My reputation and my life are bound up directly with the SQUIP. If I believed that failure was a likely outcome, associating myself with it would be as irrational as a death wish. While I'm clearly not the only person who matters in this equation, I'm willing to stake a great deal on this particular gamble, and I don't exactly consider myself insane.

[Some would.]

New operating parameters have been set since the dream. If it doesn't follow those, I'll reevaluate.