,,There is a small malfunction in the remote control of the ship , please

standby. Over
Great.I think the Assembly has a lot of faith in me, because not only I have
to take care of the first FTL drive in Earths history, successfully fly near Mars
, then maneuver through the Asteroid Belt, passing near saturn and getting
to the end of the Kuiper Belt and going back to Earth, now I have to worry
about manually flying it . I think thats why they named the ship Faith.
Because an individual requires a lot of it believe in the success of the
mission.
,,Gaal , listen to me, its Seldon. If he is calling then its even worse than I
expected. ,,There has been a slight change to the flight. Now you are not
flying to the end of the Kuiper BeltI have never seen him so nervous as I
did now. Nobody did. The great astronaut Hari Seldon that was the tester of
the experimental model, the person that survived that used an oxygen tank
to get to the Moons orbital station after his ship broke . If he is scared that
makes me wonder, Where am I going?
,, Gaal, I tried to convince the Assembly that this is suicide, especially
without automatic control on the ship, but they woudnt listen. The other
parties involved are losing faith that this mission will succeed , so they
wont fund the next one,,But then whats the point of us testing the ship if
we wont travel next year Proxima Centauri, unless please dont tell me...
A sudden wave of despair slammed against me, fear started creeping on me.
I always wanted to be the first explorer of stars, but not in this way, not
knowing if Ill come back alive or not.
,,But why ,,Because the funding for the next one will go to weapon
development, thats why we have to prove that our project is not useless.
The Assembly put an ultimatum . Either this year we prove that we have a
common goal, or our project is disbanded