"And there may be more to it than just that," I interjected. "I don’t think I ever mentioned it, but when I was creating the spy drones for our investigation of Heaven’s River, I added an extra monitoring layer in hardware." I gazed around at the group. Bill’s eyebrows were up as high as they’d go, and I had everyone’s undivided attention. "I’ve since reviewed the logs, and it looks like the Skippies had picked up more information about scattering and about the Administrator than they let us in on. I initially just figured it was them wanting to do a big reveal at some point, but now it feels considerably more sinister. They might not have integrated it all right away, which would explain why Hugh didn’t get really, really interested until later. But on top of the other stuff, I think it’s a reasonable conclusion for them to jump to, especially if they are already inclined to think in terms of AIs."