(New to the forums, so please correct me if I'm not spoiler tagging things properly or committing other offenses.)
The Player's Guide to Iron Gods gives the sense that the Technic League are supposed to be major movers and shakers in the AP, even going as far as warning prospective players away from wanting to join up with them.
However, up to the end of Book 3, the Technic League has felt a bit...peripheral. Disappointingly so. Certainly the NPCs play up a fear of the League and the story adequately conveys the organization's tendency to involve themselves (violently) in other people's business. However,
The reason for this observation was because prior to the release of Books 2 and 3, I had been working on a way to link up a PC's background villain with the League itself (I won't crowd the discussion with detail for now). Usually when creating connections between the PCs and the overarching AP plot, I have all the books at my disposal. Since no one has yet had that luxury with Iron Gods, linking things up has been a bit more difficult. I was hoping that the League would actually take interest in the PCs, sending agents to hamper their progress or at least putting themselves at odds with the group in a dynamic manner. That way, the aforementioned villain could be introduced early enough, connected to the AP antagonists.
The problem is that, as they have been presented so far, the Technic League simply don't seem active enough as villains
So that brings me to my question: Will the Technic League actually show up in a more significant capacity (beyond foreshadowing and the general fears of the Numerian population) before Book 5? Will they start to play more of an active role in Valley of the Brain Collectors, or will they continue to sit in Starfall until the PCs show up on their doorstep?
Any thoughts on the matter would be helpful.