There it was. The hook is all but taken, but it needs some meat on it none the less. With only Bothari in the room (and the security feed being unrecorded, save for Illyan himself monitoring) he didn't have to worry on discretion.

"I need information. I need schematics. I need to know where the tech is kept, and record to be wiped. The names and identities of the children we'd be rescuing, to prepare proper shelter." Children, not clones. He hadn't been able to think in terms of clones in longer than Mark has been alive. "I have a fleet who will be able to get in without immediate ties back to Barrayar, but I'm not going to throw them in blind. It would be a massacre on both sides.

Mostly, I need someone who can go into Jackson's Whole and not be lost by the financial aspects and suborned by opportunities of the operation."