Not alerting the Starways Congress would have given Lusitania more time to take care of the Descolada and form relations with the piggies. I suppose it was used as a literary element in that it sped up the story. Also, I guess super-intelligent machines who exist within the most fundamental physics ...

Why exactly did Jane basically let the Starways Congress know about Miro's violations of law in dealings with the Pequinos by allowing the satellite data to fall into the hands of people who understood what was happening? This led to the problem of the Lusitania fleet (I haven't yet finished Xenocid...