This is my take on Red vs Blue Season 11. Who's the new villain? What will be the drive of the new plot? This is my theory on those questions

Enjoy.

UNSC Oversight Sub-Committee

The entire Sub-Committee had been gathered that morning on account of an urgent matter regarding traces of the now defunct Project Freelancer. For the majority of the last year, the Committee had been sending out recovery teams to retrieve lost armour equipment, cutting-edge weapons as well as data on, or even better, an actual A.I. fragment, though that chance was one in infinitude.

Malcolm Hargrove, incumbent Chairman within the committee, looked around, gazing, inspecting the other members; bureaucrats, military advisors, officers. And right at the end, skulking in the shadows, stood a towering figure clad in iron black armour with blood red trimmings.

Colonel Alex Sinclair

An infamous assassin and one of the most lethal warrior the UNSC had to bear. He was the one responsible for bringing him to this very position after the last Chairperson had been discovered an Insurrectionist sympathiser. Sinclair assured Hargrove his ascendance by staining the traitor even further - The results were not pretty. But as horrific as the outcome of that slaying was, what followed was perhaps the gravest example of butchery within the UNSC's combat timeline. On December 12, 2550, Lieutenant General Marcus Sinclair, Alex's father deserted the UNSC, taking the Thanatos super carrier and hundreds, if not thousands of insurgents with him to Eridanus II. The Insurrection had set the system as a focal point for an massive counterattack. All of the major insurgent groups would be there.

Of course, his father was the one who had oversaw Alex's failed augmentations several decades prior, and this last despicable act had finally sent Alex over the edge.

He had led the assault personally, having the Hades (His personalised Infinity-class flagship) decimate the surrounding fleet and he near-singlehandedly tore through the FOB on the ground, leaving anyone unfortunate to come across him in pieces, impaled, or in the case of his father, gutted. Apparently, his father did have a heart after all; his own son had held it in his hand.

No one had spoke of the incident after that. The single ODST team who had supported him in the fray avoided any discussions related to that matter. But the Insurrectionists, the true deserters, had been near crippled and allowed the UNSC to focus on other matters.

"We have a problem," Malcolm spoke out, his voice stern. "Ever since the decommissioning of Project Freelancer last year, our only sources of information regarding Leonard Church, former Director of the program, holding culpability for counts of unethical conduct, assault on legitimate members of the military, destruction of military property and withholding sensitive information. And so far, the most significant leads we have are from a group of Simulation Troopers found at Sidewinder, whom were somehow able to neutralise several high-ranking agents, all possessing immense combat skills".

Murmurings began amongst the council, the chatter either anxious, concerned or puzzled.

"In recent events, however" he continued. "These 'soldiers' had discovered the Director had taken refuge at one of his fallback facilities. Evidence regarding several hundred combat drones as well as equipment analysis prove he intended to resume his experiments. But layouts of the facility's structure have shown the Director's location at the south wing, sealed inside the main chamber. As life-support had been cut off and the systems shut down, leaving survival within the chamber impossible. Therefore, whilst it's clear the Director's sentence has been served…" He said with a hint of satisfaction in his voice. "The perpetrators of the act have gone missing after being relocated to a new outpost. Intelligence reports suggest they may have crashed out in the jungle-"

"If these sim troopers have gone missing, why hasn't our 'esteemed' Colonel Sinclair gone to retrieve them?" A younger member cut in

Malcolm scowled, glancing over to Sinclair's position. He looked tense; it was clear he didn't appreciate being out of the battlefield. "If you recall, Mr Hatcher. The last time Colonel Sinclair was in the field, that was during the Eridanus massacre - I'd rather we'd not have any more similar occurrences, wouldn't you agree?"

Hatcher went silent. The Chairman continued, bringing up a hologram of a soldier in grey and green armour. "We already have one of our best on the job. he will find them, we assure you".

"We?" Hatcher raised an eyebrow

"Yes, we" Sinclair growled. "This operative's deployment was vetted by both me and the Chairman. His skill set is commendable, and most importantly his temperament won't get in the way".

"Thank you, Colonel. That will be all. If no one else has any objections, we are adjourned"

The Committee members left without a word. As they left, Sinclair walked up to Hargrove. Malcolm frowned. Sinclair's body language was unreadable, he couldn't tell if he felt angry, concerned or any other emotion.

"You have something on your mind, Colonel?"

"Yes, when the Sim troopers were found at Sidewinder and our response teams recovered what was left, did they ever find Agent Washington? He replied gruffly

"We found his corpse on the cliffside alongside Agent Texas". The Chairman replied, trying to suppress any uncertainty

"The body, or just the armour? Also, those troopers confirmed the Meta as KIA, but where's his body as well?"

Malcolm looked pensive. "You believe the two had survived?"

"Most likely. And if so, the backlash from letting them run rampant would be immense." Sinclair replied, his voice grim

The Chairman let out a sigh. "Very well, Sinclair. If there is an occurrence and our agent discovers something outside our intel, I'll send you in. But try at the very least, to be subtle.

Sinclair let out a deep humourless chuckle. "Malcolm, subtly is part of my specialty".