“We looked . . . the High Council looked at the problem,” Gabriel said carefully, “and the Astronaut program verifies. To build an antimatter generator, we need manpower. We’d have to warm half the ship. The garden wouldn’t feed them or recycle enough air, and we don’t have the room either. They’d use up all our resources. We’d die. “Second possibility is to build habitats like the asteroid civilizations in Sol system. What’s wrong with that?” Wayne snorted, though he knew he was being tested. “The Belt cities needed too much Artificial Intelligence, too much nanotech, too much of everything
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