On 12/4/05, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > > Of course, since she is so preoccupued with the task of defending > against the Jenoine, it may be that she's just so used to delegating any > tasks that she doesn't absolutely have to do herself that she just had > StY do it without thinking about it too much. > Good point. That's what apprentices are for, right? Tedious grunt-work. Although there's no particular reason she *couldn't* have done the gene-scan herself, if she'd wanted to... maybe the Yendi Conspiracy was just gambling that she wouldn't. If she had, it wouldn't have exposed them to any threat at that point, since StY hadn't yet faked a gene-scan. Maybe they would have fallen back to plan B, "kill the baby." Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.