Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.188.209.11-20131106151944/@comment-4616231-20140517024214

Agent Rhode wrote: And Locus isn't getting paid to kill them. We don't even know if he's getting paid to capture them anymore. He could be just getting paid to fight the war now, or to retrieve more artefacts or whatever's in the crate.

It might be a hard decision for Grif, maybe he thinks his friends are dead. Maybe in a battle he loses heaps of soldiers. Maybe he has a falling out with Tucker, or Kimball, or Simmons and is captured by Locus. And Locus offers him a chance to leave either in exchange for secrets or just to get him out of the picture. He's not perfect. Nobody's perfect.

And maybe it's upon realising he's all alone at Valhalla that he decides to turn back to Chorus. - maybe with the UNSC if he can convince them. That could be his return and the way the New Republic win the war. Yours isn't exactly definite or legitimate either. If you have speculation you think is going to happen then you should also be able to properly defend it as well. But of course nothing is going to be definitive or legitimate when debating in speculation. That's the whole nature of speculation in the first place!

Mostly I try and go the logical way. Logically, Locus isn't getting paid for having a nice chat over tea with the dudes he's supposed to be killing. Sure, I don't REALLY know that, but you don't know that he doesn't, or if your idea's really going to happen either. It's speculation against speculation. I don't have to be "definite and legitimate".