Malakim and Vessels

[Rocket Man]

My take only:

1) Of all angels, I consider the Malakim the most likely to have a spare vessel. Lost your old human suit? Pull a new one out of the wardrobe and jump back in ... though this can create some incongruities. In a prior campaign, we had a Malakite in a burly male vessel who had been killed by a demon and immediately popped back in the form of a 9-year-old girl ......

2) Those that don't have an extra body waiting are going to have to go to the Superior. I envision that every Archangel budgets a certain amount of Essence for Malakim replacement as part of the "cost of doing business"; these are intended as high-risk combat troops and replacing the gear is part of the job. That said, the Superior has a lot on his/her plate; I could see either having a subordinate whose job is to meet incoming Virtues and process "vessel alerts" in a timely manner, or else having the Archangel slot the Malakim in between appointments. If that's the case, it probably won't be days before the vessel gets approved (that would defeat the purpose of "no Trauma") but I could see it being hours in the case of some Superiors. On the other hand, Michael, David and Laurence may have rows of vessels in cold storage, ready to be cracked out and used immediately -- though the specific form may not be quite what the warrior had in mind.

In game terms, I would have no problem with letting a slain Malakite PC immediately spend saved character points on a new Vessel; this is one that was kept in the locker, either by the Superior's middleman or by the angel himself.