Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.101.59-20140402002122/@comment-4616231-20140402003338

Apparently they have though I was never able to find a source.

The reason he's dead is MOTIVATION. His only motivation as the Meta was power from the AI. Now all the AI are gone except for Church, and if we have a thing where Maine hunts down the last remaining AI it's a repeat of Season 8.

Also indictative he's dead as a doornail is the removal of every single thing relating to Freelancer, by killing all the agents, the AI, and the Director himself.

The only thing Maine would have going for him now is pointless fight scenes that look pretty.