The first mate of the Black Rock

* Magnus Hanso is described as a ship owner who loved to go to sea. The blast door map references that Hanso lies buried on the Island. The natural assumption of command によって a first mate in the event of the death of a ship's captain. Richard Alpert's preeminence among the Island's original Inhabitants
* Richard is a senior member, but not the leader, of the Island's original inhabitants. When the crew of the Black Rock and others aboard found themselves, without warning, stranded well inland on the Island, a period of uncertainty that could have led to mutiny...