In order.
1) It is. They carry out operations against the Red Court. This requires that they gather information on their activities and whereabouts when and where they can. They can give intel without disclosing methods of retrieval.
Just like Molly disclosed information derived by the Crown to the White Council without telling them of her Crown usage.
2) The Fae are bound to deal in certain ways. Molly is free to make whatever offer she feels like to the Fellowship. The Fellowship isn't Fae. Strawman argument.
3) In one instance we used it on a single child who it would've been entirely unreasonable to ask anything of. In the other instance we'd be deciding to do so for free for X individuals going forward which would require an entirely different cost to us and they are capable of giving us recompense even if it was only intel that they already have and procure on their own even before we showed up. It's factually different.
4-5) Porter is a single spirit and he's been disabled before. He isn't invincible. The Jade Dogs help keep the Last station our, Dragon Nest and base of operations on earth, secure as well as Chicago by proxy. Both of which actively benefit Molly. This was decided on before the Five Courts existed.
6) Devote most of their resources? I have no idea what your talking about. I've tried to clarify my position so as to not talk past each other but you keep going on about this so clearly there is still some level of misunderstanding.
7) We have given people Crown derived information before. They can tell us what they feel doesn't put their assets at unacceptable levels of risk.
8) I disagree that this isn't one of them. Such means are much more accurate when you have more intel to operate on to begin with. Like when we gather more info to better aim the Crown.
Edit: multiple errors
In order
1) They carry out operations against the Red Court, but they dont swing at the big dogs. They do outreach to halfbloods and try to expose Red Court operations where they would be forced to stop. Their terminal sanction targets are generally street and middle management. The highest we know they have ever tried was for Paolo Ortega.
And their penetration is nowhere as good as you appear to think.
Notably, they didnt hear a peep about when and where Maggie was kidnapped to in Changes, they had no idea why Chitchen Itza was planned, nor did they have any idea that the Red Court was going to wipe them out in Changes until they started having HQs and safehouses hit by kill teams.
2) Exactly.
She has no reason to charge them anything at all for this. She has no need to charge them anything for this, and it actively degrades their capabilities against a mutual enemy. Not to mention the social effects.
3) No its not.
Its like offering a Third World country excess COVID-19 vaccines that you would otherwise have to throw away, but insisting they pay US retail prices for it. Its a dick move IMO.
4-5)The only thing that disabled Porter was a greater akuma with preptime, and it roflstomped the Jade Dogs as well.
And we didnt have to rescue Porter.
Nothing that gets past Porter is even going to be slowed by the Jade Dogs.
And we could have moved the Jade Dogs to Sanctuary if we wanted to and replaced them with actual professional Sanctuary troops with military hardware.
We didnt because the Jade Dogs arent here at Last Station for security, they are there for PR and community outreach to the darker side of Chicago's supernatural underworld.
Just like our association with Cauldron is for community outreach to the lighter side of Chicago's supernatural scene.
6) Let me try and explain this once more:
The Fellowship is an insurgency not a nationstate. It doesnt get to piggyback on nationstate resources like the Reds can do.
It has limited resources.
Limited shooters, limited spies, limited fundraisers. Limited lore.
People training new recruits arent doing field ops. People doing admin work arent doing espionage.
And they have to do all this while trying to dodge the attention of both the Red Court and mortal authorities, because more than a minority of the Fellowship have been put on mortal watchlists by the Reds as criminals and terrorists.
Thats why Susan was arrested by the FBI in Changes.
Any demands would require that they pull people off those existing jobs specifically to cater to Molly's demands means they have less resources for other work.
Just the additional overhead necessary to scrub any intel of its sourcing materially degrades their capabilities.
This is not Sanctuary, where you have tens of thousands of experts to draw on.
Its not even the Fae Courts.
7)We have only passed Crown-derived info to people we trust enough to know about it, or after we've laundered the Crown info sufficiently that its origins are obscured beyond "nebulous"
Even hinting that we knew shit was a major problem while we were dealing with the Hollow Man conspiracy.
8) Disagree strongly.
There was once upon a time when the Fellowship might have been a useful source of intel in South America, but that passed when Molly got a fucking planet as a Background to draw on, and went up to Essence 4.
Their value is as PR and maybe tripwires.
That is not helped by trying to squeeze them as a captive market in the middle of their war.
Its of no value to Molly personally, and it starts out any relationship on the wrong footing.
Not to mention that, since we might well need Tiffany's help with this when dealing with the older Halfbloods so they dont die of old age after exorcism, it complicates the accounting even further.
