[Sunder the Gold]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

Zest's team is just that, one team--calling the entire ground forces incompetent based off one botched mission that was screwed from the get-go is a little unfair.

It's not that Zest's team got killed, it's WHY they got killed.

They saw a problem and wanted to solve it, but their superiors told them to ignore it. So they went off and tackled it anyway. Turned out it was real problem.

Caught without proper support, valuable, irreplaceable human lives AND human resources were lost, trying to solve a problem against orders, because their superiors were idiots or corrupt AND were unable to maintain control of their own soldiers.

And then later, the airport incident. And all of the other relics turning up on Midchilda's black market.

The Ground Force wasn't handling its job, either because it (or its leadership) was incompetent or deliberately not trying.

So Hayate created a unit to do the job the Ground Forces should have been doing.

As for RF6, they disbanded after a year had passed--the JS Incident was closed nearly half a year before they actually disbanded.

Waiting for any possible fall-out or back-up plans Jail might have left in store, I imagine. Certainly, it's a popular enough fanfic idea, and it probably occured to Hayate, Fate and Chrono.

But that's all muddying the point--you asked what Hayate was doing differently from Regius, and that's what I answered.

The question only mattered if what Hayate was trying to do was "set a better example for the Ground Forces to follow".

She didn't do that, because that wasn't her intention, so it's irrelevant.