Difference between revisions of "Matthew Cobb"

Spensa was given a non-pilot related exam to make sure she would not be accepted at flight school (DDF). She however stayed and answered [[Jorgen]]´s empty exam. Cobb reviewed it and after talking to her, he gave her a First Citizen pin to help her get in. usingHe had to use his status and political position for this to happen. {{book ref|Skyward|6}}

He met his new class and made sure it was clear to his students that he was not up for jokes,. heHe takes training very seriously as he understands many of them will die or not graduate. He obeyed orders from Ironsides including sending his new class into the battlefield after just one day of training. {{book ref|Skyward|6}}

When Morningtide and Bim died, he intended not to talk about it and workworked them hard to forget. When he saw the discomfort of the team, he tried to give a comforting speech, but instead, he unsettled them. He said: “I feel like a munitions man, reloading artillery. I stuff you into the chamber, fire you into the sky, then grab another shell”. This unsettled them more and Spensa jumped in with a better speech ofabout aiming for the sky where they are now. AfterwardsAs soon as she finished, Cobb just asked them to stop wasting time and put their helmets on. {{book ref|Skyward|20}}

After some more training, battles and many questions from the team on Krell tactics, Cobb openedshared towith them some confidential intel on both the Krell, the planet and history. Not much to go on, but itenough didto help the team to understand more about them and the possibility of intelligent machines, which reminded Spensa matched toof MBOT. {{book ref|Skyward|27}}

He also let them know the fights used in the simulation are modifications of real battles, this one in particular was the Battle of Trajerto and it was used to explain that if they needed to choose between Alta and Igneous, the second one is more important. They had to destroy Alta on that particular simulation. This gave Spensa the idea of looking for the Battle of Alta on the archives. {{book ref|Skyward|27}}