Having given it a little thought, here's a little addition to spin off origins:
"Having lost control of the original four Sabres, Crey has a potential PR disaster on their hands. Intended to be armored shock troops like the Paragon
Protectors, the Sabres' datanets were furnished with basic Crey access codes to the tacnet used by the Paragon Protectors and Crey Crisis Teams for
coordination. While the heroes have shown no knowledge of possessing such a damning piece of evidence that could quite literally expose the entirety of
Crey's illegal operations to the public(and knowing their history, would use such at the first opportunity), the Countess has declared that a new
subdivision be commissioned to hunt down the Sabres and reacquire the smoking gun they're unwittingly carrying. Not being able to use the Paragon
Protectors, already under scrutiny, to hunt down liscensed heroes makes the situation problematic, especially given the Sabres having given Crey a wide berth
in recent events. Thus, Project Scimitar was enacted, using the data taken from the Sabres during their confinement. Several prototypes were constructed and
further customized with unique abilities, with the intent that they would make fine "costumed criminals", a villainous counterpart to the Paragon
Protectors in plausible deniability. Unfortunately for Crey, they've yet to work out that niggling little bug in the code that seems to spark true
sentience in anything based off their stolen sexaroid tech...."
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
"Having lost control of the original four Sabres, Crey has a potential PR disaster on their hands. Intended to be armored shock troops like the Paragon
Protectors, the Sabres' datanets were furnished with basic Crey access codes to the tacnet used by the Paragon Protectors and Crey Crisis Teams for
coordination. While the heroes have shown no knowledge of possessing such a damning piece of evidence that could quite literally expose the entirety of
Crey's illegal operations to the public(and knowing their history, would use such at the first opportunity), the Countess has declared that a new
subdivision be commissioned to hunt down the Sabres and reacquire the smoking gun they're unwittingly carrying. Not being able to use the Paragon
Protectors, already under scrutiny, to hunt down liscensed heroes makes the situation problematic, especially given the Sabres having given Crey a wide berth
in recent events. Thus, Project Scimitar was enacted, using the data taken from the Sabres during their confinement. Several prototypes were constructed and
further customized with unique abilities, with the intent that they would make fine "costumed criminals", a villainous counterpart to the Paragon
Protectors in plausible deniability. Unfortunately for Crey, they've yet to work out that niggling little bug in the code that seems to spark true
sentience in anything based off their stolen sexaroid tech...."
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."