Quote from: Local Trouble on May 16, 2016, 07:36:10 PM
Has it been rigorously fact-checked?
For the most part, although there aren't a whole lot of facts for the book to mess up since a lot of the content is quoted near-verbatim from the movies.
One of the details I kinda wish had been a bit more vague was whether or not the Alien3 creature came from a dog or an ox. Like it starts out all vague and I thought that was awesome, but then by the time you get to Star Beast, you've got Morse specifically saying it was a dog, and exclusively referencing content from the theatrical cut of the movie. I think it would have been a lot more interesting to use Morse as an unreliable narrator and really play around with the notion that there are two versions of the movie, with mutually exclusive content. "Reports are inconclusive if the Alien gestated in a dog or an ox...", "Reports are inconclusive on the fate of Golic...", etc.
Edit-- one other thing while it's on my mind, I watched the youtube video of the artist drawing the APC cutaway (both the video and the artwork are super-cool) and in the making-of video, he references some schematic artwork showing things like cutaways of the tires and the functioning of the transaxle. I don't remember those schematics being in the USCM Tech Manual (although it's been a while since I paged through it), so where are they from?