I could see Recluse withdrawing from current events over Statesman's death for a while. But I sooo much wanted to see Tyrant take up the Statesman name, costume and mantle on his redemption path. A perfect story in fine comic book tradition for the CoH "Going Rogue" alignment change, perhaps even being accepted by the Freedom Phalanx one day.
I really wanted to see that too. It felt to me like everything ended just before the story was going to be crazy good. Like walking out of a movie theater before the climax of the film.
I heard somewhere, I think it was on a post mortem with Positron (Positron no more
), that Scirocco was on his way to a redemption arc as well. I remember hearing it SOMEWHERE because when I heard it I was like, "I KNEW IT."
Somehow, I always had the feeling that, if any villain had hope for salvation, it was Scirocco.