User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-4427703-20150331185025

Here are my thoughts on what will be occuring with the latest season of Red Vs. Blue, season 13.

First off, let's get the concept of Church dieing done right off the bat.

I do believe their is some credibility to Church going rampant theory, and believing that he may die before being able to help the Reds and Blues, so he sends out his message to have outside help come. That is completely logical.

With that said, I think we will see a huge bit of stray ends coming into play as to what will be occuring in Season 13. As we have seen, Malcom Hargrove, previous Chairmain of the oversight commity. Was able to acquire FILLIS. As we know from season 10, FILLIS had remained with the Director upon his presumed death. We also know that FILLIS sounds corrupted for some mysterious reason. My beliefs on this, is that she was programmed to only help the Director, Dr. Leonard Church,but Malcom was able to overide, or break her into being able to work under him. Now the only reason he would need an AI that woudl take that much time to make, rather than just getting his own would be for 2 reasons:

1.) He revels in his victory over the Director, which is probably, but still not required.

2.) He needs her data and components to deal with the Reds and Blues.

If we go off the second concept, and we associate that he has found a way to incorporate abilites into his armor WITHOUT an AI, we can also question if they are as stable, or as quick to use. This is going out on a long shot, but it's probably.

Now, we can confirm that Malcom has the Meta's helmet as well, but for it's purposes we don't know... There are a number of theories out there, including the following:

1.) It's for Locus, to become a new version of the Meta through multiple variantions of what that means.

2.) Malcom is simply copying off the Director's enginuity and thus, needs the armor to further improve his own suits.

Or my theory that ties in with 2....

3.) He needs an old Freelancer helmet to acquire, and hold Epsilon in a state that he can't do anything outside being in the helmet.

From my third options standpoint, I think we will see Malcom try to recover the Epsilon unit. He showed interest to the point of letting Meta and Washington go in season 7 to recover it for him. Now that could be so he could have made his armors able to use power abilities which now is already done, or maybe he still needs Epsilon to further improve his armors.

If the later is true, then maye he will see about capturing Epsilon to torture him into miniature fragments to further bolster his armors. From this torture, Epsilon may think he is dying, and try to reach out to help his friends in one last ditch effort.

Perhaps once the Reds and Blues finally do reach him, he is too far gone, and is really an memory of Epsilon, broken to the point that Alpha was before.

Now... this is my concept of what happens with Epsilon in terms of his 'death' but if this is true.... what I want to see happen is Tex come back to try to rescue him like before. Now you may think that Tex is dead, after all, the copy that he acquired in the Freelancer outpost is dead, and Epsilon effectively erased her from his memory BUT....

Look at what Epsilon said once he was recovered from the memory unit, When he heard a woman had rescued him... he thought is was Tex. This conveys a chance he is either confused, or he knows she is still out there.... And we never did find out what ever did happen to the Tex that was in Valhalla, the "original Tex" from the Blood Gulch Chronicles.

Where this "original" Tex is, I believe is with Malcom as well, and is in fact, THE reason that he was able to make his armors work without an AI.

In total, I think that we will see a return of Tex from being hidden behind the scenes so long. I think we will see the Epsilon move towards the path of the Alpha, seeing him broken down further to the point that he may not recover... That he will be a memory AI with no memories until Tex comes along to restore them.