User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-5746209-20140412171054

While I'm looking forward to this season, I realized something that could hold the season back: we might have too many main and supporting characters this season that could harm the plot. Let me explain this. (STGC means Simmons, Tucker, Grif, and Caboose)

From the teaser trailer it's safe to believe the main characters will be Simmons, Grif, Tucker, Caboose, Felix, Kimball, Locus, and Carolina. 8 isn't too much, but then we need to consider new characters that will be appearing. As Wes mentioned before hand, their are at least 8 other New Republic soldiers who are in the squads of STGC (specifically the ones with red and pink trim who seem to be Simmons girl team) and I've heard more major characters of the Federal Army will appear to add more antagonists. We also have the possible supporting characters to appear in this season. Epsilon-Church is confirmed with Carolina, but we also have a good chance that Wash, Sarge, Donut, Lopez, possibly Doc, and Freckles to act as supporting characters, trying to escape a war prison. Along with this, they could meet other prisoners that could become supporting characters who help them.

So based on all this evidence, we will have roughly a total of 23 main/supporting characters. This either means some of these characters will be more minor this season, won't appear, or some will die this season to not have to many in future seasons (if it's the latter, I assume Sarge, Freckles, and 1 of the Rebel rookies to die when rescuing the others). Hopefully, Miles finds a good balance to these characters and plot for this saga.