10,000 for Tau Ceti

A Preliminary Passenger Manifest for the Starship Memphis

It was the ten thousand Pioneers who were the focus of most of the energy, most of the urgency, most of the romance, most of the anger. They were the elect, the chosen. They were the ones who would pass, knowingly and willingly, through what one popular commentator dubbed "the one-way door." To those who would stay behind, the Pioneers were humanity's hope, or its arrogance; its idealism, or its idiocy; but most often, all of that and more.

It was different in Houston and Munich and Tokyo, in Brazil and Kenya, on Takara, on Memphis herself. To Karin Oker and the rest of Selection, to Hiroko Sasaki and the whole of Allied, the Pioneers were the moving pieces in a complex ballet too serious to be a game. Ten thousand to pluck from homes and families across six continents. Ten thousand to process through the training and transshipment centers. Ten thousand to lift skyward a hundred at a time and ferry to the great sky city which would be their new and possibly last home. Ten thousand to meld into a working community that could survive fifty years in the crucible of interstellar flight.

Ten thousand for Tau Ceti.

-- from The Quiet Pools

Manifest submitted to Takara Control and Prainha Emigration Registry in compliance with S.L. 244.34b and O.S.C. 34-BAK-35.2

The following Pioneer Options have been exercised and Chi-positive status has been verified by the Selection Section.

Last Revised: January ,(, /),(

For the Diaspora Project, Allied Transcon
Michael Kube-McDowell, Chief Purser, Memphis

Return to K-Mac's Base Station.