Cast
Mark Hamill in Squadron 42
Checked 2026-10-17
Mark Hamill plays the flight instructor, Steve "Old Man" Colton. His fee is not public. Anyone quoting a number is not quoting Cloud Imperium.
Source review: RSI published a Mark Hamill behind-the-scenes article on 19 November 2015, naming Steve "Old Man" Colton. The community wiki supplies his Stanton duty and reports his Manchester appearance. Those secondary details are distinct from an official payroll disclosure or a first-hand visit by this site.
Role, history, and the pay question
Wiki, IMDb, and Wikipedia agree on Lieutenant Commander Steve "Old Man" Colton. On the UEES Stanton page he is the flight instructor. IMDb lists a short "Old Man" video and a behind-the-scenes clip with him. The embedded video on this page is the official behind-the-scenes upload from 19 November 2015.
The October 2026 Manchester playtest page on the wiki records that Hamill was there. It also records the no-filming rule, so I am not embedding phone video from the room.
Pay: the cited sources do not disclose a fee. This page cannot verify a salary, and does not infer one from the presence of a celebrity in the cast.
Questions I keep getting
How much was Mark Hamill paid?
No official or reference-work figure is published. A specific dollar amount on a forum is not a source.
Who is Old Man?
Lt Cdr Steve Colton, the flight instructor aboard the UEES Stanton, played by Mark Hamill.
Sources I used
- IMDb tt5194726 — Secondary title listing. Current availability follows Steam and RSI, not an IMDb year field.
- Star Citizen Wiki: Squadron 42 — Secondary. Used for ship and character names, marked when not on Steam.
- Squadron 42: Behind the Scenes - Mark Hamill — Official Star Citizen upload, 2015-11-19T12:08:25-08:00.
- RSI: Squadron 42 behind the scenes, Mark Hamill — Official, 2015-11-19; names Steve Colton and Hamill. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Wikipedia: Mark Hamill — Wing Commander III, IV, and Prophecy as Colonel Christopher Blair.
- Wiki: Squadron 42 playtest — Hamill attended the Manchester session.