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"Ruc, how do you plan to get everyone on that ship in time?"

"Launch Control will be organized by Robot Control Services, which will assist our service people in boarding. The Potentiality class colonial ship being built by the First Foundation Construction Center, or FFCC, has a total of twenty large entrance and exit positions, each of them designed to allow a quick influx onto the ship. In general only those who signed up have any desire to move to another planet, so we should not have any need for access control to the launch facility. Loading one million passengers is certainly a daunting ordeal, and it should take about 36 hours, so we have assigned arrival times for all of the passengers allowing them to wait until we are ready before standing in lines."

"There seems to be a lot of media interest in this, specifically that the Chief Justice would allow a different political system on a new colony, and second, that anyone would want to leave the cradle of our world. How much more difficulty do you think your members will have with living on the colony world?"

"Well, as you can tell, the Potentiality will be simply an incredibly large ship. It will dwarf the largest previously constructed ship by a factor of over a thousand. It is the most expensive venture ever in Foundation history. But, for all that cost, we have provided all the basic life needs for our population, on board and at the colony. Soon after we arrive on Anarchista, the Starliner bunch will begin service to and from, allowing comforts to come to us, as and when we can afford them. It will be rough, but it gives us a chance to set up economics and social life all over again, like the Foundation did after the Creator died."

"When do you think Potentiality will be finished?"

"Well, we've spent a lot of money to monopolize use of the spacecraft construction facilities. The Starliner group is the only other with ships that need constructing, and they have no market for starliner service until we get our colony set up, so they are waiting. Also demand for satellite setups was low enough that we managed to get priority. Because of that, and the incredibly large construction center, built by a bunch of citizens who share our ideas of the potential for space, we will have our ship complete in a mere two or three months. It have taken us well over three years to design and research it, and it will be launching on the second or third tenth of this year. Our allies at the Starliner center should have their first ship running by the fourth or fifth tenth of this year."

"Well, thank you for your time, Ruc. For Citizens in need of recap, Ruc is an organizer for the Anarchists' Alliance, a group which has gathered a million supporters to set up a colony on a world they have renamed Anarchista."

While Ruc was enjoying his newfound popularity, Zelleck learned of his test results for the positions of onboard warehousing and pilot. "Well, Zelleck, or 15x's12907x's9383676x, whichever you prefer, you scored 38 out of a 128 on the pilot test. The threshold for the best nine on that was 62. For warehouse officer you scored 117. You seem to have a good knowledge and set of actions for that position. I have a few questions for you."

Zelleck was a bit taken back at his low pilot score, he wanted that position the most, but he was not surprised at the warehouse score. "Zelleck is fine. I don't need to be all that official."

"Zelleck then, where did you learn so much about warehousing? It says here your citizen factory put the youngs to work in its other role, testing superlubricants. How did you learn warehousing for that role?"

"Well, they decided to put me to the task of organizing the entire superlubricant stocks. They had 256 different kinds of superlubricant, for all of the common needs, and some uncommon ones. They wanted me to maximize intake and outtake from the warehouse. So I got some extra training and education, and dropped some of the tester training everyone else had. I was pretty good at shuffling about all the different types, and keeping them well packed."

"Good, I'm going to place you as chief warehouse officer on the Starliner, Luxury class, number 1, as soon as it gets built. That is a top ranking assistant to the captain, good pay, good quarters. Tommorow, we will move you to the operations center we've set up for the crew of the first ship. Then you can work with the captain on all the different things, other than citizens and fixtures, that will be stored onboard and accepted from passengers."