"Yeah," she says. "They have depots at each of the cardinal points in Zephyr, and they bring things in for storage on the reqular. Not sure if they house them there after they've run any tests they want to run, or if it's just a backlog of things they've decided don't need urgent attention."

A moment's pause, and she adds, "But there's got to be more to it than that, unless they're bringing in a lot more things than they are people. The warehouses are huge - might be worth going back with a bit less of a time crunch to see what information can be pulled from their systems."