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Offline CT27

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How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered by the GTVA and what kind of legacy will he leave behind?  Will the soldiers of the Aquitaine miss him?


During FS2, I remember pilots would sometimes critique command as a whole, but not Admiral Petrarch specifically.  So, I'm guessing Aquitaine's people didn't mind him as CO.

 

Offline Darius

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Petrarch's monologue in the ending cutscene suggests he has some degree of oratory skill with an ability to express empathy to those in straits. An educated and sober-headed man.

I'd  imagine he'd be quite popular to officers and crew in his fleet.

 

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
He's not only a thoughtful and well spoken man, as shown by the ending monologues, but the fleet under his command participated in some of the most important actions in the second Shivan incursion. Given the often overwhelming odds, I could see the GTVA giving him some sort of recognition for his service.
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Offline qwadtep

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
His skill strategic innovation in using the Hecate as a rearline carrier in support of other assets was rivaled only by his tactical innovation of losing to Molochs.

 

Offline Darius

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Blame Petrarch for letting the Moloch get close to the Aquitaine, but blame the ship's CO for her anaemic performance against the corvette.

 

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Anyone with Alpha One under their command would be remembered well barring something extraordinary.
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Now that I think about it how did those Molochs jump in so close to the node?
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
And why couldn't the GTVA be bothered to have a solitary cruiser, or reserve squadron to defend their fragile command ship before it was disabled?And in the same breath they send an Aeolus to defend the transport carrying the parts to fix said destroyed. We will never know.

 

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
His skill strategic innovation in using the Hecate as a rearline carrier in support of other assets was rivaled only by his tactical innovation of losing to Molochs.

You work with what you have, and that was more down to the Hecate being a problematic design in subspace war.

Petrarch will be remembered as the Second Shivan Incursion's essential man. He was there at every critical juncture and it was his people who made whatever victories the GTVA salvaged possible.
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Offline CT27

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Think he'll get a destroyer named after him eventually?

 

Offline Kie99

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Think he'll get a destroyer named after him eventually?

Probably not, there's no real precedent for naming destroyers after people in-universe, is there?  The Eisenhower is the only one AFAIK and that went up years before FS1.
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Offline qwadtep

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Think he'll get a destroyer named after him eventually?

Probably not, there's no real precedent for naming destroyers after people in-universe, is there?  The Eisenhower is the only one AFAIK and that went up years before FS1.
Not canonically, I don't think. There are a couple named after historical figures, notably science vessels like the Einstein, but by and large they're either mythological figures or historical ships (Eisenhower, etc.)

BP has the Marcus Glaive, though, so maybe in that continuity.

 

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Think he'll get a destroyer named after him eventually?

Probably not, there's no real precedent for naming destroyers after people in-universe, is there?  The Eisenhower is the only one AFAIK and that went up years before FS1.
Not canonically, I don't think. There are a couple named after historical figures, notably science vessels like the Einstein, but by and large they're either mythological figures or historical ships (Eisenhower, etc.)

BP has the Marcus Glaive, though, so maybe in that continuity.

Fair point, come to think of it the medical ships are also named after important figures in the history of medicine, and there's the Boadicea, although that's never named in game.
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
I know, introduce a Galactic Terran destroyer Petrarch in mods!
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
HELL!  I think Petrarch deserves an entire destroyer CLASS named after him.  Something like the next generation Orion class that can hit hard, take a beating, and still command an entire theatre of flight OPS and warships.
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Yes, and it will be filled with Vasudan design features. Or Shivan? Or Ancient?
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Offline CT27

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
HELL!  I think Petrarch deserves an entire destroyer CLASS named after him.  Something like the next generation Orion class that can hit hard, take a beating, and still command an entire theatre of flight OPS and warships.

How about if the fanmade Icelus class ever got made in FS canon...naming that after Petrarch?  It's supposed to be a better Hecate.

 

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
Could be one of the candidates. And it will appear in either Blue Planet, Inferno or FreeSpace: Reunited (after Shattered Stars is done with).
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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
HELL!  I think Petrarch deserves an entire destroyer CLASS named after him.  Something like the next generation Orion class that can hit hard, take a beating, and still command an entire theatre of flight OPS and warships.

How about if the fanmade Icelus class ever got made in FS canon...naming that after Petrarch?  It's supposed to be a better Hecate.
Doesn't feel hard-hitting enough for my tastes.
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Offline CT27

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Re: How do you think Admiral Petrarch will be remembered?
HELL!  I think Petrarch deserves an entire destroyer CLASS named after him.  Something like the next generation Orion class that can hit hard, take a beating, and still command an entire theatre of flight OPS and warships.

How about if the fanmade Icelus class ever got made in FS canon...naming that after Petrarch?  It's supposed to be a better Hecate.
Doesn't feel hard-hitting enough for my tastes.

Are there any fanmade destroyers then that worthy of the title "Petrarch class"?