"Ah hell," Bacon says. "That's-- is it a dispute over who created what? And who's getting the credit and the money? I'd assume it was an issue of competition if they weren't your teammates... though I guess one of them might have started up their own, rival company."

Sorry. They'd be interested in talking to you about your AI work, but this seems more important right now, given that they think the Incident that landed them into this mess was caused by corporate espionage and not the regular kind.