Officer 1BDI wrote:
Guessing from what I gathered from the new comic, it looks like Hoban was the ship's navigator. On the last page, he seems to have a whole slew of scrolls, which I think are maps (*pokes the compass hanging off his belt*), and it would explain why Linae is blaming him for the weather trouble: she doesn't seem to believe he knows what he's doing.
Well, in my mixed-up/all-bubbles-showing second page, there are several quotes that have "navigator" as a name. If on the normal page these are replaced with Hoban, I'd say he's definitely it. Here are the quotes:
The NAVIGATOR came to assist. But he seemed upset.
Is everyone okay? Good. We need to get back on course. Where's NAVIGATOR?
We searched high and low, but could find no trace of NAVIGATOR. I'm sorry, but that is all the information I have.
The emphasis is not mine. I would guess that they used navigator as a tag until they named him, and made it big to make sure they remembered to sub in the name.
On the MI front, I couldn't see the ship, but the island did look a little fuzzy. The ship wasn't showing up on my HTML map, even when refreshing, but when I switched to flash, it showed up. It was still there when I switched back to HTML (even after leaving and returning). I figured I'd post this in case other people were having trouble seeing the ship. I didn't notice any change in fuzziness before and after the ship's appearance. But I went swimming today, so everything's a little fuzzy...