HA! I told you so!

Hmmm

I guess they need to go and Retcon the RSF. Two missions, defeat the Future Freedom Phalanx BAB is there. The final mission is Defeat Statesman and the Freedom Phalanx. For the final mission, it is implied. For the other mission, it's pretty clear that he's in, in the Future.

Based on the title of the last mission, it is easy to assume that BAB is in and States is not.

Better get Aeon to work writing.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

I thought all of the Surviving Eight that weren't Phalanx members got invited to the Phalanx after the Rikti War. I don't know why I thought that, but I thought it was part of the lore somewhere.

Personally, I think BAB should be a member of the Phalanx. It's not much of a retcon if everyone thought he was anyway, and if you don't want to retcon it, have him officially invited after the events of Issue 21 and the destruction of Galaxy City, which force him to come out of retirement.

But I say retcon it. It was retconned anyway in CoV with the stated missions, and nobody complained, so why not just accept it?

Sadly, this is just another instance like so many others where even the Rednames don't really know the lore of the game that they're writing.

I don't really WANT BaB to be a member of the Phalanx, but if we were to base the "truth" strictly on the evidence available inside of the game, you'd have no choice to but say "Yes, he's a member of the Freedom Phalanx."

Do I understand that somebody using the handle of Protean is in charge of managing the story nowadays? Maybe it's time to have a sit-down with this person and have him sort out the lore in the game and start making a project out of making the known lore organized and accessible for the sake of both players AND devs.

I say keep BABs out of the Freedom Phalanx if that's the case! Rewrite those missions!

Have him be that really good ally who you think would be a FPer but isnt!

Look, I hate to be the one that brings this up, but you do realize that you're asking them to write the only minority out of the Phalanx, right? I mean, without him, the Phalanx is 100% white.

All this BaBs talk is making me miss his presence on the forums

Huh... I never thought he was a Phalanx member... at least not a full-time member. Like many Heroes of the City, I thought he was a reserve member.

So does this make him "more" or "less" likely to be the one WHO WILL DIE?

And speaking of places where BABs is apparently included in the Freedom Phalanx in NPC dialogue, Commander Murat in the RV Hero base says:

"You are not alone in this fight, hero. The Freedom Phalanx and even Statesman himself is here for support when needed. "

Huh, I just always kind of assumed that he was a FP member from how he always seemed to be hanging around with them. It was only reinforced in my mind by how he's a Praetor in Praetoria. One way or another, I'd say the writers have some tweaking to do.

I have an arguable one from Positron himself, who designed the Badge system in Issue 2:

The Brawler badge is part of the Freedom Phalanx Reserve Accolade, and refers to Back Alley Brawler in its text. The badges in this set appear to be intended to refer to Phalanx Members. Interestingly enough, there is no badge to represent Numina or Citadel, and instead, one represents Ms. Liberty.