User blog comment:Garr9988/Alternatives Kontinuum/@comment-1674153-20170419163558/@comment-1674153-20170419165559

Because that universe's Warehouse is run in every facet by Paracelsus. The agents have no agency, I don't think there are any regents. Alternate Hugo and Vanessa are forced to do their job because Parry's got his thumb on their kid, destroying their agency. We don't know why Valda is motivated to serve under Paracelsus, but it's not too far a stretch of the imagination to say that he was probably similiarly under the bootheel in some regard. His actions to try and take control of the Warehouse read to me as someone who is power starved.