The ticket out of the limitations that bind us to these pathetic little bubbles of rock and air. If we master it, we can apply it. We become our own gods. Imagine human beings able to live in hard vacuum without a suit or under the crushing atmosphere of a gas giant...able to hibernate long enough to travel to the stars...without this work, humanity will be left unarmed, ignorant and vulnerable to an enemy who already has fired the first shot.

Protogen scientist