Well, he probably didn't make the deal specifically for Tess. He made it before she came out of the pod and cut her in on it for some reason, probably because he thought he needed to have one of the Royal Four on his side and Kivar didn't care much about Ava. Ed also apparently didn't foresee his own death... which means that he'd have been more involved in the sabotage himself.Roslover39 wrote:that's an interesting thought about nasedo.
I was wondering, If Nasedo was supposed to be a protector of the Royal
Four, how is it that he made a deal 40 or so years ago for tess to
sabotage them?
Given what we learned of how the protectors were treated in 'Control', I don't think it's too unlikely that Ed would feel hard done by and go looking for a better offer from the other side. He might have to obey Max and not hurt any of them himself, but I don't think there's anything that would keep him from making sure that they ended up in the custody of some of Kivar's hirelings, and then being unable to save them from harm (like if they were taken off the planet, or something.) I'm not quite sure how it was originally supposed to work.
As to why Whittaker didn't get the memo... well, presumably the deal was not 'need to know' for the copper summit skins, at least not the soldiers of the ranks. (I wonder if Nicholas knew?)
The moral: Don't try to compel your protector's loyalty with tricky brain DNA techniques. Get some who actually WANT to serve your side... maybe for idealistic reasons? I dunno..