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Christopher "Maverick" Blair, The Heart of the Tiger, the Savior of the Confederation, is the player's character throughout much of the Wing Commander
computer game series. He also appears in the Heart of the Tiger and Price of Freedom novelizations. He was nicknamed "Bluehair" by Origin Systems in reference to his most notable physical feature. Throughout the series Blair was portrayed as competent and cool-headed, though not unemotional, with his 'rebellious' cockpit moniker assigned him as an ironic reference to his Boy Scout personality.

Col. Blair was played in Heart of the Tiger, The Price of Freedom, Prophecy, and Academy by veteran actor and Star Wars star Mark Hamill, originally brought in to play Maniac. In the 1999 movie, set earlier in the series' history than the games featuring Hamill, Lt. Blair is played by Freddie Prinze, Jr. Neither of them have hair that is anywhere near blue.

Personal Biography

In Wing Commander I, Bluehair is a calm, handsome fellow who rarely speaks (see silent protagonist). Despite his lack of volubility, he rises steadily into the ranks of the TCS Tiger's Claw, eventually leading his flight wing to numerous successes. When the Claw moves into the K'tithrak Mang sector to deal with a Kilrathi command post, however, his number comes up: with the sole exception of a few pilots who had been transferred to other ships, and Bluehair himself who is out on patrol, the Claw is lost with all hands; no one can confirm how. Bluehair's flight data recorder picks up odd signals that appear to be Kilrathi fighters with cloaking devices, but it is damaged beyond repair when he engages them; Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn, one of the up-and-comers in Confed ranks, thinks Bluehair is lying to cover his own treachery, demotes him to Captain and exiles him to the backwater Caernavon Station. Bluehair is widely branded the "Coward of K'tithrak Mang" and reviled throughout the Confederation.

Ten years later, Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi rolls around. Bluehair is still on Caernavon, but when the TCS Concordia, Tolwyn's new flagship, jumps in-system and is ambushed, Bluehair singlehandedly rescues it. Cognizant of the need to keep the best pilots on the front lines, Tolwyn shifts Bluehair to active service aboard the Concordia, where he serves alongside a number of old friends from the Claw: Jeannette "Angel" Devereaux, Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka, Etienne "Doomsday" Montclair, defected Kilrathi pilot Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas, Zack "Jazz" Colson. New to the roster is Dirk "Stingray" Wright, enthusiastic and brash. James "Paladin" Taggart drops in on occasion, but Todd "Maniac" Marshall is far away doing testing on some new fighters. To dampen the mood, however, a saboteur is on the Concordia, striking materiel and personnel. In his time aboard the Concordia, Bluehair is able to finally record incontrovertible evidence of the Kilrathi Strakha Stealth Fighters, uncover and defeat the traitor, destroy the K'Tithrak Mang outpost and avenge the Tiger's Claw, and start a romantic liaison with Angel. He is also re-promoted to Colonel by a grudgingly respectful Tolwyn. More ominously, he gains the personal attention of Kilrathi Crown Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka; he is eventually given the Kilrathi warrior name "Heart of the Tiger".

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