Chapter 11Somehow, even though the scale was nearly identical, Silver knew that the corridor was tiny.
When the Foundation first began designing spaceships, they were sized appropriately for humans even though the initial concept of using homunculi was already cemented in place. The rumor was that the engineer who first raised shrinking the size of the vessels to match the homunculi was laughed out of the room. It was their manager who got the praise and a bonus that paid for an early tropical retirement.
For all their bluster about the betterment of humanity, Silver was well aware that the Foundation was every bit the same case of the congealed messes of people rising to the top, as everywhere else.
“If that’s true, why aren’t I on the board?”
“I do not understand, Doctor Ballard.”
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