When he was granted permission by an uninformed party. I've always had a bad feeling about Tristan, in general. Looking back, yeahh, we should have suspected he was just trying to boost his ego, and probably also wanted the ever-so-precious "title" so bad simply to spite those here at SFGHQ.
Reasons that, neither of which, like I said, were in the best interest of SAGE or SFGHQ, but he failed to understand that, and instead, took everything personally. He went into long, uninteresting tangents regarding the personal issues he has with SFGHQ, (several times) trying to tell Instant and I that we were simply "caving" to the fictional "pressure" we were receiving.
It was really funny.