“There are two hundred Council. We are collectively responsible for the ship. We financed it—” Kyu shook her head. “Sorry—we made it possible to build John Glenn. We planned this trip. Five of us are High Council, and have ultimate responsibility for everyone. There are a lot of Colonists—people picked to come because they have specific knowledge we will need when we get to Ymir. And we can’t afford to wake them all up here—we’ll need them on Ymir. It would be horrible to risk everyone from Earth someplace as dangerous as Selene when we’ll need their-genes and Earth-educated minds more later.”
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