Oh man, yeah, my Infiltration is pretty annoyed about that. When she signed on, it was with the understanding that she'd be working with her Real Life Science Hero, not Dr Eskandar's dick of a replacement. But then, he is the boss man's darling, so it's probably not surprising that he got tapped to build the Core when she vanished. Like, I get the impression that a lot of it was his design from the start anyway.

Still. I bet Dr Eskandar would have been able to collaborate like a reasonable human being.

[Salty? Thorne? How could you guess?]