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PLANE - pilot captain
BAND - captain of the band

RULER - A captain is in charge?
TRAIN - maybe, but usually a conductor?
BRIDGE captain is a thing?

“The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.”
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A captain issues orders from the BRIDGE.
RULER - rules over his ship?
PLANE - pilot
BAND - do marching bands have captains?

I like BRIDGE and RULER, but other than that I'm not sure.
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A captain stands on the BRIDGE.
A captain is often pictured with a TELESCOPE.
He is supposed to go down with a SINKing ship...
... after which he might end up on a BEACH.
He is the final authority, or RULER, on his ship.
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Band - feels like a dubious connection here, only works if we extrapolate captain to mean leader in general, but lacking other options this could be what's intended.
Lab - even more of a stretch, you could connect Lab > NASA > Astronaut > Captain
Train - First thought: train as in a locomotive does not fit and captain could specifically be used to discourage us from this as opposed to something else.
Second thought: captains train their troops to keep them ready for combat and that's a pretty strong connection.
Plane - Most obvious.
Ruler - Captains rule over their subordinates.
Pit - As in pit leader as a NASCAR term?  Or possibly orchestral?  Shaky on this one.

Ranking these:

1. Plane
2. Ruler
3. Train
Then either Pit or Band

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I couldn't remember whether an airline pilot is also called a captain; since everyone else liked PLANE, I'll agree with that as a first choice. I like BRIDGE for a second choice and TELESCOPE for a third. Hollywood loves to show sailing ship captains using a telescope.
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Agree on the first two being PLANE -- aircraft leader is indeed called a captain -- and BRIDGE.  Prefer RULER over TELESCOPE for #3.

I think TELESCOPE is indicating a very specific image and cluing Captain I think is more to bring different images together.  If he had wanted to clue us in to the image of a captain with a telescope on the bridge of a ship i think we would have gotten a more specific clue like buccaneer or pirate.
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I'm with Pindicator here, a different clue could have been used for TELESCOPE, even if it would be difficult to avoid the other nautical-themed words.
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Right, I knew bridge was a connection but I couldn't remember why exactly. Tired midnight brain.

We're all agreed on the first two with plane and bridge.
I like telescope a lot, I think its possible, but it should be more of a spyglass than telescope. ruler and band feel about the same distance from captain to me, but everyone but DaveV has ruler over band.

Point to plane
Point to bridge


DaveV you good with ruler for the 3rd?
“The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.”
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Plane and Bridge are blue.
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