User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-96.24.26.16-20141106215831/@comment-4616231-20141110035823

Locus and Felix were fighting in the Great War, which should have been going on at the same time as that backstory, so no. Remember, they also didn't know their employer, which they would have if their employer had already hired them. Also, there's no point in making them be those guys in the first place.