"That’s just the point, isn’t it?" Villiers said, looking Lanier in the eye. "Renraku has been putting out a lot of new patents, designs, and technology lately. Too damn much. It just doesn’t fit what we know about their capabilities. It contradicts all the predictions and models I pay the marketing department so much money to develop. Renraku used to be so predictable you could set your watch by them, Miles. They were triple-A, but they had a certain pattern to them that we’d learned to anticipate. Now nothing is like we predicted and Renraku is breathing down our necks. You know that the Yamanas want me removed as CEO?"