Tson
... the moment Primary started looking into the programs of the drones, the data splitting stopped beforehand unnoticed, affected drones only sending the missiondata over the different proxy, what he did notice was... that they were completely intact, they did not deviate from their normal programming even in the slightest...
The next moment instead of 10, a hundred drones started deviating from their normal proxies, sending drone ID´s off into space whenever Primary didn´t directly access the code, at the same time drones with the copied ID´s, which were a few hundred thousand already by this point, started requesting "critical mission data", from random places all over the network, from galactical maps, to connection data, over to useless things like surface temperatures of certain stars, while some of them requested additional personalities, and mainframe AI data...