Unfortunately, no. The character is a Jedi Consular and so could not have had "Old Blizz" as she wasn't a BH. She definitely had new Blizz, recruited through the "Little Boss" Alliance Alert. Apologies if I didn't make that fully clear in my original post! Edited to add: Also, I'm not sure the Guss recruitment mission will even show for you if you haven't done the actual Blizz Alliance Alert.

So last night, I finished chapter 16 on a DvL character and then decided to do the Guss Tuno alert (which I had already completed successfully on an older character who completed KOTFE). This time, after talking to Sana Rae, when I went to go talk to Blizz, the quest marker was there for him in Hylo Visz's wing, but Blizz was nowhere to be found. I tried logging out and then back in as that sometimes resets these things, but it didn't help. I then checked my companions window and noticed that Blizz had somehow dissappeared from my other companions and was now listed under Alliance Recruits - meaning not only can I not complete the Guss alert, but I've now lost Blizz as a companion as well. When I previously completed the Guss alert, it was the only active alert where as this time I had the Akghul Usar and Broonmark alerts available still in my companion window, so I don't know if somehow that made a difference (not sure why it would). The impacted character is Korinnda on the Ebonhawk server.

I can see how you might think that, but I don't think that's the determining factor. They obviously got Lacey back to voice the Bounty Hunter's intro to KOTFE in chapter one since you speak with Mako at the very beginning. It's entirely possible they had her record additional dialogue for her to appear again in future chapters of KOTFE. Jaesa on the other hand introduces more complications because of the whole light-side/dark-side choice. It's also notable that Mako had voiced interactions in the opening cinematic for Shadow of Revan, but Jaesa didn't. It may just be that Jaesa is one of the companions who won't be returning, but that doesn't tell us much about some of the others.

I find this an interesting discussion, and I can see both sides to an extent. It is true that a small but dedicated guild can punch well above its weight class, but there is still a point of diminishing returns at which it simply isn't possible to match a much larger guild, even if on an individual basis you outdo the larger guild's individual members. Perhaps that is as it should be. Perhaps not. To take a real world example that I experienced this very week - and because Veritas and the Ebon Hawk have already been mentioned - my guild, the Space Ninjas, came in third on Voss this week where Veritas placed first. We are the smallest of the small guilds, consisting of five real-life friends and the son of one of us. Six people/accounts total. We do have an army of alts in the guild, and we are fairly dedicated crafters and have a decent amount of in-game wealth (we would have to in order to get a guild ship, right? And we did that on both the Republic side and the Imperial side for our mirror guild). We had targeted this week as a week we could crack the leader board. I had a plan and the materials stockpiled to execute that plan. Four of us, utilizing all of our crafting characters, busily worked away to finish in 3rd place (our other friend and his son weren't on this week and didn't really contribute). Four people scored over 4 million points and took third place. It wasn't easy. It required dedication and some coordination - but it does prove that a small, dedicated team can accomplish a great deal in this system with proper planning. Still, for all that, could we have challenged Veritas? No way. We just wanted to get our tiny guild into the top ten and stay there. We did that, and now I really need to rebuild my crafting mat stockpile . . . Edited to add: Since it's probably relevant, I should also note that all four of us are busy adults with full-time (and stressful) jobs. Just to curtail the no-lifer charge!