I want to know how all of you know that Captain Chaos dies. That's just...not fair. He's...bad-ass! I mean, he was the Shadowlands. Without him...my life is empty and gone, and so are many of my dreams. Damn it! >.< Why did he have to die? And what about anyone else? Do we know if other people died, such as Renraku Fox, Dodger, Fast Jack, and all the other loveable, huggable character's we've come to know and love. This just...damn it! Now I really need System Faliure. I need it like I need a soda. And I really need a soda right about now. *goes to get a soda, damn it*

Its been posted in another SR4 thread that Capt. Chaos dies - I don't see how posting it here spoils that.

Wel, I have yet to read the entire book but the post by FastJack (yes he is still around) at the beginning of "A History Lesson For the Realitiy Impaired" implies that yest Captain Chaos is dead. Specifically:

His death will be avenged. Soon.

I put it here as not everyone had read that topic. But you're right...it's already been spoiled.

KAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHN!!! *shakes his first in the air* Damn that AI...damn him to hell!

Well, like I posted long time before the release, I think Cap Chaos dying is a good idea. I don't like FastJack as his successor, though. That one should have gone under, too.

I like Fast Jack as the successor. He´s never been heavily used but has always been there. He has just the right qualities to be the heavy voice of reason that every neophyte runner listens to.

Which is odd, as FastJack is probably significantly older than Captain Chaos. According to FastJack himself in the history section, he's 71.

A little bit of Leonization (The SOTA name escapes me) goes a long way.

I always asked myself, who the frag is Cap Chaos annyway? Whatever, I feared for fastjack to got blotted out of SR, but I won't shed many a tear for Cap Chaos.

Be that as that may be, opinions and tastes do vary (which is distinctively good), one never knows if a legend returns somehow, somewhere.

We'll see how the official universe will progress and treat our heroes (or villains for that matter).

I am looking for some exciting new twists.

Regards
Daniel

Hard not to feel nostalgia and loss for the guy who prefaced every book and chapter of every book for many years.

Yeah. Who will write the Sourcebooks now ?

Is there still a Shadowland?

If they don't say what JackBNimble was about, I think I'm gonna cry...

The only confirmed Spike Baby i know of is The Dodger.

Capt Chaos probably Hand of God the first crash and could not do so again for the second.

He was around at the first Crash? If yes, he must be as old as Fastjack, so maybe he died because of his high age.

Since Cross died the same day...
Any connections there?

If you are thinking Cross is CC, well Cross suppositly bites it in an aircraft crash. Which sounds a lot different, so unless somebody is telling A Big Lie™, no.

about spike babys, was there not some talk about ethan the scribe and spike babys in tir tarngire? (there are two words i may never get 100% correct, ever. this and some being from beyond the stars in our fav horror game)

Yes, Ehran ran a special house for spike babies. Dodger spent some time there and Sam Verner passed in ever-so briefly. There were at least two other notable characters at the house, at least one I believed to also be a spike baby, but I don't remember any names. No one of import though, unless you go for that sort of stuff (listed in the book, I mean. If Fastjack spend time there, that'd be pretty important.)

Huh guys... Sorry to snap you back to earth but that wasn't Ehran.. That was Sean Laverty...

Aren't they one and the same?

Ehran, Surehand, Aithne, Harlequin, Aina, Alachia and Jenna Ni'Faira, and Laverty aren't spike elves. (Well, Ni'Faira and Laverty may be, I don't know for sure.) They're immortal elves. I realize that most of you know this, but some folks may not, so here it is anyway.

Laverty ran the Xavier Foundation--yes, X-Men, we get it--for spike babies.

Ehran and Laverty are different. You may be thinking of Ehran and Walter Bright Water, who are assumed to be one and the same.

AH would be so ashamed I got them confused.

Sorry, yes Laverty. Ehran made a brief cameo in the same novel, but didn't run the house.

I read the books, didn't especially care for them, and I guess forgot all the important bits. But that's why we have AH, right?

I am dying to read the new book, just to figure everything out.

I am going to be running SR3, too, I can barely justify the cost, but it CC is dying than I might as well sing over my Credit Card information now...

As for Captain Chaos... I hope he went out with a bang, and I hope he transfered himself into a UV host, and I hope... Basically I hope he circumvents death. Of all the characters in the books that I love, I would rather have any other character die besides Captain Chaos.

The hows and whys of the final fate of Captain Chaos, Cross, JackBNimble and much, much more are detailed in System Failure which should be making its ways into stores in the next few weeks.

It' a genetical treatment, which results in younger bodycells, hence prolonging your life. It's around since SR2.

Not who, what. Excert from Dunk's will:

Thank you. It's quite a while since i read Dunkie's Will.

~J