My commander didn't read this book.
Quite so. My commander:
- is old, thoroughly and expensively cyborg, and remembers the Thargoids from before (but they're different enough now that other than a sense of foreboding that knowledge is not very helpful and until recently, widely covered up);
- as an EFP Founder, has a vague idea the Dark Wheel lost their way from being seekers of mystery to keepers of secrets some while back;
- doesn't care either way about any faction leaders;
- suspects some part of INRA probably survives, which she (now) wants nothing to do with;
- knows something about "Hexedit"'s clinical trials;
- cynically figures everyone in the galaxy is manipulative, even if they don't realise it, including the people who do the media, so doesn't consider any of the above anything particularly special or new;
- would have rolled her eyes at nearly all of what Salomé said, considered it completely useless information, and simply carried on doing what she's doing!