If you ever have questions

[Jordan Anthony Vex]

Is Clovis Taro still a factor in the story? I know he appeared very briefly but I did find him somewhat intriguing. Considering he was also developing nanites for the base. He made his appearance around the first time Sagitar made theirs if I remember correctly.

Clovis was a character I invented who was planned to be a kind of opposite to Artemis intended to make Silver seethingly jealous (white cat, black wolf) and was designed to be a smug little thorn in Fox's side.  His training is in both military offensive related things (weapons, primarily nonlethal) and agriculture as his family has owned very successful spice farms for generations.  If you put pepper or paprika or ginger or any kind of spice or condiment on your meal it probably comes from Clovis' farms.  He is VERY wealthy and unlike a lot of people working for Fox, he's there because he wants to be and not because he actually needs Fox's money.  So if she ever comes up with an excuse to fire him he can just shrug, take all his lovely patents that he lets Fox use, and go home.  Fox finds him frustrating because he is unshakable, smug, and she NEEDS him to a certain extent.

Originally he was going to turn traitor and join up with Titan, but Sagitar fit that role a great deal better.  I prefer subtle most of the time and Taro betraying everyone just wasn't him.  He's too much of a self made man to ever try to get to Fox by going through someone else.  So instead he's the rich man that lets fox use his patents and smiles too much.  We haven't found a use for him again in the recent plots but now that I know people miss him I'll try and work him in sometime in the future.

Trivia:

Whenever Fox drew him I told her to never draw him not smiling.  The exceptions are when he's truly upset or feeling some deep emotion.  But he ALWAYS has that smug smile on unless his guard is truly down.

He is one of the few islanders that can afford to pay the chimenticores off and owns a car, a jeep specifically.  He uses it to quickly transport people in emergencies mostly.  And to annoy Fox she can't play the pollution card because the car is an electrical tesla model and does not generate carbon waste.  This annoys her.

Ooooo, very interesting. That's one of the things that caught me about him. He seemed so laid back and relaxed. Nothing would surprise him from what I could tell. Though to be honest I guess it makes sense now why people didn't really trust him at first, especially if the original intent was for him to go traitor. Minion noses must be wired to smell treachery.

I also kind of feel like Amos would like the guy, if only both are self made (Amos to an extent, he has not even close to the amount of wealth Clovis does i'm sure).

So in that case the Jeep that was used to transport Artemis back to Clovis' estate (I presume?) when Sagitar dired a dire out of Artemis was his correct? Considering he was one of the more important individuals involved in that affair.