Abene took a sharp breath. She said, "It has to be the tractor array. There’s no other real benefit for GrayCris." In the feed, she flicked away the assumption squares for the actions of a theoretical station-bound GrayCris operative. "We know from the drone there is no controller for the combat bots, no one aboard the transit station sending orders to them. They are original equipment, meant to defend the facility until it collapsed naturally into the planet, leaving no evidence that it was an illegal mining operation. Wilken and Gerth didn’t know about the bots and weren’t sent to kill us, because killing us is not the goal. The goal is to let the facility be destroyed as planned. The thing that prevents the facility being destroyed is the tractor array. Therefore Wilken and Gerth were sent here to do something, and they thought the only consequence of that something was that the tractor array would fail, and we would be forced to leave the facility. We would all return to the transit station and they would leave aboard the next cargo ship, with no one the wiser." She slipped out of the feed and turned to me. "But what could they have done? They were with us the whole time."