Ike Eisenmann: Cub Jones

Quotes 

• Victor Vector : IN the year 2038, a World sSuttle mission was hit by a huge meteor shower. The crew managed to evacuate, but they weren't safe yet. The meteor shower would continue for a week, and the lifepods could only support the astronauts for forty-eight hours. A rescue mission was deemed impossible. But one pilot from the World Air Force volunteered. Yasu had been training with computers since he was a boy, and his Gamma 2 space fighter was controlled by brain sensors. The brain responded directly to his thoughts. It proved too fast to be handled by physical means alone. After years of training, Yakamura could withstand twelve Gs.

  Cub Jones : [Whistles]  Wow. That's *three times* as much as *I* can take without blacking out.

  Victor Vector : With a plane that maxes out at 17,000 miles per hour, it takes, the right stuff to be able to outfly meteors incoming at four times your speed.

  Cub Jones : So he pulled it off?

  Victor Vector : Well, yes and no. After he saved the astronauts, he went back into space to retrieve an alien lifeform the astronauts were bringing back to Earth.

  Cub Jones : You mean Starflyer, his space parrot?

  Victor Vector : Yep. But that's where even Yakamura's phenomenal skill couldn't hold up. The Gamma 2 was out of control, burning up on reentry, communications lost. And like yourself, Cub, Yakamura was beamed into the Justice. And Yakamura became the first Ring Raider from the future.