#rogriss

(Image by Darren Tan, from The Essential Guide to Warfare, illustrating the Battle of Orinda)

I love this image, but the backstory frustrates me. Intense nerdery to follow:

First is that it makes me sad that Areta Bell, who is introduced (and I think only featured in) Isard's Revenge as one of the most daring commanders Wedge knew at Hoth, became a hesitant, wait-too-long commander of the ill-fated Endurance mentioned in the beginning of the Black Fleet Crisis. That didn't seem in character, as well as killing Bell off without cause.

Second, it means that Wedge directly faced Rogriss at Orinda, making the encounters in Starfighters of Adumar feel really wrong to me for a number of reasons

a) It makes no sense to me that Wedge wouldn't do research on Rogriss after the battle, given how badly he was beaten, so the fact that he hasn't thought of Rogriss since the Zsinj campaign doesn't track

b) Wedge feels his career is fine - there's no sense of the loss of such a magnitude as Orinda and the Endurance should cause. This one I could SORT of see as possibly a reason for his underlying unhappiness at the beginning of Adumar, but it's an unnecessary stretch

c) Rogriss is feeling like he's losing badly in Adumar - if he'd been part of such a brilliant encounter as Orinda, where the New Republic was forced to run and lost so much, in a battle as recent as Orinda his feelings of dejection don't make sense. Nor does his demotion from SSD command to ISD command. Plus, it feels like he should gloat over the direct commander of the opposing task force