I'm not placing it on you and what he did was a noble action. What I'm saying is that he shouldn't have been there alone to begin with. There's a lesson that is taught to TSF pilots as a portion of their training to fight the BETA. "The most important thing you have on the battlefield is your life, but you can't protect it alone." Any TSF pilot is going to die if he goes off alone without any backup, we trust our lives to our wingmen and they entrust theirs in return so they go off on their own without the others then everyone is put in danger. He had time while the evacuation was underway, he could have asked for help from you or the other teams but he got into a suit and went alone and that's what got him killed. If everyone was engaged fully and nobody could pull away then that's one thing but several of you were able to break from combat and make for the main shaft to try to save him.
As for my comment on the Japanese you might be missing part of the point I was trying to make because I forget that everyone here isn't with the TSF forces. American's, Europeans, Russians, and Chinese pilots will make a push on an objective and if it's too heavily defended they'll fall back and try a different tactic, usually from ranged. The Japanese will charge in and fight in melee with the BETA until they're so tied up they don't think they can get out. Instead of fighting and dying to escape they'll activate a self-destruct system to kill themselves and as many BETA as they can. Instead of using that window to escape their wingmen will charge deeper into the BETA's lines and repeat until the whole flight is gone. That's the "duty" and "endurance" that I was trying to keep you away from.
The most important thing you have out there is your life and you should never give it up easily. I'll fight with my life on the line and someday I'll probably die out there, fighting BETA in a TSF is a terrifying thing kid. What I'll never do is unilaterally decide that my life is worth less than an objective and throw myself to my death without saying a word to anyone. You're young still and new to combat, you've probably been enamored with tales of heroic sacrifice and all that and dream of being a hero. Stop it, get that thought out of your head and don't let it get back in or it'll get you killed.
As for duty kid, I'll follow orders and if I'm ordered to hold a line so others can live I'll hold it, but you better damned well believe that I will use every bit of skill, every trick, and every ounce of strength I have to get back in one piece. That is always your first duty, do everything you can to live.
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As for my comment on the Japanese you might be missing part of the point I was trying to make because I forget that everyone here isn't with the TSF forces. American's, Europeans, Russians, and Chinese pilots will make a push on an objective and if it's too heavily defended they'll fall back and try a different tactic, usually from ranged. The Japanese will charge in and fight in melee with the BETA until they're so tied up they don't think they can get out. Instead of fighting and dying to escape they'll activate a self-destruct system to kill themselves and as many BETA as they can. Instead of using that window to escape their wingmen will charge deeper into the BETA's lines and repeat until the whole flight is gone. That's the "duty" and "endurance" that I was trying to keep you away from.
The most important thing you have out there is your life and you should never give it up easily. I'll fight with my life on the line and someday I'll probably die out there, fighting BETA in a TSF is a terrifying thing kid. What I'll never do is unilaterally decide that my life is worth less than an objective and throw myself to my death without saying a word to anyone. You're young still and new to combat, you've probably been enamored with tales of heroic sacrifice and all that and dream of being a hero. Stop it, get that thought out of your head and don't let it get back in or it'll get you killed.
As for duty kid, I'll follow orders and if I'm ordered to hold a line so others can live I'll hold it, but you better damned well believe that I will use every bit of skill, every trick, and every ounce of strength I have to get back in one piece. That is always your first duty, do everything you can to live.