With the return of the 5th Column..

I think a couple things are in order. I've seen some threads suggesting that there be council vs 5th Column events in certain zones, and I'm all for that. But what about remaking a zone? Oh say.. Boomtown?
I remember looking up the Reichsman on paragonwiki the day that the new TF/SF was announced. It said that he was frozen in suspended animation in the Freedom Phalanx base deep underground Boomtown. So with the return of the 5th Column, what if Boomtown was remade into a zone where their return was obvious?
Huge buildings with 5th Column banners on it, and even a mission where you go into the Freedom Phalanx headquarters and find that it has been transformed into the 5th Column's base of operations? It just seems like if I went up to a random player to ask them if they knew that the 5th Column had returned they would respond:
1- "Lol wut iz the 5th column?"
2- "Returned? I thought they just made a guest appearance in a TF.."
Just a couple ideas I was toying around with, because I got psyched for the 5th Column when i15 was announced, just to find that they were just tossed into a TF and once again forgot about.. Suggestions?

Seems like a good idea to me. I don't see why not.
You know, besides time constraints and so forth, but yeah, the 5th Column's constant "returns" have grown tiring without the ability to actually encounter them in street sweeping, it doesn't really feel like they're back, but just a special faction that we fight occasionally in canon and a lot in AE.

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Oh yeah, I can't believe I didn't think of this before. If you have ever done the Imperious Task Force, then you have stared in awe of the giant 5th Column mechs that they plan on powering with Statesman and Lord Recluse I the (second?) mission I think. What if that was a gm that spawned in this re-invented Boomtown? They could even add some mechanic to it so that it wasnt just a drawn out slug-fest. Such as making it so that you had to knock out its shields to enter the mech itself and attack its power core directly. Just a thought.