Talk:Gabriel William Clarkson/@comment-2.139.60.111-20160606194541/@comment-38600780-20190812035855

So i know this is 3 years late, but yes his defection was planned before the flight. Fiona had been wanting to jump ship and team up with her sister.

As for Clarkson, The UPEO was more or less a puppet of GR, for the longest time they were basically a paper tiger kept around to give the public the impression there was some neutral force capable of good in the world(not unlike the real UN).

In reality they were more or less a third faction that GR hoped they could use against Neucom when things finally went hot.

Then Clarkson joined the UPEO, in it he focused on actually separating them from GR and making them a distinct organization. Now he too might not have been doing this out of the goodness of his heart, he may have been a long standing Neucom ally, Neucom hoped for the same as GR, a third party to shift power and help Neucom win out against GR.

When things actually went hot however, it was clear Clarkson did not have the pull to swap the UPEO to Neucom, so instead he would take himself and whatever talent they had and just jump ship to Neucom, this is where the mission comes in and his assassination or not by NEMO.

Either way if he had hung around any longer at UPEO, GR would have gotten rid of him eventually.