1/10: Deserter is an automatic first pick, insane value. Never know when you might need a day-of-the-jackal type mad pervert for hard targets at INSURCOM. The party disavows of course.
4/10: Soona for cryptography/comms and being on the Politburo making plans. Ambitious techies have motion and we're gonna need that to take down those airships.
9/10: This is a big expense but the party needs foot soldiers. After a lot of thought I am picking Titus Hardie as Marshal of the Revacholian Red Army. Homegrown hero who brings along the militant union members who will make up the mass foundation of our national liberation struggle.
10/10: Last point I am using to pick up Cuno. After attending a party literary program he will learn civic pride and can serve as an inspiration for the other local urchins, who can help deliver messages, dig tunnels, and operate crewed weaponry for the people's army instead of dealing drugs and stabbing eachother.
Honorable Mentions:
While I would battle corporate mercenaries to the death for Comrade Evart I am worried about his syndicalist and developmentalist tendencies. He is a bureaucrat who lacks the dedication for the people's protracted war against the coalition of nations. Better to recruit from within the Union through Titus.
I really wanted to pick Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor Kras Mazov because I am one of those sentimentalists who believe the RCM can be made to defect to the people, but that plan and the man are the very definition of "unreliable" even if it would be brilliant to see.
Gary barf for a national united front against imperialism but its too cringe and the Revacholian right wing are a bunch of weak losers anyway. We don't need em, Hard no.