Well, if nothing else, to overcome the numbers advantage the two would have to be some pretty impressive bullshit. And the group's opinion is that if they are B.S. then they're not that kind of B.S. because they're hiding like this. Rita could probably make an attempt at translation/decoding the thing, but that would probably be after leaving or attacking; between physical size and technicality a translation could go as fast as 1.1 page sides per hour.<br/><br/>Of course, there is one simple, time saving reason to do the ambush. You never need to fear backdoors from dead personae. Well, rarely have to, Lilly corrects herself after a few moments of consideration. And if you have the time to do all this work, you have the time to put in some control and tracking stuff just to make sure that you're not going to lose an investment during 'down time' because it walked away. Plus they could have bodged in other programs for better connection and that's before a few people in the group might have strong emotional reasons to want to stop some unethical experimentation on people.