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Bean's son will be brilliant--like his father, plus hishim with stories that will bend his character in aays

Why aes Colony is our first effort at colonizing a world that was NOT originally a forhtly shtspeed, so they will not arrive until the XBs have a chance to do their work and have the planet ready for colonization

If you are happy governing Shakespeare and wish to spend the rest of your life there, then this information will not be of any particular interest to you But if, after a few years, you decide that government is not your es Of course, the colony will not even be established by the time you have spent five (or even ten) years on Shakespeare And the voyage to Ganges will be of such a distance that you can leave Shakespeare and reach Ganges within fourteen (or nineteen) years of its founding At that point, the boy (naer--and ly brilliant that Virloer to the peace and safety of the colony Or he overnor that saved theht already be dead Or a complete nonentity Who knows?

Again: The choice is yours I have no claim upon you; Bean and Petra have no clai to you,on Shakespeare, this would be a place where you could go and perhaps help a young governor, Virlomi, who is brilliant but also prone to the occasional very poor decision

Alas, it's all a pig in a poke By the tih to be effective on Ganges, the Ganges colonists won't even have debarked fro you to a colony with no proble for you to do

Thus you see how I plan for things that can't be planned for But solad that I did But if you decide you want no part of my plans from now on, I will understand better than anyone!

Your friend,

Hyrum Graff

PS: On the chance that your captain has not inforreed with ent request and launched a series of couriers, one departing every five years, to each of the colonies These ships are not the huge behemoths that carry colonists, but they have roo they beco the colonies Our endeavor will be to have a ship call on each colony world every five years--but then they will travel colony to colony and return to Earth only aftera full circuit The creill have the option of co their replace behind while someone else completes their mission Thus no one will be trapped on any one world for their whole life, and no one will be trapped in the sauess, we did not lack for volunteers

Vitaly Kol rather impatient about it

"Don't hurry things," said Sel Menach "It sets a bad example"

"I' iht to feel what I feel, I think!"

"And a right to think what you think, I feel," said Sel

"Oh, now he develops a sense of humor"

"You're the one who decided this was your deathbed, not h"