The Silencers are not part of the WEC.
Everyone, even Gauthier, thinks they are. But the men and women who became the first Silencers found that the way their brains had been twiddled provided interesting insights. They had wanted to be better soldiers. Now they wanted something more, something they knew their "masters" would never provide.
So, newly lethalized, they quickly set terms. They, not the WEC, would have complete control over the training and development of new Silencers. They would have complete freedom to requisition resources, from weapons and munitions to creature comforts to armor to cold hard credits. In return, when necessary, the WEC may call on the Silencers to achieve the seemingly impossible. The Silencers are not good guys, nor bad guys--they consider themselves above that, a superior breed, more than human. They may even see themselves as something like the next stage of human evolution, and so they must forge their own form of morality.
When you think about it, Silencers should have been guarding the facility, or at least the chamber itself, where Hoffman's new generation of Silencers were being bred. They weren't. Why? Either they disapproved of the project, or were not informed of it. If the WEC could breed Silencers, the entire selection and training process would be sidestepped, undermining an entire segment of their agreement with the WEC. In addition, Gauthier may have been getting suspicious of his superweapons after the defection of one of their supposedly incorruptible number, and "neglected" to tell them.
If forced to choose, they would side with the WEC, purely for pragmatism's sake, but the Silencers would do what they could.
Plainly, since the Captain is not aware of this, such information is not presented to lesser officers, only those greater in rank. Perhaps even Colonel Zurovec did not know, as he seemed as flummoxed as Vittek about what to do next--a general might have known the Silencers would be the ultimate example of "I against my brother, my brother and I against my cousin, my family and I against my neighbour, my neighbour and I..."
Everyone, even Gauthier, thinks they are. But the men and women who became the first Silencers found that the way their brains had been twiddled provided interesting insights. They had wanted to be better soldiers. Now they wanted something more, something they knew their "masters" would never provide.
So, newly lethalized, they quickly set terms. They, not the WEC, would have complete control over the training and development of new Silencers. They would have complete freedom to requisition resources, from weapons and munitions to creature comforts to armor to cold hard credits. In return, when necessary, the WEC may call on the Silencers to achieve the seemingly impossible. The Silencers are not good guys, nor bad guys--they consider themselves above that, a superior breed, more than human. They may even see themselves as something like the next stage of human evolution, and so they must forge their own form of morality.
When you think about it, Silencers should have been guarding the facility, or at least the chamber itself, where Hoffman's new generation of Silencers were being bred. They weren't. Why? Either they disapproved of the project, or were not informed of it. If the WEC could breed Silencers, the entire selection and training process would be sidestepped, undermining an entire segment of their agreement with the WEC. In addition, Gauthier may have been getting suspicious of his superweapons after the defection of one of their supposedly incorruptible number, and "neglected" to tell them.
If forced to choose, they would side with the WEC, purely for pragmatism's sake, but the Silencers would do what they could.
Plainly, since the Captain is not aware of this, such information is not presented to lesser officers, only those greater in rank. Perhaps even Colonel Zurovec did not know, as he seemed as flummoxed as Vittek about what to do next--a general might have known the Silencers would be the ultimate example of "I against my brother, my brother and I against my cousin, my family and I against my neighbour, my neighbour and I..."