Taking what Furlann had told them and running with it, Andy informed the soldiers about Trahn’s fabricated emergency with the Compers and his intention to make the confrontation as bloody as possible simply as a means to a political end. He didn’t say a lot about the Confed threat—thinking that a straightforward connective chain would work better to convince the people that Trahn was leading them the wrong way—but he did emphasize the danger of leaving the border unguarded while troops battled the Compers. He had no compunction about telling every node he met about the illegal orders Tom had received and the attempted murder that had been his reward for trying to do his duty and refusing to go along—it was only because Tom requested it that he didn’t mention Furlann by name, simply referring to her as the "failed assassin" who revealed much of the plot.