Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The Burrowers
The mantis-led Faction Wars team that took its ball and went home the day the AI learned infant AIs are jettisoned into stars; the manufacturers of Macro AIs at Hive Home, accused by Princess Formidable of selling the Kua-Tin 'a damaged and deranged AI'. 'We'll circle back to it on a different date.'
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Progression
Took their ball and went home (ch. 46); accused in orbit (epilogue).