Just a general observation. When we find whatever the flower ships are taking from the barnacles (assuming they're taking something and not injecting something), we'll know what they're looking for in our ships during the hyperdictions, it would seem to me. My theory is that when they beam us in the hyperdiction, they're looking to see if we can give them/they can take the same thing they can get from the barnacles (fuel, repair materials, ???). In the hyperdictions, they haven't found what they want yet, so they just move along. When they find "it" at the barnacles, they proceed to suck it out and move on. Not sure if there's some analysis that could be done to identify the materials or combination of materials they're getting from the barnacles, and then we'll know what we should or shouldn't be carrying, depending on what happens to us after they hit us with their beam when we have the "right" materials.
