He nods at that, looking a little like he wants to sigh. "David wasn't much for information sharing, I believe," But it was a different time now. Different Spades were reigning.

"Maybe we should centralize research. The Clubs and the Diamonds have the most extensive libraries," he says, "but we have fairly extensive locked archives that I'm just digging into now. And I was thinking...there are things happening at the outposts. We should try to get reports of what they are." In case they matched up with anything they might find.

Of course, he had no confidence that Victor Fox would be all that into information sharing.