Quote: Eurostar said: And only TTT has talked about concentrating over the main characters, leaving the secondary character out, or in the background.
Well, that's not exactly what I said or what I mean.
What I said (IIRC) is that it may be time to get rid of the "Maxwell Lord" type of business overseer for the team. Vanguard has many different avenues of private funding for their ventures, but unless they're serious about turning a profit as a corporation would, they won't need a Kit Piper or Victoria Xiang to oversee that stuff at all.
As far as secondary characters go, I'm not against using them when they are integral to the plot of the story. We should never use secondary characters like Grissom (as long as he is posterless), Quantos, Charley or Leslie in the same way we would use members of the team. As our agreed-upon guidelines say, the Vanguardians are the stars of the stories. The support staff is only useful inasmuch as they fulfill their supporting cast function: Grissom does security and coordinates the team when they need him; Quantos is the team's medical doctor; Charley fixes stuff; and Leslie is around for when Phil needs some lovin'... I don't know that she has any other function in the main stories.
In any case, if people are really interested in writing more stuff with the support staff that doesn't have anything to do with the given plot of a collaborative story, it should be done in a separate story. Go nuts. Just don't do it in the main story.
