(I am joining finally. I've gotten out of the slump I was in and I got that ol' RP itch again.<br/><br/>Well, if there WAS a Joldan mucking about with AI's in a secret lab near the surface, there's only one Joldan that has ever really left the collective to do his own thing. Of course, he'd be awful pissed if someone stole any of his technology. Though, supposedly this story is a prequel to Vore Tribes, so I dunno then, because Marx wouldn't have left the collective and Olshinzi wouldn't have unleashed his techno-smarts on the rest of the Joldan yet. Other than the timing, it would be convenient, but perhaps they discovered a former rival of the Joldan? The bug people did clear a lot of different things out of the tunnels over the centuries they were down there. Perhaps someone was plotting revenge?<br/><br/>Back to the point of this story, yeah mostly. Treant is approximately accurate, but as always I throw my own spin on things. Sakura said something about deciding who he discovered first, so I was thinking I'd drop my full character bio then. Sorry to be mysterious! )