That was enough to get me there. I hadn't noticed that in the status bar area.
But the scenario, is that importing agi/sci0, the pic palette is generated. Copy and pasting the view images, the palette comes as close as is defined in 999 without embedding the pic palette instead which I don't really want to do if I don't have to. The blues used in 999 aren't blues used in sci0. I needed to add the blues to the 999 palette, but I wasn't sure which blue and in which position I was looking at in the picture resource. The status bar tells me though, position and rgb. I needed to match up the positions so that the pic resource didn't default the colors to something unexpected.