User blog comment:Randommerc701/How should Special Warfare: Final Silence end?/@comment-4576704-20120723170030/@comment-1956117-20120723185259

How about he becomes like a high ranking officer-type guy and is "retired," but he still trains future special ops units. And then one of the best units he has could contain the successor.

Or he and Kestrel can like die in an epic fashion, which will impact the story, and they are replaced by two more elite soldiers, one of them which will replace him.