Wouldn't the
Saint Church be the group that will be going spare?
A thought I've been having about that. What happened to the Cradle's crew?
Some presumably merged into Mid's population. Though since we don't know the life expectancy of a High Belkan Combat Cyborg, they might not all have died of old age yet. They would however explain why TSAB black projects labs keep making Combat Cyborgs.
Others might like King Arthur have retreated into an enchanted slumber (or Stasis Pod, for what difference that is) to be awakened when needed most.
For the second the confirmation of a new Sankt Kaiser is one of the most likely wakening triggers, and the Wolkenritter being loose on the planet another...
There is less than two hours between Vivio being plugged into the Cradle and it being destroyed, so even if the awakening is automatic there is not much time for them to come out of hibernation, establish the situation and get involved. Especially if they were expecting to wake on the Cradle and Jail has shifted them to one of his labs.
If they were relying on being woken up then there is a good chance some minor church functionary spends the last four or five episodes of StrikerS running around trying to remember how to perform his previously presumed meaningless sinecures actual function. Or that they sleep on totally forgotten.
Nooticably we don't IIRC see Carim during the assault on the cradle. Is she digging a squad of ancient Belkan supersoldiers out of the cathedral's secure storage?
The butterflies in this setting of course allow for such to show up else where and operating on any level of current understanding from none to fully briefed.
