 Who did the ship’s crew expect would meet them on arrival?
If success comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth; friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships will be long since dead. "We face the unpleasant realization that what was feared is probably true—that worlds such as the Sun's are a rare accident, and that we may complete our search without finding even one new Earth. Certainly the building of this ship and its two sisters, the immense expenditure of time and labor and energy stores that went into them, left Earth's economy drained and exhausted. It would be a one-way journey—even if enough fuel remained, there would be little point in returning to Earth after more than forty thousand years.
 Maybe nobody
 The other Quest ships  Warships on attack  A parade  Maybe nobody