 How long did it take for the passengers to form a police force?
The Weblor I had taken off on the first trip to Antheon five years before with a thousand families, reached the planet with less than five hundred surviving colonists. Upon the return to Earth a year later, the crew's report of suffering and chaos during the year's outgoing voyage was twisted, distorted and fragmentary. It ended with passengers engaging in open warfare with each other and the crew. "No weapons were allowed on the ship, but you must remember the colonists were selected for their intelligence and resourcefulness. Basically, it was an instrument which would open distant vistas to colonization, reducing the shoulder-to-shoulder pressure of a crowded solar system. A gigantic, hollow spike, the ship would never land anywhere, but would circle Antheon as it circled Earth, shuttling its cargo and passengers to the promised land, the new frontier. A space-borne metropolis, it would be the home for three thousand persons outward bound, only the crew on the return trip. To make it easier for you, I suggest you think of this journey strictly from the observer viewpoint. He said it was significant that all en route had passed stability tests, and that it was to the ship's discredit that someone with criminal tendencies should have been permitted aboard. This, then, was what happened when you took three thousand strangers and stuck them in a can for a year.
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