A "gambit" is a term from the game of chess, a risky opening move with high potential return.

A2: Gambit was created by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee. It is noted that Gambit's physical appearance was apparently designed by Steve Gieger and was drawn by Mike Collins in his first story.

A7: There is finally an official answer, and it is "no". The X-Traitor turned out to be Professor Charles Xavier, as the entity called Onslaught. The first pages of the book Onslaught: X-Men feature Jean Grey sending the very message that Bishop received in the future. However, for a long time, Gambit was the only real suspect.

A8: The first appearance of the Witness is in UXM 287. In this issue, Bishop confronts the Witness about the death of the X-Men since he was the last person to see them alive. He appears again in the XSE limited series, in issues of Bishop: the Last X-Man and Gambit #10 where he sends the mysterious Momentary Princess back through time. to who he is, the Witness is a character of high stature in the future who comes from Bishop's original timeline.

A10: This has yet to be disclosed. The idea of the 3rd Summers brother was first mentioned in XM 23, when Mr. Sinister says to Scott Summers (aka Cyclops, leader of the X-Men): "--But I care enough to wish you and your brothers to be protected from this illness". The plural of brothers is noted by Scott, and Mr. Sinister says he meant his brother Alex.

A18: You don't know about it? There was a Gambit ongoing series that ran between 1999 and 2000. Unfortunately, it was lost in a series of line-cuts that were designed to streamline the X-Books in general.

A19: It's a stereotype that Cajun men are charming, suave ladies' men. Gambit certainly conforms to that stereotype. He enjoys the company of women, and they enjoy his company. On a deeper level, Gambit has a fear of abandonment and therefore commitment and wants acceptance from those he likes and admires, certainly because of insecurities, possibly because of the loss of his parents especially since he never truly regained a mother, and perhaps because of the way he was raised.

Look on the P: drive (public on soecs-nas), there are folders there for Fluent, Gambit, and Flowlab documentation respectively.

The documentation provided by Fluent is actually quite good, so it is a very good place to start. Fluent also provides tutorials and documentation on the fluentusers site, which is open to everyone with a (full) license. Without a full commercial license, it is possible to use the tutorials given at studentfluent, or you may be able to register to use the user services center through other channels (e.g. through the university program). There are also some good tutorials available at Cornell.

MC -- Both. But since I inherited a situation where they'd been split up, I'm not going to revert to the status quo just automatically and immediately. I do want to give them a chance to meet up, though. And it's going to happen soon.

A12: That's unclear. In X-Men 8, the first issue we see Belle, he states that she is his wife, not his ex-wife. And later, during the Gambit LS, not only does he call her his wife "Bella Donna - my wife, my love!" but Candra also mentions that he goes from his wife (note the current status here) to his mutant girlfriend (Rogue) like a lovesick puppy. While Gambit has talked about his relationship with Belle in the past tense, she is always referred to as his wife, never his ex-wife.

A13: The Gambit character in X-Men: The Animated Series is based mostly on the comic book character. However, the history and supporting characters are slightly different from the comic books and should be considered separate from the comic book universe. This FAQ deals solely with the comic book version of Gambit and the X-Men.

MC -- Iceman and Cannonball are brought to the fore very dramatically in #201-#203. All I can say about Bobby is that what we've done with his powers so far is the start of something bigger, and that we're also going to be focusing very strongly on him as a character.

A3: We were first introduced to the man known as Gambit in the late summer of 1990. His first appearance continuity-wise occurred in Uncanny X-Men 266. Due to different release dates, we first caught glimpse of him in Uncanny X-Men "Days of Future Present" Annual 14, which took place right after the events in Uncanny X-Men 266-267.

A4: This is a little confusing since Gambit has referred to himself as "an X-Man by default, not desire." (Note that this is probably another case of Gambit covering up the truth about his real feelings, as the team and the Dream clearly both mean much to him.) There has never been an official welcoming ceremony or issue where someone states "welcome to the X-Men, Gambit" His induction into this merry band of mutants was somewhat obscure. Strictly speaking he was never invited to join.

A9: An External is a mutant who is immortal. Since it was stated that there are only 12 of them, and all are accounted for, it is unlikely that Gambit is an External. Also Externals do not age much after reaching adulthood while the Witness was shown to be quite old in his first appearance. He also could have been on some type of life sustaining equipment since he is seen surrounded by a glow, although he later appeared without it.

A17: Before there really was a second Gambit limited series, many people believed it existed in the guise of the Rogue LS. Since the Rogue LS contained Gambit as a supporting character, plus the Assassins Guild and Candra were involved, some people have given it the name of the Gambit LS II.

Q: I'm trying to mesh a geometry but I'm getting this message: "check the skewnesses of you face meshes and make sure the face mesh sizes are not too large in areas of small gaps." I checked the skewness and it's low enough. Q: How do I determine what kind of grid to generate? (I would like to known selection criteria between structured and unstructured mesh.)