Thats the PRT's problem and no one else's. If they didn't want to get wrecked, they should have tried actually doing things like their jobs, rather than covering their asses.
With the FBI it was also before a lot of the social media and faster/better communications and spread of news.
To play devil's advocate though, the Protectorate/PRT (particularly the Protectorate) is a hell of a lot less insulated from problems than most other alphabet agencies like the FBI.
Or worse they might get a few applicants like Sophia who see membership as a do whatever you what card, and while they are hurting for recruits I bet they don't want recruits like that.
Nah. They're a government agency. They'll keep anything and everything under wraps so long as they money keeps flowing and the status quo stays inviolate. What are the lives of the populace compared to keeping the institution in charge?
Thing is, that if word got out that a Ward, that was given the choice of joining the Wards on probation in the hopes of salvaging a villain-in-the-making or going to jail then blew her second chance, and the PRT/Protectorate promptly threw her in jail for throwing away her second chance, most people would say "She was a stupid teenager that was given a second chance and a golden opportunity to turn her life around, only to blow it." The blowback on the rest of the organization would be minimal.
Basically Piggot did simple math and thought why would I get rid of two Wards for a new untrained parahuman when I can just send her way and keep the more experienced Wards. Unfortunately she forgot to take into account the long term effects and just how petty and determined Taylor could while also neglecting to think about the political ramifications of what would happen if the story got out.
I'm actually surprised that it hasn't come out yet, the PRTs infosec in Brockton usually resembles that of a funnel. Info goes into the PRT and goes straight to the gangs. Coil, asshole that he is should have seen what a golden opportunity to murder Piggots career this is if he blew the whistle on "two wards almost murder someone, victim forced into wards program and shipped to Boston"
He's probably thinking "damn if this had only happened a few months later I would have been positioned to exploit it." Man's fundamentally a coward, taking the opportunity for a bold stroke isn't him.
He could be saving the information to use later when he is in a better position, because a coward he may be he is still smart enough to save his cards for when they will be most useful.
My point is that these cards are most useful now, he's just lacking in the testicular fortitude to play them absent the rest of the deck stacked to his personal liking.
Personally I would say that the cards he has been given would also be most useful when Taylor decides to pull a runner, which considering how things are going might be sooner rather than later, because at that point it becomes a scandal where not only did the PRT/Protectorate cover up a crime but also drove the victim out on to the streets with their treatment of her. Especially if Taylor decides to go to the press with her story and suddenly the heroic Thomas Calvert arrives with the evidence to support her claims.
That would be the royal flush that Calvert is waiting for on the River, meanwhile he's sitting on a full house in his hand.
To be fair the problem is he needs to have his cards right or he is screwed. His past means most anyone would be a better choice for prt director so he has to make it a dumpster fire no one sane would touch to have a chance and if he does get someone else in the seat he is back at square one but now with someone he does not know how to handle and not a neurotic mess he can run circles around. He has one shot because once people realize he is a real player not a no body he is in real trouble.
Why do I feel like this is Piggot's justification:
Plausible, and another reason why Costa-Brown doing what she did re: the Ellisburg survivors was a terrible idea institution-wise.
And made no sense like many things Wildbow did. Piggot should have been down checked from further service just from her physical injuries. She was in no condition to do anything stressful. Full medical disability and retirement with honors. And thats before she was down checked for PTSD and related trauma. Does the prt have no psychologist's save for those who rotate through a week and check off boxes before heading to their next post?
Which is fucking hilarious, really. Given the investigations that would be launched, Piggot is now absolutely complicit when Costa-bitch lies through her teeth in front of Congress.
Which is itself pretty bizarre, but we only have the word of someone Piggot talked to in her flashback that that's literally what happened. I still think it's more likely that some or all of the capes were ordered out (which is certainly something the PRT would want to cover up), or that most of them died and the survivors only ran after that happened.
Costacunt likely chose the representatives from the grandstanding spandex brigade at the behest of Cuntessa with an eye towards them being the first to break and run. Then capitalized on Piggot being a bullheaded idiot with delusions of grandeur to set up Brokton Bay and all the people in it as an expendable experiment in the of Fucking Saucepan's "greater good," as envisioned by a group of barely-intelligent, jumped-up college student morons and their bronze-age oracle.
Wildbow being Wildbow? Calvert was crazy and literally had no leverage so Contessa interference for some plan makes more sense than anything. She cant see triggers though so has no reason to know he would buy a useful power to then squander playing bond villain though.
Maybe she was and they just didn't tell her because her power didn't make her useful as a Protectorate member (and the Thinkers predicted that her reaction to finding out would make her useless for their plans).
Pretty much, yes.
The law enforcement part of the program is for all intents and purposes on thin ice and basically suspended until further notice but if anything the rest of the program is catching up to standards. PR tours, training and courtesy visits to different cities, are more likely than not being pushed to the front by Young Guard instead of their regular schedule so if anything the ENE Wards are more visible than ever as they do anything other than patrols and police work.
