[Phantom Hoover]

I think viewing command as a narrative conceit is a lot less awkward than viewing him as some sort of AI spokesman.

[NGTM-1R]

I've always assumed command is a fighter-direction officer.  He's far too emotional to be an AI or quasi-AI system, and we see no evidence that such systems exist anywhere else in the GTVA; one would think that kind of technology would have endless battlefield utility, rather like a combination of how Halo and Mass Effect treat their own shipboard AI tech.

[Haji]

I'm with people who think that command guy is just a middle man.

C'mon it's not like fleet admiral contact with every fighter squad on a regular basis, every mission, day by day.

I think pretty much everyone here agrees he's just a middle man, but for whom? The three options I see are fighter operations for Aquataine, command for 3rd Fleet of which Aquataine is the flagship or last but not least the very central command of the GTVA. My personal opinion is that since he's representing someone who can move a lot of ships, including (if my memory serves) warships from other formations such as Vesudan vessels from the 13th Battlegroup, he represents the very central command. This may seem strange, but to be honest, how many battles can be raging at the same time? A dozen? Two dozen? For central command with FTL capabilities, who likely employ hundreds if not thousands of people, it would be easy to keep tabs on each and every combat area at any given time. That's my personal opinion of course.

As for the original question. If the man really represents a central command, he and his superiors are likely far behind the lines, maybe in Delta Seprentis or Beta Aquilea. If he's just a fighter ops operator on Aquataine he also survived as Petrarch (who commands Aquataine) is narrating the final cinematic, which means he and his ship (and any operators on that ship) has survived. If the man represents the command of the 3rd fleet as a whole, then my assumption would be that he was on Aquataine, as the destroyer is supposed to be the flagship of that fleet. Overall the chances he and whoever he represents did not survive are low.

[Luis Dias]

The AI theory is immediately negated when you arrive at the menu screen and see Command Guy standing there right in front of you. And given it's the Aquitaine, he's in it. It is weird to watch a different Hecate being commanded about in Bearbaiting by this lone black guy sitting on a chair in another Hecate, and small other inconsistencies that seem to give this avatar a lot more power than should be the norm for someone who is just an officer in Petrarch's flagship, but I always thought of those as both 1) for narrative minimalism sake, 2) budget / management sake.

[The E]

Yeah, I think it has more to do with the limitations of FS2's production cycle. If it had been a Wing Commander game, we probably would have had individual controllers for each of the squadrons we go through during the campaign.

[Colonol Dekker]

We see him in the aquitaine main hall.

[Mars]

I am pretty sure that they only modeled five or six human faces for FS2. Command guy does get to order around destroyers on the regular, you'd think if he was a liaison for high ranking officers he and Petrarch would be on the same page.

[redsniper]

He's ONE guy sitting in an office in Beta Aq, commanding EVERY GTVA fleet asset ALL the time. He's just that good.

[perihelion]

We see him in the aquitaine main hall.

We are all GTVA Command.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Obviously he is part of the GTVA's Cloned Corp, same as Epsilon 1.