Talk:Patrick James Beckett/@comment-75.169.239.246-20111222062058/@comment-24.101.21.243-20150107163043

From memory, I DO remember the lower bit of PJ's frontal bit being annihilated by the laser. Maybe it hit the nose, too. If you've been hit by that damned TLS, you'd realize it melts through stuff at about 500x the speed of real lasers, AKA too fast to save yourself.

Sorry. PJ's dead, his body doesn't even remain.

And another thing: Realistically, seeing as his plane was hit from below his canopy, his aircraft would be sliced practically in half. Falling down, it'd probably split up, becoming two F-16 chunks falling through the sky. The altitude that PJ was killed at is what appears to be an average WWII dogfighting altitude, like 3k meters. Really, it'd be sheer luck if the squadron emblem's panel actually survived.. though various WWII planes have had worse with a few bits still intact.

Although.. chances are, if PJ had seen the laser coming at him (which is realistically not possible, but this is fiction, where lasers may as well be bullets), he could pull the handles and bail out before his plane is halved. I didn't see any ejection smoke, but, then again, we also never saw any rockets firing for ANY ace that bails out; Rot 1, Shamrock, Gelb 2, Milosz Sulejmani, and the list goes on. I'll assume ACES got lazy there. Thus, PJ's chances of survival would increase drastically, though he is still M.I.A., despite the fact that, if he had intelligence, his first reaction when he touches down would be "Enable the distress beacon!", thus revealing that he'd be alive, and possible picked up from Avalon, dragged all the way back to Ustio, perhaps Valais. I guess he didn't turn it on or something, like an idiot.

So, honestly, I'm sure he's dead, but I can't say anything for absolute certain. So I'll just say he's K.I.A., even if the game says otherwise.

Or wait, perhaps the rescue crew didn't find him?

Hmm. I dunno.

If any houses were remotely nearby (which there may have been), PJ COULD have been welcomed in, and kept alive till he could get back to Ustio. Unlikely, but possible.

...or, he could be eaten by radioactive wolves.

All that is assuming he even ejected.

Jacking a No-Boundaries plane? That seems ridiculous, he bailed out over woods. It'd take him AT LEAST a few days to even get back to Avalon Dam, and by then, the allied forces would probably have ransacked the place for all it's worth. If he's fast, he may be there just when the salvagers arrive, but I'm not quite certain..

Okay. I'll just leave his fate as undefined.