"How in the world could planetary scouts miss a sentient species?"

The scouts missed Bonilla, but Syd Thrift did not.

Our early probes and scouts missed it completely.

"Looks like they were hiding inside the giant's atmosphere, and our scouts missed 'em."

Foskatt and the other scout were still missing.

The two human scouts shouldn't have missed that in thirty days, Reeve argued.

"Well, only goes to show scouts don't miss too many people these days," said Holt.

She looked at them each in turn, then said, "Uno, are you certain your scouts missed nothing suspicious?

"If there is anything out there that the scouts missed, I will find it."

There's something else your scouts missed.