THE PIT (Fortuna Discussion Topic)

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Spoiler Yes Cowboy Beboop confirms that Hermes is normally the tutorial guy. He isn't imprisoned there normally, and it's more just his job. This is because he can freely enter and leave.
Helios ended up taking over, and that may mean that Patrons may also be given the job.

Also Helios as patron/Tutorial AI seems like one of those chicken-and-egg scenarios? (Unless I'm forgetting the out-of-universe order of events). We had Helios as a "patron" before* we'd unlocked the Patron system properly through the game's menu, which had to be done after at Cobalt+Nova et al's successful run.

*I think. I could be misremembering.

Helios was there taking care of our tutorial before he was our Patron! I reckon he took over because he's Apollo -1; hence, while the crew itself was referring to him as Apollo v1 like whom was supposed to be there at the time, he'd be the closest fit. It likely would be to circumvent bigger plot holes.
Tutorials go backwards in time, and since Captain Hermes' tutorial came after we freed good old Polly, he was still supposed to be there - but he wasn't, because he had escaped. Time travel is confusing.
Therefore, the closest fit, the remaining Sun God (as of course they assumed our friend was the Greek version and had murdered the Roman one, leaving only Helios and Sol, with Helios being closest under the belief that Greek Apollo had previously been in the tutorial) was hired by Mors to take over the role as Ship AI.

While I forget the particular circumstances to us unlocking Helios as a Patron, other than it was after his already being hired to take care of the tutorial, we already had the Patron system! We just bought an extra slot so we could have two Patrons following the last game, so it's more of an upgrade to a function that was already there rather than unlocking it.