Empress killable legitimately

I think JMS is a victim of copypasta at some point here.

They probably knew about the bug, then when they went to implement Cygnus, they fixed it themselves. Then, when they were implementing other updates, they accidentally pasted in the broken Cygnus again, thus breaking it when it was originally working. We'll probably have to wait for the DB fix now too, though you'd think it would be a 10 second fix.

No, Cygnus was glitched when they first implemented her. When the Japanese players went to kill her, she would kick them out of the map, back to Future Henesys. In a patch or two later, that was fixed and Cygnus became killable.