"I dunno about that." Milo sat in an easy chair, nursing a coffee. In the background, clouds floated by. "From everything Dr. Landers said, this is as much about political one-upmanship and military strategy as any real desire to seed the stars. I think they’ll send at least a garrison to the first habitable planet we report, just so they can say they’re first. And to claim the system, of course. I don’t think we count toward that."