Board Thread:Unanswered Questions/@comment-3522837-20150516070548/@comment-25045164-20150516113632

111.184.6.142 wrote: 114.121.152.234 wrote: He did survive the laser attack. Note for you all, the laser was aimed at PJ, not Cipher. Otherwise, the laser would've killed Cipher anyway despite his so-called "heroic" attempt since the laser penetrates through the aircraft. The laser did NOT hit the cockpit. It hit way behind it. What happens after that is unknown. Either he ejected and survived or failed to eject and crashed with his aircraft. Now you say it...it didn't hit the cockpit, true.

And no, the TLS was aimed for Cipher. PJ wasn't in the path of the laser until he turned to block it. If it wasn't for him, there would be no mission 18 and awesome Zero BGM and nolstalgia for us. Unless you take over as PJ. The laser did punch through PJ's plane in an instant. So, it might've been futile to block it for Cipher. Thus, it could be one of a few things:

1. Both Cipher and PJ flew left but the latter didn't make it in time. So, Cipher got out of line of fire but that's not the case for PJ. (This one is quite unlikely since Cipher seemed to do almost nothing to evade. Things might've been confirmed if it weren't for camera shake)

2. The laser shot didn't mean to hit anyone until PJ decided to break left. Poor guy taking a stray shot.

3. The shot was meant for PJ as Pixy's means to say "get the -- off I need to have a mano a mano battle of philosophy with my buddy".