AzureSkyCiel

funny enough, I'm planning to take the Storm elementals much faster in part BECAUSE they're not exactly the rularuu storm elementals.

I gotta ask this: looking back on some of the back story on the site, it mentions a fiasco where Statesman, in the initial assault of the first invasion attacked three Rikti Saucers which promptly crashed and destroyed the neighborhoods they landed in.
Why didn't Statesman, who had already been a hero for quite some time now, know about these consequences.
I'm really just curious because it does seem almost out of character on his part, though we do have word from Hero 1 that Statesman's "a little too violent" at least around the time of the Rikti War.

Also I am feeling a bit sad that this and other questions probably won't be answered since Manticore's answer thread has not been updated in a year...

An interesting example of the opposite is my Samurai character Takezo despite, and partly because, he is temporally displaced from Edo period Japan, he actually rejects modern Japanese government. Part of this consternation was that he read about what Japan did in World War II and immediately came to feel his own nation was dead to him, it's a process he's slowly begun forgive them, understanding that it's a different government now, and as a bonus the Tokugawa shogunate is also out of power. (His family has a grudge against Tokugawa for setting castes as a birth thing when Tokugawa himself had been born a peasant. Takezo's family is a similar case of rising from peasantry into Samurai caste)
So, no, he's not going to be the kind of person that goes out on a limb out of national loyalties.
The rest of mine have a strong "politics ruin everything" stance and similarly are not going to breech their morals for the sake of politics and nationality. So it kind of makes Malta justified in their hatred of them.

I kind of gotta go with Vaden here, how has Statesman really been the bane of everyone's existence? He's not much different from one of those statues. Then there's sheer fact that we all hate him just goes to show there'd be ZERO emotional impact of his death.
If they're going to kill Statesman, they'd need him to become more likable in the first place.
Now just removing statesman would be easy, especially to set up for character development.

First: You have him fight Tyrant... And then the Well of Furies withdraw all support from him mid-fight, leaving him not only a normal human, but suffering a relapse of his Mustard Seed Gas poisoning (which, the Well of Furies never did actually cure).

Second: Someone else intervenes and dies to help him, I'd probably say Blue Steel, BaB, Manti, or even an ordinary PPD officer. Bonus points if they honestly lay down a surprising amount of smack on Tyrant. This would prove to Statesman you don't the power of the Well to stand up against super powers.

Finally: After recovering in the hospital, Statesman, now just Marcus Cole again feels humiliated and humbled by the experience. Realizing that the world has greater heroes than him already, he goes on a sabbatical journey, vowing that when he returns to be strong enough to support other heroes.

Bonus points: Something similar happens to Lord Recluse, only instead of going on sabbatical, he, armed with only SoA AT powers, proves that even without the support of the Well, he's more than capable of keeping the rest of Arachnos in-line, but still develops common sense and withdraws to straighten Arachnos out (like that horrific idea of making Arachnos bases have chicken wire floors and mandating female personale to wear heels) and strengthen the hold he has.

Basically an odd little thought I just had when staring over the powers used by some of the Freedom Phalanx, but what if you were allowed to reassign powers/ATs of Signature and non-signature NPCs, what do you think would be changed?

Personally, for me I'd respec Synapse into an Electrical Melee/SR scrapper, sure Neuron was changed into the same, but I can't help but imagine it would fit Synapse even more.

other than that, I wouldn't be able to respec other NPCs without using non-existent powers.

Well the obvious choice for who to kill off first should be any sig character with an ally rez. Otherwise attempts to kill off anyone else will just result in them being resurrected by their comrades.
You know, like what Lady Grey did in the comics for most of the Freedom Phalanx? (or was it the Dark Watcher... I'm sure it's Lady Grey though since Manticore's said DW is actually a dark/regen scrapper)