User blog comment:Hawki/Nova Covert Ops, part 1 - Reflections/@comment-72.197.211.140-20160525010929/@comment-58609-20160609095018

Finally got around to responding.

On the subject, I like Mal as a character, but there's the usual hurdle of having to introduce a character that's already fleshed out to an audience that may or may not know about said character. This isn't impossible - many characters in Blizzard material or otherwise have introductions in EU material before the core media, but then compress getting up to speed to a short campaign. That, and I'm not sure how well Mal would "fit." It's not impossible, but in Spectres, Nova meeting Mal was by chance. There's no reason to assign a wrangler to the covert ops group in contrast.

I would say you're "supposed" to have blind loyalty to the Dominion though, in that loyalty is what's expected of a soldier of any nation-state. Nova's no different in that regard, only that her service is completely voluntary despite her status as a ghost. Loyalty to country is a theme of military fiction (see above for my musings on the genre, and if it applies to SC) after all.