yeah I got General Carrodus as one of the level 9 champion picks (i think at 400 fame) and as far as i know, he's supposed to be the "canon" leader for capitar. I actually looked up Carrodus and Kul-al-Kulan in the XML files and re-created them as custom sovs for their respective faction. ha dto fill in some blanks since the Carrodus champion is level 9 and has stuff like Air 3/Life 3 which might be slightly overpowered for a level one sov 
It's fairly easy to add them to the game as custom sov, so maybe the devs will eventually consider adding them back in as premade characters. I think the only real difference between the standard sovs and the custom guys is the voiceover at the very start of a new game. I could personally live without that, but presumably it wouldn't be that much work to record a person reading the few lines of text, either?