Christopher "Maverick" Blair is a fictional character in the science fiction franchise Wing Commander, first appearing in the video game Wing Commander in 1990, although he was only given a canonical name years later.
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17 Facts About Christopher Blair
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In Wing Commander III, Wing Commander IV, Wing Commander: Prophecy, and the animated television series Wing Commander Academy, Christopher Blair was played and voiced by veteran actor and Star Wars legend Mark Hamill.
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Christopher Blair was one of the best received characters in PC gaming during the 1990s.
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Christopher Blair has no official name for the first two installments of the series; the player is allowed to personalize the character's name and call sign.
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In Wing Commander III and IV, the player is still allowed to assign Blair a call sign, but William R Forstchen's novelizations describe him as using the call sign "Maverick".
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Finally, during the course of Wing Commander III, Christopher Blair finds out that he is the game's titular "Heart of the Tiger", and in the Wing Commander IV novelization uses this as a public call sign.
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Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn believes that Christopher Blair is lying to cover his own treachery, finds him guilty of negligence, demotes him to captain and exiles him to the backwater Caernavon Station.
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Christopher Blair is widely branded the "Coward of K'tithrak Mang" and reviled throughout the Terran Confederation.
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Ten years later, in Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi, Christopher Blair is still on Caernavon, but when the TCS Concordia, Tolwyn's new flagship, jumps in-system and is ambushed, Christopher Blair singlehandedly rescues it.
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Christopher Blair is promoted to the rank of colonel by a grudgingly respectful Tolwyn.
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An unstable and vengeful Christopher Blair then leads a wing that is responsible for delivering the Temblor Bomb on the Kilrathi home planet, resulting in the death of the Emperor, as well as Prince Thrakhath and is able to avenge Angel.
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Christopher Blair is entitled to add a new label to his roster: "Savior of the Confederation".
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Christopher Blair remains in the military for the rest of his life, though he accepts a transfer from Space Forces to Navy.
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Christopher Blair is the architect and main proponent of the 'mega-carrier' plan, and is aboard the TCS Midway, the first of the new class, on its maiden voyage, detailed in Wing Commander: Prophecy.
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Commodore Christopher Blair is lost in the action against the Nephilim, missing and presumed dead on a critical mission to assist Casey in destroying the aliens' galaxy-invading wormhole.
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Christopher Blair appears in the Wing Commander Academy animated series, again voiced by Mark Hamill.
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Christopher Blair appears in the Wing Commander novels Wing Commander: Heart of the Tiger, Wing Commander: The Price of Freedom, Wing Commander, Wing Commander: Pilgrim Stars, Wing Commander: Pilgrim Truth, and Wing Commander: End Run .
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