Part of Dunkelzahn’s investment return was going to be the salvation of those satellites before anyone else knew they could be successfully upgraded at a minimum cost. With the known numbers Archangel had been able to crunch, the additional satellites would have increased the dragon’s holdings by twenty percent. Fuchi, with their own fleet of suborbitals, could have felt threatened enough by that perceived encroachment to launch a pre-emptive strike at Dunkelzahn.