Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24140363-20140727101435/@comment-4616231-20140922054503

The backstory WAS that side story. People said Locus was a Freelancer, and he's not, but obviously that can't be true anyway. If Locus - or anyone else on his level - was a Freelancer, they should've been on the leaderboard and doing important missions with the rest of the guys. The only other Freelancers we see are Utah and Georgia, who aren't exactly the most competent guys around. Wash was the least competent soldier among them back then, and if they had a badass like Locus to send in his place, they would have. The backstory focuses on the badasses, any other Freelancers that existed had to be worse than Washington, and would've been like Georgia or Utah.

I don't want the show to waste time on another side story or whatever just for the sake of a stupid twist. It'd also make it incredibly obvious - oh hey, here's this Freelancer we never told you about, and they're also Control now! Same deal if Control tells them "I'm the freelancer we never told you about" - then it's a retcon.

For the sake of less bullshit, it's way better to just stick with the Freelancers we know actually exist and don't need to retcon into the show. And that's Wash and Carolina. Control is not a Freelancer.