The Valtay plan to preserve investor confidence by claiming current profits while assigning the season's failures to the doomed Borant Corporation.
Zev says Borant will be liquidated after the crawl regardless of the final result. Meanwhile, the Valtay have stepped back from day-to-day production after the seventh-floor collapse and the destructive end of the sixth.
Carl and Donut are generating unusually high revenue, much of it at sponsor expense. The Valtay can present that profit as evidence of their own performance while arguing that any operational disaster came from Borant's mudskipper management.
The distancing also protects the Valtay's investor story for the next crawl, which they are scheduled to run. Zev's own fate depends on unresolved conditions back home.
A corporate flowchart directing profit toward the Valtay and blame toward a dissolving Borant logo.
The strategy explains why production leadership tolerates chaos while preparing to discard Zev's employer.