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== Petey's apparent abandonment of the Toughs was [[
* The Toughs' well known association with the Fleetmind was drawing too much attention from the UNS, and Petey is rather fond of them. He needed a way to keep them safe while he didn't need them, and appearing to sacrifice them to UNS control was the best way to do it. Since he's capable of messing around with a Battleplate's AI, as well as providing the technical material for the nanite plans, he probably hid a switch in the false memories of Tagon's crew to restore their real memories.
** [[Jossed]], he said he can't restore their memories, just flag false ones.
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* Alternately, there could turn out to be ''fewer'' than 70 maxims, inverting the original joke. The highest-numbered rule revealed in canon is #37.
== Int-Aff-Int was in on the Schuul plot to start a civil war in the UNS ==
This doesn't fit their characterization as [[A Lighter Shade of Grey]] than most of the UNS intelligence community, but it would explain why they not only were [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-12 desperately] [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-09 trying to buy warships] just before book 15, but were trying to buy them outside the UNS's sphere of influence.
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* The deal was part of the not-so-secret offer. They just wanted to secure whatever share they could. As to secrecy, there are two reasons:
*# by definition, ''[[Internal Affairs]]'' means their adversary is ''the rest of UNS agencies'' and
*# good old [[Plausible Deniability]].
== The ghosts thing was indeed just sewer acoustics, but done intentionally ==
It just seems the most probable. The evidence against it is that until overloaded, sewage system worked fine, but this could point to either miscalculation, intended delayed effect or being done at the time of the massacre or clogging.
* A. Some engineer had morbid sense of humour, or maybe someone managed to subtly infect fabbers in the Ob'enn dock. (from /Headscratchers page)
* B. Petey got a little crazy or desperate before the ghost thing, so he tweaked the sewage system (not too complicated for a high-end AI with a bay full of idling fabber bots nobody watches or will audit) as a psychological warfare operation against the traitors, then removed the memory of the deed so that he won't be forced to reveal or undo the sabotage. Maybe even weakened safeguards against further insanity. (from /Headscratchers page)
* C. One of the dead guys (from either group) was infected with an advanced nanobot swarm. Not inconceivable, seeing things Laz'R'Us swarm did. After being flushed, the swarm rigged the sewers to produce spooky sounds, then destroyed evidence of tampering, including itself.
* C1. It was supposed to do exactly this, after being excreted normally and requisitioning small amounts of materials from the sewage, so that it won't be detected for a while. The corpse clog allowed it to build up very fast without being noticed.
* C2. Someone expected the body to undergo such improper disposal, thus knew of the plot.
* D. As (C), but it was intended for delivery via the gate-clone as a part of psychological warfare operation against the Gatekeepers, whether instigated by one of their own factions (they ''are'' ever plotting to the point of keeping secrets from themselves, after all) or someone who suspected what they do. Perhaps somehow linked to the Nejjat incident? If those saboteurs didn't know details, using military personnel with high clearance as the bait is a very sensible move, too.
== Arc-R-Us ==
"Archie" resulted from a nanobot swarm with distributed AI (not unlike early Laz'R'Us swarms in Xinchub and Kevyn), used in a more aggressive attack of the same nature as above, but aimed at information gathering (which it jolly well did, collecting horns from the whole habitat).
* A. There's no reason why the swarm could not build or hijack hypernodes, and it obviously had more than enough of opportunities to do this even before finishing (or even starting) the massacre. When the Toughs arrive, they don't detect any hypernode jamming around the habitat, so nothing would stop this. It probably finished the transmission long ago.
* B. Whether due to evolving out of control or data loss, it became disinclined to finish mission by reporting to (or being collected by) its creators. Early on it talked raving mad, after all.
* C. Either its creators or Gatekeeper security who noticed the problem too late may have started the chain of events leading to the Toughs capturing it and Petey getting the data.
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