User blog comment:Beta-Red-Actual/That one Blue Dude - Simple theories/@comment-5189054-20120924012809/@comment-2135507-20120924013422

Just because your the best of the worst doesn't mean your good enough to be with the skilled. And they sent Alpha to a backwater canyon in the first place because was so that no one would look there. Sending a trained guard with him would compromise that at one point or another.