6. "RE: (Someone Else's Mini) Blind Jump"
In response to message #4
They could have pulled Idet's name from the "carefully prepared package of electronic data that no one, no one at all, had expected to need to use", but I do agree with the larger point. I think if I'd been given Ashanti's mission I would carefully not be seen during the test run; I'd show up in high planetary orbit a month or two later, after everyone had processed a bit, and claim to have learned the language from television.