 What is significant about the captain's initial reaction to Mr. Janssens attache case being stolen?
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. "As I recall," Ellason said, "there was something about stunners." "Assuming no accident in space," Phipps said, "it was a wrong decision. We don't think anything is going to happen, but if it does, we want to get an impersonal, unprejudiced view. The theft of Carver Janssen's attache case occurred on the thirty-first day out. In Ellason's mind the incident, though insignificant from the standpoint of the ship as a whole, could very well be the cause of dissension later on. Janssen's case contained vegetable and flower seeds—thousands of them, according to the Captain's Bulletin, the ship's daily newsletter which went to all hands and passengers. In the Bulletin the captain appealed to the thief to return the case to Mr. Janssen. 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. On the thirty-fourth day a witness turned up who said he had seen a man emerging from Janssen's compartment with the black case. "If it is true," Branson told Ellason, "the theft must be the work of a psychotic. Janssen lived in that part of the ship known as the First Quadrant, and those who lived in that quadrant—more than seven hundred men, women and children—felt that the thief must surely live in Quadrant Two or Four. Elias Cromley, who had the compartment next to Janssen's, sounded the consensus when he said, "Surely a man wouldn't steal from his own quadrant, now would he, Mr. Ellason?" He introduces a countermeasure, proof he exists, which is any overt act, sometimes violent. She told the captain she had been attacked in her compartment while her husband was in the ship's library. She said the culprit was a husky man wearing a red rubber mask, and though her description of what he had done did not appear in the story in the newsletter, it lost no time in penetrating every compartment of the ship. Branson remained seated behind his desk, unperturbed, saying, "I have no crewmen to spare for police duty."
 It shows that the captain wants to give people the impression that he thinks the passengers are all okay
 It reveals his negligence as a leader  It proves that the captain does not think anything could be wrong  It shows that the captain wants to give people the impression that he thinks the passengers are all okay  It shows the passengers that the captain cannot be trusted