The entire reason we didn't take the Major was because we will be getting Elsa at some point to fill her role. Elsa, the ex-cyberpunk VA-turned-VE.
Antionnete is more valuble in a lab developing shit than on the frontlines, plus she now has street cred which was her main obstacle in the past.
Yes, Elsa is the alternative for Major, not Antoinette.
Major/Elsa is there to take a role similar to Jamelia on the second team.
Antoinette fills an entirely different role.
So basically you want her because she's exactly like Henriette.
No, but I do want her because she is similar enough to take a similar role on another team, while being different enough to offer unique advantages. Like her nano science and fabrication, among others.
We're not at the point where assembling a second team is feasible.
Disagree.
We have already a half of a team there.
Rose and Donald being on vacation while others fought was the single most named complaint after the Moscow arc. They only were not able to do anything _because_ we do not have enough people for second team.
So we need to have a possibility to deploy the second team as soon as possible to not be in such a situation anymore.
doing so should be done in a systematic rather than piecemeal fashion, and it'd be better to get people who work in different ways filling the same role on B Team so they offer some truly distinct capabilities where it might actually be a better idea to use them instead of their counterpart on reasoning other than "X can't be two places at once."
This is exactly what we are doing.
We won't be able to employ four or six people we want at once.
We are looking and finding people who are both unique and fitting for the amalgam.
If you think that Henriette and Antoinette are too similar, than it is your opinion, one I disagree with.
Some balance in the team so it isn't all IterationX and Progenitors would also be good for the line of politics we're trying to spin, as well.
Elsa is not. Hannah is not. Baptysme, who I still hope we get, is not. Major would have been an Iterator as well.
But we probably won't be able to get someone not from Iteration with a similar skill set, a skill set we need, and surely not on a short notice.
Besides per Word of God at the end the amalgam will have about ten primary characters. And yes, I want another Syndic, NWO or VE character.
And we've not really made the best use of existing secondary characters, like the interns.
While interns are nice and useful, they are light support. They are not meant to be in spotlight. And they would need a ton of XP to come even near characters like Baptysme, Major, Antoinette and co. They are not feasible for the second team which should solve comparable problems.
I am really concerned we're going to start losing focus and characterization is going to suffer, but at least if new hires all have very distinct natures and handles for writers to work with it should be easier to give newer characters their due without ignoring the older ones.
This is another point to include characters like Antoinette, Baptysme, Elsa.
We know them already. We know how they tick. We know how they are. It will be easier both for the authors and readers to write about them, because so much is written already.
