History of F.L.A.G.?

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Mon May 26, 2003 2:31 pm

Could someone provide me with a somewhat detailed history of FLAG and how it came into being and what its mandate was? It'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Mon May 26, 2003 6:30 pm

Oh come one people...someone's gotta be able to help me with this?...

knightdriver · Post by **knightdriver** » Mon May 26, 2003 6:44 pm

well, if you watched the 4 years of the series, you probably know what the rest fo us do! That and I think you need to give people some time to actually answer your post. Some of us work you know and are not online 24/7. Give people time to respond.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Mon May 26, 2003 7:38 pm

knightdriver wrote:well, if you watched the 4 years of the series, you probably know what the rest fo us do! That and I think you need to give people some time to actually answer your post. Some of us work you know and are not online 24/7. Give people time to respond.

That was truly helpful. You didn't actually offer any insight into my post and instead treat me like a 6 year old.

knightdriver · Post by **knightdriver** » Mon May 26, 2003 7:51 pm

Didn't mean for it to sound the way it did. but usually you should give your post a little bit of time to get a good responce. Your second post just sounded a bit impatient.

As for the Foundation. I am not sure how much extra background information is readily available other than what we saw in the series full run.

The Foundation sounds as though it was created by Wilton Knight for the sole purpose of Handling problems that were to small for normal Government agencies (FBI, ect) and to large for Police or local athourities. Becoming a sort of Middle agency, supported by higher authority and overlooked by local ones. It seems it was later deemed by Wiltons Daughter that the foundation was a waist of resources and weighed heavily on the Foundations budget due to Damaged caused by their operative during any specific mission. Later turned out that this wrecklessness saves the foundation from the mistake of closing prematurely. The foundation becomes more like the FBI and is more tightly runned in the future as seen in KR2000 and is most likely the cause of it's downfall or potential downfall, depending on where the series goes from here.

I hope that answers your questions ome and I hope someone can further ellaborate on this further.

KnightR.O.V.E.R · Post by **KnightR.O.V.E.R** » Mon May 26, 2003 8:12 pm

We Know That Devon served with The O.S.E. during WW2.He's British he would not have served the O.S.S. as was stated in the Series. It was during this time he met Wilton Knight. He later help WK build up Knight Industries ( and rebuild it after Elizabeth Knight destoried it.) After Wilton's divorce from Elizabeth, Wilton and Devon founded F.L.A.G. and started developing the classified project K.A.R.R.. During this time Garthe Knight was sentenced to Three Life Terms in an African prison. After K.A.R.R. was deactivated. It was determined that the next prototype should have a pilot. After the death of the first test subject, a new pilot was chosen for Project K.I.T.T., His name was Micheal....

knightdriver · Post by **knightdriver** » Mon May 26, 2003 8:20 pm

I also feel that Knight Industries has a direct tie in with the Government. On his Deathbed, Wilton states to Michael in the pilot after he makes a comment about putting KITT on the market to save lives that they would just take away this project like the others. Now they dont mention throught the series what other projects Wilton was working on. KARR was obviously one of them but I feel there may have been others. Wilton must have developed the Foundation in hopes to keep the funding from the Government and the Knight 2000 project under wraps at the same time. Hence all the sneeking around in the Pilot episode.

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Tue May 27, 2003 3:05 am

So KARR was meant to always be on "Auto Cruise" mode? Interesting.

It seems that FLAG was seperate from any other government agency, be it local, state or federal...but then again it was a private enterprise funded by a millionaire and his legacy, so that makes sense to a degree.

Thanks for the input!

Newcastle knight · Post by **Newcastle knight** » Tue May 27, 2003 2:40 pm

Errr i dont think KARR was meant to be pilotless. what good could a talking car do on its own ??????

they just realised the mistake in his programming and probably thought that it might endanger the life of the driver at some point.

The history of FLAG is somewhat vague, we only know what was told to us throughout the series and in the novels, which isnt a great deal. and has already mostly been covered in this post.

Scott

Darendor · Post by **Darendor** » Wed May 28, 2003 1:12 am

Newcastle knight wrote:Errr i dont think KARR was meant to be pilotless. what good could a talking car do on its own ??????

they just realised the mistake in his programming and probably thought that it might endanger the life of the driver at some point.

The history of FLAG is somewhat vague, we only know what was told to us throughout the series and in the novels, which isnt a great deal. and has already mostly been covered in this post.

Scott

You're right about KARR not being designed to be pilotless. His personality seemed to indicate that he NEEDED to have someone in the driver's seat, to be used, to feel like there was purpose to his existence. Kind of like a twisted personality I guess.

Where could I get ahold of some of these novels?

Post by **neps** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:19 am

Occasionally you can find them on eBay, or from Amazon's second hand department. They are out there used, you just have to look for them.

Knight Racer · Post by **Knight Racer** » Wed May 28, 2003 8:16 am

Ther are a few things missing from this post.In season 3 the season premier,we learn of a previous run with a different operative before Michael who was gunned down by the guy who was let out from jail in the episode.If you folow the team knight rider path there the megaman program with heroes who could run faster and are stronger then anyone else.I forgot the link to this site,but there was a site online detailing the entire history of flag includng everything we mentioned in this post.Wish I would have saved the link or the text on the page for that matter.

Post by **neps** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:21 am

Did you mean this site Knight Racer?

http://www.sailkat.com/flag/

I found it in the Big List, closest match.

Knight Racer · Post by **Knight Racer** » Wed May 28, 2003 6:40 pm

I'm not sure if that site is what I remember looking at but it does have a very extencive amount of knowledge on F.L.A.G.I as wondering about the molecular bonded shell part of the site.We know Goliath had the shell and one of the 3 of three people Wilton trusted with 1/3rd of the secret is dead.How did they give kitt back his shell after season 4's Knight of the juggernaught?was he given the same weaker armor plating as team knight rider?

By the way thanks for the link.

March2875 · Post by **March2875** » Thu May 29, 2003 11:16 am

Two people were still alive. Devon and the guy living in Switzerland that we heard about in Goliath. And any two of the three people combining their elements have the formula. Only Dr. Kyle Elliott who died in Goliath and if we believe Elizabeth died of a heart attack probably due to being poisoned the same way Devon was but having a heart aliment died. The real concern would be what would happen in KR2000 if the 4000 had been destroyed because now Devon was dead as well.

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