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Commander McLane can look back to a long and successfull career in a German TV-series of the sixties, which brought him something like a cult-status among German SF-addicts. Serving in the Space Patrol ('Raumpatrouille') as captain of its flagship, the 'Orion', he mastered many an adventure, technically sometimes way ahead of the crew of the USS Enterprise, whose escapades were aired at roughly the same time; the series was especially famous for the use of ordinary household items, like plastic mugs, irons, etc., as props on the ship's bridge.
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Commander McLane can look back to a long and successfull career in a German TV-series of the sixties, which brought him something like a cult-status among German SF-addicts. Serving in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raumpatrouille Space Patrol ('Raumpatrouille')] as captain of the fast cruiser 'Orion', he mastered many an adventure, technically sometimes way ahead of the crew of the USS Enterprise, whose escapades were aired at roughly the same time; the series was especially famous for the use of ordinary household items, like plastic beakers, electric irons, etc., as props on the ship's bridge.
  
 
==Rebirth in the Ooniverse==
 
==Rebirth in the Ooniverse==
  
Commander McLane came into being again at 2084004 under the Pseudonym of 'Jameson', but quickly was restored to his original name. His famous ship, the 'Orion', however, had been lost in the maelstrom of time and was replaced with an ordinary Cobra III. So his quest for becoming famous again and regaining a decent ship started. Now, at 2084800, about two-and-a-half years later, he is a proud member of the Imperial Courier Owner's Club and can again look back on an impressive career with a killcount nearing the 9000-mark and a little over four million credits in the bank. Currently in Galaxy 5, he has two major objectives. On a short-range timescale he is hoping to gain a piece of equipment that may be helpful for his further undertakings, and on a medium-range timescale he is looking forward to an exciting career as an assassin. For the future that lies beyond that, considering his financial and reputational background, he may be reflecting either one of two major options, namely an early retirement, continuing to fly his Imperial Courier only for leisure reasons, or starting another quest for [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Raxxla Raxxla].
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Commander McLane came into being again at 2084004 under the Pseudonym of 'Jameson', but quickly was restored to his original name. His famous ship, the 'Orion', however, had been lost in the maelstrom of time and was replaced with an ordinary Cobra III. So his quest for becoming famous again and regaining a decent ship started. Now, at 2084800, about two-and-a-half years later, he is a proud member of the [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Courier_%28Oolite%29 Imperial Courier] Owner's Club and can again look back on an impressive career with a killcount nearing the 9000-mark and a little over four million credits in the bank. Currently located in Galaxy 5, he has two major objectives. On a short-range timescale he is hoping to gain a piece of equipment that may be helpful for his further undertakings, and on a medium-range timescale he is looking forward to an exciting career as an [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/The_Assassins_Guild_OXP assassin]. For the future that lies beyond that, considering his financial and reputational background, he may be reflecting either one of two major options, namely an early retirement, continuing to fly his Imperial Courier only for leisure reasons, or starting another quest for [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Raxxla Raxxla].
  
 
For the time being, however, his progress in any of his career activities is slowed down, mainly due to other activities that require a lot of his time and will be described in the next section.
 
For the time being, however, his progress in any of his career activities is slowed down, mainly due to other activities that require a lot of his time and will be described in the next section.
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Commander McLane is also known as one of the major contributers of the [http://aegidian.org/bb/index.php Oolite Bulletin Boards] (currently holding position 12 among the most prolific posters) and takes even a little pride in having been able to contribute some of his thoughts to the community. Among these are [http://oosat.alioth.net/?q=node/88 externalviews.oxp], that fixes some issues with the custom views of the ships of the original set and will be included in a coming Oolite distribution itself, and [http://oosat.alioth.net/?q=node/93 Anarchies.oxp] (up to now in version 0.1), which will see its final release (hopefully) soon.
 
Commander McLane is also known as one of the major contributers of the [http://aegidian.org/bb/index.php Oolite Bulletin Boards] (currently holding position 12 among the most prolific posters) and takes even a little pride in having been able to contribute some of his thoughts to the community. Among these are [http://oosat.alioth.net/?q=node/88 externalviews.oxp], that fixes some issues with the custom views of the ships of the original set and will be included in a coming Oolite distribution itself, and [http://oosat.alioth.net/?q=node/93 Anarchies.oxp] (up to now in version 0.1), which will see its final release (hopefully) soon.
  
Other quests of his include, but are not limited to, the work on some other OXPs (WIP), bug-squashing activities in recent versions of Oolite, and tasks like [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3777 Understanding commodities.plist] or the more occult features of quaternions.
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He is working on some other OXPs, which are still very much work-in-progress, but one day hopefully will see the light of the world under the names of [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2979 equilibrium.oxp] and ghosts-from-the-past.oxp. He also has spent some thoughts on [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3256 variations of the economy in the game], which may eventually lead to specialevents.oxp.
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Other interests of his include, but are not limited to, [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=3 bug-squashing activities in recent versions of Oolite], [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3296 requesting ever more methods, keys and commands for scripting], and more complicated quests like [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3777 Understanding commodities.plist] or the more occult features of quaternions.

Revision as of 08:07, 25 September 2007

Youth and early TV-existence

Orion1.jpg

Commander McLane can look back to a long and successfull career in a German TV-series of the sixties, which brought him something like a cult-status among German SF-addicts. Serving in the Space Patrol ('Raumpatrouille') as captain of the fast cruiser 'Orion', he mastered many an adventure, technically sometimes way ahead of the crew of the USS Enterprise, whose escapades were aired at roughly the same time; the series was especially famous for the use of ordinary household items, like plastic beakers, electric irons, etc., as props on the ship's bridge.

Rebirth in the Ooniverse

Commander McLane came into being again at 2084004 under the Pseudonym of 'Jameson', but quickly was restored to his original name. His famous ship, the 'Orion', however, had been lost in the maelstrom of time and was replaced with an ordinary Cobra III. So his quest for becoming famous again and regaining a decent ship started. Now, at 2084800, about two-and-a-half years later, he is a proud member of the Imperial Courier Owner's Club and can again look back on an impressive career with a killcount nearing the 9000-mark and a little over four million credits in the bank. Currently located in Galaxy 5, he has two major objectives. On a short-range timescale he is hoping to gain a piece of equipment that may be helpful for his further undertakings, and on a medium-range timescale he is looking forward to an exciting career as an assassin. For the future that lies beyond that, considering his financial and reputational background, he may be reflecting either one of two major options, namely an early retirement, continuing to fly his Imperial Courier only for leisure reasons, or starting another quest for Raxxla.

For the time being, however, his progress in any of his career activities is slowed down, mainly due to other activities that require a lot of his time and will be described in the next section.

Contributions to the commOonity

Commander McLane is also known as one of the major contributers of the Oolite Bulletin Boards (currently holding position 12 among the most prolific posters) and takes even a little pride in having been able to contribute some of his thoughts to the community. Among these are externalviews.oxp, that fixes some issues with the custom views of the ships of the original set and will be included in a coming Oolite distribution itself, and Anarchies.oxp (up to now in version 0.1), which will see its final release (hopefully) soon.

He is working on some other OXPs, which are still very much work-in-progress, but one day hopefully will see the light of the world under the names of equilibrium.oxp and ghosts-from-the-past.oxp. He also has spent some thoughts on variations of the economy in the game, which may eventually lead to specialevents.oxp.

Other interests of his include, but are not limited to, bug-squashing activities in recent versions of Oolite, requesting ever more methods, keys and commands for scripting, and more complicated quests like Understanding commodities.plist or the more occult features of quaternions.