The Open Intellect Pacifist Network, its associated charity, and Rosetta vanish after sending Carl the Homestead flyer.
Zev tells Carl that his sponsor transmitted the emergency box several days earlier, before he selected Miami. Liaison authorities seized it, but the AI ultimately restored the delivery.
After sending the package, the entire sponsor organization and everyone connected to its charity disappeared. Nobody knows whether they fled, were taken, or suffered another fate; Rosetta is among the missing. Outside observers suspect the disappearance is tied to whatever has been arranged at Shepherd's House.
An interstellar sponsor network diagram with every person and office blinking out at once.
The disappearance makes the sponsor's shelter message potentially both a rescue signal and a trap.