The whole DDS world is reeling in shock from the death in combat of Firefly, the eternal confident of Windy. Some say he was the conscience of the DDS, the straight man in the comedy act, the rock around the other various strange characters orbited.
So how will his loss be felt by the DDS. I do not think it will be easy especially for Windy. He will no longer have the "voice of sanity" when preparing for a mission. Perhaps he will now take even greater risks for the DDS without the wise counsel of his brother. The loss of Windy too would be a body blow to the DDS especially during a war. The DDS need to take care of Windy now, his counterbalance is gone and his behaviour, until he finds balance again, could be very unpredictable.
As a combat asset Firefly will be a loss to the DDS too though his combat powers had waned in recent years, some say his heart was no longer in it and he might have walked away from the DDS at the end of the current war.
The main loss to the DDS will be what Firefly represented. He was a decent man who represented an earlier DDS, a simpler and more honest DDS perhaps. A DDS of adventure and heroism that has not got tied up in a galaxy of intrigue and politics. We all feel the loss of Firefly as we all feel the loss of those simpler times.
