People get pretty hypersensitive about this stuff. I wonder if it would become an issue of race if they all of a sudden decided to add a black soldier, an ageist issue if they added a character who saw too many moons, or a lookism if the soldier was super ugly.
Although you couldn't pick them there has been a black soldier (voiced by Ice Cube) and an older soldier, probably not as old as you're thinking. With how graphics work for the games I'm sure there have been ugly soldiers too.
Yeah, that makes sense. I will would like the choice to play them in multiplayer, though.