Alan Carter
a.k.a.
Summary
Details
- Expert Eagle pilot, and the go-to pilot in many
missions.
- Is an
officer, based on frequent inclusion in
command conferences
or other key discussions, and on
his having temporary command
of Alpha on at least one occasions where the commander and his
second-in-command (Paul or Tony)
were off-base or out of commission
(thus, Alan is third-in-command).
- Attends command conferences
in at least the following (probably very incomplete list):
"Earthbound".
- Called by first or last name roughly equally.
- Generally a genial person, very well-liked,
but also military as well.
Willing and ready to go into combat (Eagle, hand-to-hand, etc.).
His actions are usually sensible on such occasions,
but left to his own devices,
is known to sometimes has a
"shoot first and ask questions later"
tendency.
- From Australia.
- Good with children:
Jackie Crawford (who is, unbeknownst to everyone,
Jarak in disguise --
"Alpha Child");
Etrec (in
MOA).
- Plays soccer or rugby? (check "Archanon" and/or BOW1)
- Likes to sing. (in
JTW and
MOA, at least).
- Suffered a number of crashes,
all(?) apparently due to non-pilot causes.
- Displays intense loyalty towards Alpha and the Commander
(perhaps another personality/military-based trait?),
usually a strength, but (verify:) occasionally a drawback when
it goes to the point of blindness.
- Perhaps the sole direct and surviving human witness of the
flaring of the Breakaway explosion
from early, individual, "small"-scale explosions
through chain reaction into massive nuclear brilliance.
Even from high orbit, he has to put up his hand to shield his eyes.
- Rather than turning away from the Moon when he
arguably perhaps had a chance to do so and escape to
Earth,
he stays with the Moon and tries to make contact
with Alpha, repeatedly, until successful,
then lands on Alpha.
Whether or not he could have made a successful
return to Earth if he turned at the start of
Breakaway is not known,
but it apparently did not enter his mind to try.
- His grandfather was a footballer who played in a major game
where Australia beat Great Britain in 1963.
Alan has the game ball, signed by Harrison,
a friend of Alan's grandfather.
Injured
- RATM: Knocked unconscious after
Eagle 3 is hit by a
force field generated by Tritonian probe.
Eagle 3 crashes on the Moon.
His co-pilot, Donovan, is killed.
- MOA: stunned by apparent
force field around the chamber holding
Pasc and
Etrec.
In pain, falls unconscious, comes to on site
with no apparent after-effects.
Later, choked and struck unconscious by Pasc, in
TechLab 3.
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