It is a bit of a shame Veritas Serum came along about when Darkwatch was falling. It certainly would have been fun to see some cute Darkwatch sentries falling under the total control of SI operatives. I am sure they would have been easily controlled and manipulated.Stormtrooper1990 wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 5:20 pm
You have to feel a little sympathy for the humble cute and loveable Darkwatch sentry. They are ordinary impressionable girls, forgotten by society. They are easy prey for the Darkwatch recruiters, who draw in the girl's with promises of shelter, purpose and a uniform( one they will end up losing). They are lured in, unaware that their employer is an evil neo-fascist terrorist group for hire who consider their sentries expendable assets, similar to Imperial Stormtroopers.
They are caught between an uncaring employer and a more skillful opponent who views them simply as assets, obstacles or even playthings. Darkwatch doesn't even bother to brief its sentries on the technology they are facing.
It's no wonder many of these cuties, join the SI who genuinely care about the welfare of its agents.
The way you describe the recruitment of the Darkwatch sentries kind of reminds me of the the women in the movie Octopussy. Obviously different in that even though she was technically a criminal Octupussy worked with the hero to save the day and was really a "good guy". And she clearly cared about her underlings unlike Darkwatch. However, when she was talking with James Bond about how she recruited her women she talked about women lost and looking for purpose in life. Sounds a bit like how you describe the Darkwatch sentries (though Octupussy's women were far more competent)