Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-26018514-20191116190905

exactly, You don't just hire a proxy seat at that point because having a General and headmaster seat is for a reason: both positions collect important information relevant to defense of the nation, so it doesn't exactly help at that point to create a feckless puppet position only effective until one of those positions eventually changes hands anyways, it requires enormous trust, but James has been implied to have earned that trust.