According the "Starcom Series Bible", Bob Anders is a Sergeant, not a Lieutenant. Also, why would a Battlecrane (read: Star Wing) pilot be driving a Laser RAT (or any other Astro-Marine vehicle)?
Evidently, Anders received a sudden promotion and/or transfer between episodes. Either that or, more likely, writer Michael Reaves didn't do his homework.
Evidently, Anders received a sudden promotion and/or transfer between episodes. Either that or, more likely, writer Michael Reaves didn't do his homework.
Getting caught in a sandstorm - especially one serious enough to force the abandonment of a major excavation - might be (and, in real life, has often been) fatal. Yet Bob Anders' primary concern is that the storm might foul up his Laser RAT's instruments, thus getting him and the young Griffin siblings lost.