Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24140363-20140727101435/@comment-96.248.80.60-20140907223034

But remember, in the episode Reflections, Kimball tells Tucker that they use to fight in the Great War, and they stayed after their comrades left for home. Maybe their friends care for money just as much as Felix and Locus, and are willing to help them to get a cut.

And to me, Control is clearly someone more powerful than the mercenaries, probably someone they themselves fear. While this is unlikely an AI is a candidate for this because without an EMP you can't really kill them, so they have full power. Someone like Gamma would fit the roll of Control rather well.

Computer Voice? Check

Knowledge of/Reason to hate Reds and Blues? Check

Power to decieve people into doing what he wants? Check

Is alive? Well not confirmed but he is the AI of deception. Maybe he wasn't actually captured by the Meta back in Reconstruction (which would explain why Meta had 7 AI at the end rather than 8)

Reason for wanting to kill all the inhabitants? Well as Felix said, the UNSC kinda forgot about this planet, so any activity that he wants without any outside knowledge would be perfect here.

This is just my opinion (and maybe because I always wanted the Reds and Blues to use the time distortion to go back in time to the Project Freelancer timeline) but I see it as a possibility