: Sounds great by my books. I'm still reluctant to have SB
: in any way affiliated with the Heron- but since people
: are so insistent upon this, I guess I'll have to deal
: with it.
In my revision, he's not a Heron. He's another sort of Imperial Guard, complementary to the Herons - while the Herons stay around and guard the Emperor, his type of Guard goes out trekking in the far realms of the empire on elite special missions. It's like the National Guard versus the Marine or SEALs, or some such.