I wonder if it's relevant that Tempus and I are ordinary members while Shell and C-D are staff? Not suggesting any skulduggery goings-on or anything, just that it might have something to do with levels of access. I'm just spitballing; I know almost nothing about the more arcane mysteries of computers, or magic picture boxes as I call them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'