Chapter 12 Two months. They’d been on Terra for two months. In that time they’d reported to President Hayden, who was as much an asshole as she remembered. They’d reported to the PPA, and it was then that they discovered that the expedition to Nibiru hadn’t been the only one. It was only the most successful one. The need to find planets for the surplus population of Terra was becoming critical; not only was the atmosphere becoming toxic, but the overcrowding was reaching a Malthusian point. They had no problem finding intelligent, capable people who were more than willing to portal to Nibiru—there hadn’t been the first time, when the odds of them returning had been negligible, and now that they’d been promised periodic visits home, that many more were eager to see what ‘the planet of

