the system retreating from Kilrathi fighters, it's aunch decks damaged and unable to launch its own fighters. Blair and a wingman save the Concordia, and he gets swept up in the Enigma Sector conflict, and gets to serve aboard the Concordia, where he recieves a lot of stick due to his reputation as the "Coward of K'tithrak Mang", although he is reunited with urvivors of the Claw, Spirit, Paladin, who is in Covert Ops, Jazz, who is regarded as the Concordia's top pilot, and Angel, who is the Concordia's Wing Commander and whom Blair eventually becomes involved with.

During the time he is aboard, it becomes known that there is a spy about. Though Hobbes (Ralgha nar Hhallas, who has become a Confed fighter Pilot) and Blair are frequently suspected, it turns out that the real traitor is Jazz, who turns out to be a Mandarin who gave the Kilrathi the Claw's coordinates ten years previously and wanted everyone aboard dead in rvenge for their failure to save his brother who was on Goddard when the colony was destroyed. He would have succeeded was it not for Maverick, and his ability to beat Jazz in ship to ship combat. He eventually returns to K'Tithrak Mang and destroys the Kilrathi HQ there in an act of Courage and high quality flying. During that attack, he engages and defeats Thrakhath, the Kilrathi prince and the Empire's finest pilot, who held a special hatred for him.

A hero and full Colonel again, Blair serves a year in a Paladin's Special Operations flight group, ridding the the Enigma Sector of the Kilrathi and destroying the internal Mandarin threat.

Soon after, Blair recieved a transcript from Prince Thrakhath, and learned of the Princes personal vendetta with him and his high status amongst the Kilrathi.

Shortly before the battle of Terra, Maverick is grounded by injuries sustained from an enemy missile. He is transferred to other duties for six months, and early in 2669 he is abruptly sent out looking for the Concordia which had not reported in for some time. He discovers the wreckage in the Vespus system and oversees salvage of the ship.

A month later, not knowing of his girlfriend Angel's whereabouts, he is assigned to the Victory as its Wing Commander where he serves faithfully, flying once again alongside pilots including Colonel Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas, Todd "Maniac" Marshall (a Tiger's Claw surivor and ace Pilot). After having `saved Locanda IV from a Bioweapon assault, the Victory is assigned to escort the Behemoth, a project led by Admiral Tolwyn,a superweapon capable of destroying planets. It is to be used to destroy Kilrah. However, due to a mole, it is ambushed by bombers and stealths and destroyed. He almost deserts the Victory when immediately after he is challenged to a duel with Prince Thrakhath, who baits him over a transmission recording him executing the captured Colonel "Angel" Devereaux in a extremely violent and un-Wile E Cyote manner.

With the Behemoth destroyed, it is the turn of Special Ops, led by Paladin, to unleash its own doomsday weapon, the Templar bomb, a missile which, when fired at a precise location in a planet's tectonic plates, causes major earthquakes which literally shake it apart. Having rescued from the Kilrathi a scientist named Dr. Severin, who was recquired to complete the bomb. Blair gets back into te action and gets interested in Chief Tech Rachel Coriolis, who is more than happy to return the favour. Blair is assigned to drop the Templor bomb on Kilrah whislt the entire Confed fleet stages a mass assault to distract the Kilrathi. Taking three wingman and the the Excalibur figters, Blair encounters and eliminates Prince Thrakhath at last, ho as fighting alongside Ralgha nar Hhallas, the mole responsible for the Behemoth's destruction once his identity overlay was deactivated by Thrakhath's trigger transmission and codephrase 'Heart of the Tiger' Anyway, he dies, so there. He then destroys Kilrah, killing the entire population of the planet, all of the Royal Family, its Lords and Liege-Lords, Imperial Guard, civilians and all the works. However, the blast from the planet damages his ship, which is brought into one of the remaining Kilrathi ships, the massive Kilrathi Dreadnought. In an amazing display of respect and change of heart, Melek, the highest officer left in the Kilrathi Empire, surrenders to the "Heart of the Tiger", confrming that without a omeworld, the Kilrathi could not battle on due to the honor lost.

After the war, Blair hoped to retire in peace. He took up farming on the frontier planet of Nephele II. Yet he was called back into service when the Union of Border Worlds began to declare its independence. Serving shortly aboard the newly commisioned Lexington, he soon defected to the Border Worlds when he began to question the legality of the Confederation's orders, along with Maniac, Captain Eisen, Vagabond (who shortly afterwards was killed) and Catscratch Taking command of the BWS Intrepid, he pursues numorous leads until discovering the true source of the conflict between the Border Worlds and Confed -- the supposedly inncoent Admiral Tolwyn . The Intrepid races after Tolwyn and The Vesuvius to Earth and Blair takes a new Dragon Fighter and rushes down to the planet, eliminating Black Lancer Seether, and confronts the Admiral before the Confederate Assembly after the Admiral proposes that the Confederation should go to war with the Border Worlds. He is able to present enough evidence to keep war at bay and to bring Tolwyn up on charges, who later hangs himself in his cell before his execution. Following the crisis, Blair retires from active duty to train a new generation of pilots.

However, 9 years later in 2681, Blair is instrumental in the development of a new Confed "SuperCarrier" whilst in R&D and gains the rank of Commodore. He serves aboard the first of these ships, christened TCS "Midway". Shortly after the beginning of its first Tour-of-duty, the Midway encounters an unknown "bug" race, which seems bent on dominating or destroying everything whilst saying as little as possible. Blair is captured by the aliens whilst investigating on board a starbase with a squad of marines, and is later rescued after the aliens had finished experimenting with his brain. However, later on the Midway trys to destroy the wormhole gate being set up by the aliens in the Kilrah system, to enable an invasion fleet to enter terran space from a vast distance away. The pilots escort a marine attachment to the gate's superstructure, here they attempt to knock out the shield generators on the seven cooling towers of the gate to enable Lieutenant Casey to knock them out and cause the collapse of the gate. However, only 6 gates can be successfully taken out before the marine forces are depleted and have to pull out. Blair then flys to the last tower and, thanks to his knowledge of the aliens from his capture, is successful in taking out the final tower's shields. However, he is ambushed by an alien, who prevents Blair from escaping before the structures collapse. The section in which Blair was in remained fairly intact from the explosion and may well still be alive if he got the alien before it got him.

Moreso, in a recent interview taken from http://www.wcrevival.de/news/news.shtml: Hey Wing Commander fans. Today we have something special for you. Did you ever ask yourself what really happened to Blair at the end of and after WCP? Well today we have something for you that comes as close to an answer as possible. We members of the #wing-commander IRC channel on DALnet had a little interview with Mark Day, producer of WC 4 ?? years ago. We decided to put this info online today. He was interviewed by the chief-operator Eagle-1.