Baelheit mulls over her words, carefully and slowly. He is clearly a man who considers before he speaks. "Yes, the gadgetry is merely a source of revenue," he admits, "a way to fund my primary research into cybernetics. I assure you, GLaDOS, Mintaka Industries has not lost sight of its goals -- far from it. It is, perhaps, the least public of my endeavors of late, but the cybernetics division is alive and well."

He looks over the mobile platform, his expression almost as unreadable as the platform's general lack of one. "But if it's resources you're after...it begs the question of what Aperture would bring to the partnership."