Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-82.42.230.214-20131113213323/@comment-24140363-20140308115902

That is indeed true, however maybe it is more that Locus was a means of getting it. Wash had it, now Locus does. Locus may have been used as the means of getting it, maybe he'll be the means of getting a lot of things. I do doubt though that he'll be disappearing in the first episode. He is piece 1 in a very, very large puzzle.