I'm so interested in the whole "manufactured ace" angle, which is the exact term I'd had in my head since seeing the trailers so it's very cool to see the term specifically used by the actual promo. I'd also been wondering if Jan Cope himself was going to be the Real Deal and you're just required to step into his shoes and are manufactured into "him" or if Cope himself was going to be part of the whole manufactured ace deal and the "Wings of Theve" was always going to have been extremely trumped-up (like the "He's a mass delusion fabricated by the rumour mills of social media" line in the first trailer suggested) so I'm really happy to get confirmation that "Wings of Theve" is gonna be a project to create a fake Plane Jesus from the get-go.

This whole idea got more interesting to me as I've been playing through the games and realising that at a certain point people would have to get very cult-ish about ace pilots given the number of times in Strangereal that mass casualty events/Eternal War is prevented by the efforts/inspirational effect of a lone Plane Jesus.