You should probably try it tonight, Aegis says, not with me, I'm a bad test, ask Qiaochu or one of yours.

Then she pauses.

Something has occurred to her.

"Why," she says aloud, "are there people on the ships? We can take control of them remotely. Why aren't they unmanned drones set up for remote control for a computer or a larger group of Sol-orbiting remote pilots to handle?"