StarCitizen:Steve Colton
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Steve Colton, nickname: "Old Man" is a member of the StarCitizen:UEE Navy. Assigned to StarCitizen:5th Fleet, he serves as flight instructor, holding the rank of StarCitizen:Lieutenant Commander onboard the StarCitizen:UEES Stanton.<ref>Squadron 42: The Morrow Tour (LIVE Version) (Squadron 42: Preview) from 2015-10-10. Accessed 2016-11-05.</ref> His nickname "Old Man" has his origin in his first mission. While the entire crew of his ship was wiped out, Colton survived.<ref>Mark Hamill Interview with PC Gamer, from 2015-11-19, accessed 2016-10-16</ref> He appears in Squadron 42, played by Mark Hamill.<ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Cite RSI</ref><ref>Imdb - Squadron 42</ref>
He served alongside StarCitizen:Randall Graves in StarCitizen:Squadron 118 (StarCitizen:2nd Fleet).
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- "Steve Colton…he’s a grizzled lifer as we used to call them. My dad was in the Navy and he called these guys that were in the service from the moment they left high school until their retirement ‘lifers.’ He’s grizzled. He’s cranky. He’s seen it all." - Mark Hamill about his character.<ref>Mark Hamill talks Squadron 42: Oh how far we’ve come since Wing Commander, pcworld.com, May 14, 2016</ref>
- "The blur between these $100 million dollar science fiction pictures and games, it’s getting so close. I don’t know whether the movies are getting more like games or games are getting more like movies. But almost anything you can imagine can be realized on screen." -Mark Hamill about how far videogames have come.<ref>GameCulture Exclusive: Mark Hamill, Darkrider, GameCulture, January 14, 2010, archived</ref>
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Mark Hamill is mostly known as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, however besides other movies he is also an accomplished theater actor who spent time acting in Broadway, and has voiced various characters including for example the Joker in a number of DC Comics projects, the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, or Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He also voiced the english versions of Colonel Muska in Miyazaki Castle in the Sky and the Mayor of Pejite in Nausicaä.
The first video game which Mark Hamill voiced was Gabriel Knight, published by Sierra Online, as detective Franklin Mosely. He also voiced among others Assistant Director Wilson in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, two Crash Bandicoot games, Goro Majima in Yakuza, Malefor The Dark Master in The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, The Watcher in Darksiders, and Master Eraqus in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts III.<ref>Mark Hamill, Mobygames</ref>
Of particular interest, he played Colonel Christopher Blair in StarCitizen:Chris Roberts video game serie Wing Commander and other Wing Commander projects such as Wing Commander Academy.<ref name=":0">"An AWESOME snippet of the panel with @MarkHamill", @GabrielleOrlita, Twitter, Nov 27, 2023</ref> On Wing Commander III he took a 50 per cent salary cut in exchange for real points. With a $12 million opening day, he thought, "Gee whizz, if I could have movies open like this, I'd actually have a career."<ref>Mark Hamill Answers Your Questions, empireonline.com, 28th November 2019</ref>
Mark Hamill first spent several months working on Squadron 42 in 2015. He then worked on it again in 2016. <ref>"Such jobs stress-Back 2 work on #StarCitizenSquadron42 today w/out a day off Someone has to guard the universe!#Whew", @MarkHamill, Twitter, Jul 2, 2016</ref>In 2023, Chris Roberts told Mark Hamill "we're ready to finish your part". Mark Hamill came back for about two and a half, three weeks to finish working on it. When Mark Hamill asked if he could talk about it, Chris Roberts said yes but don't talk about when it's coming out.<ref name=":0" />
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- Mark Hamill voices the Merlin computer in the Wing Commander movie.<ref>"Two Star Citizen cameos to look/listen for: Chris Roberts as a bomber pilot and Mark Hamill as the voice of the Merlin computer!", @banditload, Twitter, Mar 14, 2018</ref>
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