"I got the general impression that what was not told to the mission team considerably outweighed what was told." She had not actually interrogated anyone in Med Bay, because she always thought it was rude to talk with people who couldn't get away from you. "And of course the GIA might show up and say 'That was exactly what we wanted you to do, so sorry, we thought you'd fail if we gave you exact instructions. Your naivete has served us well, ha ha ha!'" She made that last 'ha' sound particularly bitter.

"Well, since I don't have any ploom seeds at the moment, and I doubt I have its DNA written out anywhere, it will have to wait. If I was going to go to the much trouble of building seeds, I'd be better off making something that the Ohm were allergic to."