[Your hero-worship is showing again, Bil.]

They showed so much interest in retrieving Tyr, though. He in particular was not dispensable to them, even in his hopeless, lifeless state. By that point, they already had us as subjects for the Luceti Project, so it was peculiar that they were so aggravated by his disappearance. [Of course, he did intentionally rile them up to distract them, which only led to his abduction a short time later--at least, that was the rationale he had put together.]