[He put down the bottle and picked up the glass, though he just sort of held it and didn't drink from it yet.]

Wish I could put it like that. [Muttered to himself] But no.

They experimented with it.

[He let that sink in a few seconds before he continued.]

Don't know what happened on Phoebe- the whole moon got destroyed during the cover up - but I know what they did with it afterwards. They knew that it grew with access to radiation, and they knew it - I don't know how to put it - that it used humans, to grow itself.

So they thought, hey, you know what I think, let's give a hundred thousand belters on an asteroid a lethal dose of radiation and a bit of the protomolecule and see what the hell happens.