I'd make a simple move that would have saved my two favorite secondary characters, Afran and Arbron.
Nothlits can reacquire the morphing technology, I mean it makes scientific sense (as much as any of this does
), if Tobias can be acquired then they should be able to obtain the technology too, it's their new body so yeah.
Afran could have morphed something not dependant on Kandrona rays, and joined the Animoprhs or the free Hork-Bajir, Arbron didn't need to end up getting killed in the rain forest. I consider being exiled to the ocean to be a terrible fate, I hated that. They took an experienced soldier and threw her away forever, she can't even hang with them after the war, they had no way to contact her, no way to make sure sharks or orcas hadn't done her in, they ignore the dozen or so other ways she could have been saved and just make her a whale. Woopty freakin' doo, nice one, Jake.