Was wingman to my son on nearly all you mentioned... Those halcyon days! I still remember watching him hand over the IT core to the departing ship, turn about, leap back to the gun platform to clear a path for the ship to escape and save humanity...and then seeing 'Jester / Joker'?? go down, reappear and rekt his assailant! And then, the ship escaped, and, all alone, He turned and faced the enemy... Classic! I might have got some of that out of sequence- it was some years ago! LOL Anyway, great post, and, well said!