"Unlocking the Universe" - Doctor Falconer

"Unlocking the Universe" - Doctor Falconer - Part 2

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

- Dr. Stephen Hawking

Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

This Friday is a little bittersweet because my parents, who have been visiting from Canada for the past month and a half are leaving tomorrow. We've had such a wonderful time with them, and my kids have adored having them too!

Now, let us turn our attentions back to Stephen Hawking...I mean Doctor Falconer, or Chief Engineer Boros, as he's known in my Space Station Zero crew.

In Space Station Zero, a Chief Engineer is a souped-up version of the Engineer who is only available to be taken on my ship type (Exploration vessel). He has +1 Intelligence and Reaction (both of which will be very useful for disabling bombs and any other tricks the Space Station might try to throw at me).

To further improve his chances of success in these tests, he has an ability called "Bypass", which, once per challenge, allows him to reduce the target number on such a test to zero - allowing him to auto-pass!

His second ability, which he shares with the regular engineer, is Weapon Tuning. Like the scientist's ability that we saw previously, this allows the Chief Engineer to improve one weapon in the crew for the whole challenge. Not too shabby. Hopefully I get some good weapons!

Overall, I'm pretty happy with this miniature. I probably could have desaturated the yellow a little more to make it look more industrial, but I did achieve this to an extent with the oil stains and areas of chipped paint (which you can see best on the back and right side of the model in the pictures above).

Bon voyage to my parents, and I'll see you back here next Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Reading: Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Watching: Beef (season 2)

Next Week:

Boros' underling...

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