What if the whole Anaander division happened because they assimilated a "plant" and she had a few ideas that contaminated everything? (I mean, that is definitely complicating the situation, because with a lag between experience and assimilation-of-memories, there's time to come to different conclusions... But hey, memetic contamination would be FUN! Implant the mindmeld stuff, sure, but in such a way that when opened to the rest of the MiannaaiMind, the experiences flow both ways. Someone might even have thought that raising a Rogue Anaander would enable their pet-one to take over the MianMind....)

...do I like evil thoughts? O-:> #haloonnastick