Do I play as a woman admiral?

[i_nive]

^title^, cause store page suggests so. It will break the immersion for me...

[Steve]

snowflake alert.

[Shards]

You play as you. Cain is your commanding officer

[i_nive]

Originally posted by Shards:

You play as you. Cain is your commanding officer

Hmm, could be even worse. It's a Battlestar Galactica thingy, I guess(yep, lore at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Cain ).Thanks for clarification!
Edit: formatting

[i_nive]

Originally posted by PaulFoster:

snowflake alert.

No hard feelings ;-) Will you take the game as a gift? Let's see - I'm sending you a (temporary) friend request.

[katyusha]

Well, you play as a female admiral, when you are a female admiral. Where is the problem? Only some members of steam are women and most of us do not serve as admiral....

[Autumn Renegade]

How is it immersion breaking? This is based off of the 2000's reboot of Battlestar Galactica in which men and women both served equally in the Colonial military and after the Cylon betrayal via Baltazar the President of the 12 Colonies was a woman.

There's plenty of games out there where you have no choice but to play as a male, what's wrong with having one where you play as a female? In a strategy game I honestly don't see how gender even plays a role in anything unless it gives me more slots to build a bigger military stack or something.

[GHawkins the Grey]

Actually, you're playing as Rear Admiral Cain's second in command. If you identify as a woman, you're a female colonial fleet officer in charge of all combat forces of the Colonial Fleet. If you identify as a man, you're a male colonial fleet officer in charge of all combat forces of the Colonial Fleet.

And I see no reason why playing a female commander would be immersion breaking for anyone, considering that the Adrmial Cain at the time of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies was just that, an Adrmial, while Commander Adama was, you guessed it, Commander. Everything on a battlestar is unisex, so why not the promotions?

[Anapoda]

I'm always amazed at how silly people can be.

[AlanEsh]

Originally posted by i_nive:

^title^, cause store page suggests so. It will break the immersion for me...

lol, you overthink the situation.

Originally posted by PaulFoster:

snowflake alert.

Perfect :D

[Drake]

Ugh, that shrill voice was grinding in the store video, and I thought it was just a voiceover to show off the game. Wouldn't be able to actually sit and play with that voice piping in, it was hard enough to sit through 2 minutes of the store video with that grinding in my ears.

[ForrestFox]

OP must have fun playing Tomb Raider :D (My 2cents irrelevant post)

[Imagination]

Originally posted by Anapoda:

I'm always amazed at how silly people can be.

Not me. I'm a tad shocked when they AREN'T being silly.

[Benzin]

Wait, the admiral Cain in this game is the same admiral Cain in the series (the one that gets shot in the head by a Nº 6, commands the Pegasus, etc. )???

That couldnt be could it? maybe i got it wrong, but this game is timed 40 years Before the series. And the Cain in the series is what? in her forties? that means she would be a small child in the games timeline!

[Autumn Renegade]

Originally posted by Benzin:

Wait, the admiral Cain in this game is the same admiral Cain in the series (the one that gets shot in the head by a Nº 6, commands the Pegasus, etc. )???

That couldnt be could it? maybe i got it wrong, but this game is timed 40 years Before the series. And the Cain in the series is what? in her forties? that means she would be a small child in the games timeline!

According to the Wiki Helena Cain was 9 years old when she witnessed her parents dying in an attack during the First Cylon war where she only survived due to the treaty being signed right when she was about to die.

According to all the info on her she rose very quickly through the ranks due to a combination of skill and political ties until her death 40-ish years later in the Galactica series, which would have put her at approximately around 59 years of age at time of death, give or take a year or two.

The First War lasted approximately ten years.

So for the sake of gameplay let's assume that the developers added roughly 10-15 years to the age of a character who's age was only established in the Razor series. That would put her new time of death in Galactica Series at between 69-74, give or take a few years.

Factor in that Colonials possessed the technology to create massive space warships and the hyper-intelligent Cylons and it's no stretch at all to assume that via a combination of more advanced medicine befitting of the society and healthcare products as well that Ms. Helena Cain was still alive and "Middle-Age to Twilight Years" looking by the time of her death in the Galactica series.

I don't think this game counts as official canon, especially considering how the unification of the Colonies was directly tied to the planet Caprica. That being said however, the fact that they managed to keep lore mostly accurate to within a 10 or less years discrepancy and the creative license to make an RTS out of the Battlestar Galactica series is pretty good work considering how many times game studios just throw the lore completely out the window.

[Benzin]

So it is her???

hmm, i dunno mate. It still doesnt make much sense. In the razor thing, she is a little girl at the end of the war. Skip 40 years to when the cylons return and blow eveything up (the series), and it adds up ok. By this time she is in her mid/late 40s as shown in the series.

But how can she be grown up in this game, if the game is timed at the start of that war (the first war, where at the end of it she is a child)?
This feels like a major plot hole!

And besides, i dint like that ♥♥♥♥ in the regular series, and i absolutely HATED her ass in razon. And now she is my C.O. in this game???
man, i wish they had chosen someone else.