I'm not saying they're not important, I'm saying the dream smp cast didn't let them get any lore and never gave them a chance to become important. They're important now but it seems like a patch job to pretend that they always had lore when all of their "lore" moments were for someone else. Ie the pet war isn't known as niki's lore but rather techno's intro when it should have been for her. The writers did them dirty. They SHOULD be more important. I mean Connor got more lore then them and he's been around for way less time.