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Well this makes it sound like the Union is indeed using Andy’s help. And also that they probably aren’t keeping Andy in Tartarus.
I think they’re keeping her (let’s go with what Prevailer calls Andy) in Tartarus. It’s just that they’re kewping hwe awake. Her gift is useless to escape even if she wanted, so there’s bo danger in keeping her awake. And Tartarus is probably the safest place where she can be kept. It already has a Ultra guards that can ward off invaders and kidnappers.
It might have been smarter to keep her in a small cottage somewhere, but with the likes of Answerer around, it’s probably safe to assume that Andy will be found and be prepared to defend her if needed.
There is an obvious argument agains the Union having a powerful precog, which are the Process quotas. If they had a precog, they could predict who would survive. This would instantly multiply their number of Ultras by 30. Unless they are afraid the company reports the anomalously low mortality rate to Prevailer and She reduces their quotas even further.
Precogs are blind to retrocausal events though, and I suspect that new instances of The Process count as such. Like, in terms of how the Grabbies seem to work, you can’t predict a new Grabby arriving based on actions the lie partly outside the universe, using purely information from inside the universe. I’m pretty sure whenever a new delighting entity joins the universe, it alters the boundary conditions of the universe throughout all of time so that it would manifest at that point, and therefore every grabby instantiates into a version of the universe where no more Ultras will ever be made beyond that point (Which is true, so long as no new Grabbies interfere from outside). Most likely I would think Precogs see every instance of the Process as failed, and then need to be updated to account for the successful creation of a new Ultra.