User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-178.219.97.150-20141106101721/@comment-178.219.97.150-20141111170330

Hmm, nice catch with Donut and Doc's ship. Maybe when the mercs found out that they picked up the distress signal, they figured they can have the full crew in the canyon making them even more mobilised to fight or something. Anyway, since the pirates are controlling who leaves the planet (so far no one), that's no problem for them to leave it in any ship that is located on Chorus. And I believe that ship wasn't the only ship on the planet. Feds rescued the Reds and Blues after the fight using their own one (well, it is possible that it can't leave the atmosphere). Another one was seen in season 11, when Locus ordered the four Feds to go "hunting". This one was pretty big actually, and I wonder what was it doing there since every vessel up in the sky is blown into thousand pieces. They possibly don't need to inform Chairman about it, but yeah, Locus might be a problem in this case. Felix secretly orders a group of mercs to go with him or maybe Locus will change his mentality after re-thinking this dialogue with Wash (though the second option sounds a just bit too.. cheesy?).

I believe they can track down Staff of Charon via radio transmission, that is possible. And, yes, the other option is some magic technology. And that sounds too easy just to charge it. They can always use the ship or capture other ship to get there undercover,  maybe some supplies delivery, and when they get onboard they start infiltrating the rooms and then begin a well-organised assault. You may say that it doesn't sound logical, but RvB wasn't always logical in any battle. I wonder how did they get Carolina to fight, since Church said that she is in NO CONDITION to do so (also, it's weird that Chorus is supposed to be a big planet, but it is governed by a small army which was all gathered in only one city..., but whatever).

I don't think it wouldtake most of the season. Tracking down the ship using radio transmission wouldn't take long. When Church figured where the Director is back in season 10, he was dead after just a few epsiodes. I don't think it would take longer this time. In that case the rest of the season will be focused on the armies of Chorus. And it isn't hard to piss of Felix enough to make him want to kill a person. Jerk. (I mean the Felix).

I like your idea of the mercs' deaths. But I doubt Hargrove is going to come to them. It seems like he spends all the time inside the ship with his lazy ass laying on a sofa or something and ordering some people to do stuff for him (either on the ship or outside of it). The killer must come to him.