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Stochastic Genius
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
―Isaac Newton
The stochastic genius of the BrainTrust started slow. First Amanda did a fleet-wide broadcast announcing that the blockade would continue indefinitely even though they had the vaccine, and food would be rationed.
Forty-eight hours later, after everyone in the archipelago had received the vaccine, Amanda lifted quarantine of the Chiron and reopened the internship gangways. Coincident with this enabling support for collaboration and cooperation, fruit- and vegetable-filled plant containers started showing up in the passages, in the promenades, and in the parks. As people saw other people carrying pots with beans and zucchini and tomatoes, ever more people started copying the idea.
Soon the Helios
