[General Battuta]

Just wondering about that possibility. I'd always assumed Command was on the Aquitaine, but behavior in Proving Grounds suggests otherwise.

It'd make that last transmission - "This is Allied Command, signing off. Godspeed, pilots."  - rather more poignant. Rather like FS2's equivalent of "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!"

[Blue Lion]

I assumed he was in a central command station away from the frontlines. I would assume in a mass evacuation of a system, people like him wouldn't be there.

[Rodo]

Assuming "command" is that black guy? don't know about that... but If it was, the command center is always far away from the front lines, so no, they wouldn't be in Capella IMO.

[General Battuta]

Possibly. It depends on the latency of communications through jump nodes. Command may need to be in the same system (which brings up the weird issue of why Command follows Alpha 1 around, but hey, it's a game.)

[Dragon]

He might have coordinated the evacuation though, nobody saw the destruction of an entire star coming.
Prehaps he decided to buy some more time and get some transports free for civilians, just like the captain that goes down with the ship if there are not enough lifeboats.
I think he wanted to make sure that all civilans will be evacuated, then when supernova started he knew that he won't make it out.
If it was like that, the tone of the last transmission would fit the theory of heroic sacrifice.
Also I don't think he was from the central, but rather from a local in-system command (Capella was fairly important, so a command post located there would have some generals and admirals on board. It just happened to be close to GD, so nebula ops were most likely controlled from there.).

[Woolie Wool]

I don't really think it would be accurate to call him "Command". He speaks for Command, but Command itself is a panel of senior officers somewhere else, probably in Beta Aquilae. It's quite possible that Lt. Baldy died in Capella; a communications officer isn't exactly a VIP in most militaries.

[Blue Lion]

But where would he be? In a station somewhere? On a ship? It was an evacuation. They were basically sitting with their fingers on the buttons waiting to close everything down.

[Woolie Wool]

Probably on a ship trying to stay as far away from the battle as possible while still being in communication range. Someone has to stay behind to coordinate the evacuation.

[Dr. Pwnguin]

I tend to think of it as one guy having cloned himself multiple times and placing a clone in every populated system.

[Mongoose]

I'd assume that "Command" was based off of 3rd Fleet HQ in Capella, which was evacuated in the mission "Dunkerque."  I don't see any reason why he'd stick around after that, since communication through intersystem nodes does seem to be just about instantaneous (see: FS1's "Good Luck").  I always took the "Godspeed" line to just be referring to the player, since there was no guarantee that you'd be close enough to the node to save your ass.

[Droid803]

Doesn't 3rd Fleet HQ play the command messages for that mission?

[ShadowGorrath]

It does. So, yeah, Command was on the Messana, IIRC.

[Colonol Dekker]

You see all the FS2 commands in the mainhall.
 
So I postulate they're all on the Aquitaine.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Command is an all knowing presence transcending space and time. 

All be it a pretty stupid one.........

[TrashMan]

Command probably has several communication officers in each system that relay their commands.

I can understand why [V] only used one head ani for it - for familiartiy. Frankly, I believe having a WIDE head ani pool to select from could improve the atmosphere significantlly.

[headdie]

like some here i always assumed he was a CIC type officer on the Aquitaine though that falls apart when you have the same CIC officer while based off the Psamtik and Memphis so i dont know.

maybe subspace communications allows the officer to be based at 3rd fleet HQ so got evacuated and was operating from the Messana, also perhaps to go between systems you need an active subspace node so the god speed and command signing off was because the node was going to be sealed soon anyway

[Pred the Penguin]

Alpha One's personal comm officer to command?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Command that we see in-game is probably the Options guy in the Aquitaine's mainhall.

[ShadowGorrath]

So why would you get Command's messages from the 3rd Fleet Command station in Dunkerque, using the same head ani and voice?

[Dilmah G]

The Command that we see in-game is probably the Options guy in the Aquitaine's mainhall.

Dude, they look nothing alike!

I think the whole concept is inconsistent, since our BlackMan appears everywhere. But I think the statement in Battuta's post by 'Command', confirms that he's on Third Fleet HQ ("...This is Third Fleet HQ...").