tilinelson2 wrote:Poor "you" in the story: in the hands of an emotionless and wicked android.... If I was the tester, I´d resign my job immediately....
Ah, let's see now that I have a minute to review this review.... Firstly, the "you" is supposed to be you, because I wanted to see if I could make the reader a character. Yep, you are the copilot, and yes you don't have any special training at this point. Yes, I imagine that most people did quit, which is why you'd be brought in instead of a trained person. To choreograph that dogfight, I actually pulled up a simulator on my computer, hopped in a spaceplane (the one in my avatar, not my sig), and flew the entire test flight myself to find out what happens- the
spin out of control part was actually a result of me being unable to perform a more elegant loop at the speeds attained, and I was too scared to continue playing around when I finally regained control, so I stopped it there.
Lastly, Wren-P struck me as childish rather than emotionless- I actually partially based him off of myself, although he deviated a bit from the mark by the end of the sequel to this story,
Hydrofoil.