I said Maine went after the A.I., not the ship. Tex and York still hijacked the ship, trust me. She was trying to save the Alpha.

[ This is dicey territory, all right, and the kind he knows he has to be careful with, but it's hard to not immediately correct her. ]

It was never Maine who wanted the A.I., anyway. It was Sigma. He believed that if he could reunite all the fragments, he could recreate the Alpha. Achieve metastability. That's what they called themselves, once they took over Maine's mind. The Meta.

[ His tone lowers, here, and though he knows she's probably going to try and deny that, too, there's a heavy weight to his words. ]