"Yeah but he was still salvageable then," Hicks replied. "He wouldn't have let you put him in a cryotube if he couldn't be fixed. Either something happened to the EEV or something happened on the planet." He shook his head. He supposed it didn't really matter. One Bishop unit was pretty much like another, though theirs had developed a few interesting quirks over the years. That knife trick for one and allowing a human hand to be put underneath his own during that trick for another. Technically they weren't supposed to do things like that.
He tensed automatically at the question and rather jerkily poured himself another drink. He swallowed half in one go before answering. "Questioned me... tortured me. They... wanted to know what happened. The colony's computers were gone and the Sulaco's records stopped after the APC and the dropship were wasted."