Time passed as the five of them began fleshing out the details of their overall business model and strategy. It wasn't easy accounting for everything they needed, and they knew that they would need to have their work vetted by the relevant experts to ensure that they could maintain OpSec, operational security, to the degree that they needed to.
Once human civilization realized what they were capable of, they knew that every force in the world would do their best to try and crack the absurd rate at which their company found and vetted worlds to be infected, even if they were hidden by manifolds. They would need to go out of their way to make sure that the information didn't leak, and that required a tremendous amount of preparation and planning.
