I know. But people around here have short tempers. [ Herself included, though she's not threatening Joe. ] It's hard to tell what might be important to us, when you live with it.

[ Sigh. ]

With this information and what you know about the government in this universe, would you say it's within the realm of possibility that at least part of the crew of the Tranquility was under orders to create genetically modified human beings to be used in less-than-peaceful colonization?