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What do you want to know about Coffee MacGregor? He can be very hard to approach, because he allows himself few friends. I suspect this is because he's lost so many in his travels, and he's more than cautious about who he trusts or allows to get close to him. Trust me, I tried for two years. We got along very well, but it always felt like there was a side of him he kept to himself, like there was something he was afraid to tell me. The love was there, but it couldn't compete with whatever keeps Coffee doing what he does. I can tell you though, that he is the most thoughtful and caring man I've ever known. -Gina Prescini

 

 C. E. MacGregor is the most hard-headed son of a bitch that ever didn't get tossed out of the ISC. Once his mind is made up, you can't tell that boy a damned thing. I will say that he's the first man you'd call when you need a tough job done. He's one to have with you in a fight, too. He's pissed me off more times than I can count, but I trust him. MacGregor's a good soldier, and the Solar Alliance could do with more like him. -Gen. Perry Donovan

 Major MacGregor? Oh, Christ! He's got balls 'til Tuesday, mate. Mind like a steel trap, and pissing adrenaline. He's not one you want to cross, believe me. Still, he knows how to keep a crew in line without a harsh word. I've seen him calm a battle worn squad with whispers, while under heavy fire. One has to see this bloke in action to believe it. He's amazing. Drink you under the table too. - Alan Baleston Carter

 

Luis Royo

Coffee MacGregor? That bastard left me high and dry in a deal with some very nasty people. I barely made it out of there alive, which is more than I can say for several close associates of mine. If I ever see MacGregor again, he'll be just so must disrupted plasma. He is the biggest F'ing liar in charted space. He and his frigging Space Corps think they can lay down their law anytime, anywhere. Well, some of us have business to do, with no time for his style of self appointed universal policing. He and his God damned gestapo think they can put a net on me? I'll see them in Hell before I let them take over my territories. - Jenna Blackburn

 Oh, he's quite a piece of work, that MacGregor... mean as a snake, but you can tell he fights crying like a baby when he loses a crewmember. He'll joke like a hooligan, but I've never met a more serious leader of fighting troopers. Rank means almost nothin' to him. I've seen him treat buck privates as equals, and talk back to brass like they were spoiled children. He's just got a way of always being right that saves his ass every time. I wouldn't let him marry my daughter, but I'd gladly ship out with C.E. MacGregor, anytime.- Eric Rhunsteen

 

Luis Royo

 Well, if you can get him to loosen up for a minute, a woman could easily fall in love with Coffee, but I swear he's got some kind of bi-polar disorder. One minute he'll have you laughing your ass off at some story from his past, then suddenly he'll go to brooding over "things he can't talk about". It's really weird. You'd just have to know him to undersatnd. One thing I can tell you is that he's no bullshitter. If he tells you something is true, you can bet your life it is. I'm sure it happens, but I personally have never seen him be wrong about anything. He's almost scary in that respect, because he''ll order a course straight into a meteor shower, or some other certain doom, and come through without a scratch. I don't really understand him, but I trust him. - Kim Velascana

 I'd like to know why a search team has never been sent to find Coffee MacGregor and his team! This isn't just "some guy", it's the Smoking Astronaut for Christ's sake! He's done more for the Solar Alliance than anyone in the ISC, ten times over. Anyone believing he's dead must not know the man. I'll be damned if I'm going to accept his MIA status and leave it at that. I know he's out there. - Roberta Kinoshita

 

 I had already resigned myself to death when Major MacGregor's ships arrived to save us. The outpost on Gavin IV had been under steady attack, but when his ISC troopships came into scanner range, the bombardment fell silent. If his battle group hadn't been patrolling our sector, we'd all be dead or captured now. It's hard to believe some the stories they tell about the Smoking Astronaut, but after spending time with him, I have no doubt to their validity. - Chandra Pelegupta

 Very soon, MacGregor will come to know the wrath of The Syndicate, and the only smoking he'll be doing will be vapors rising from his roasted cadaver! Just because he's fighting out-system now, don't think we've forgotten one millicredit he's cost us. - Titus Coldwater