All Comments on 'Founders Ch. 09'

could you perhaps initial each text to identify the sender for idiots like me?

When I posted this, the text message dialog was all neatly grouped together by speaker. I double checked this on my original copy. Something in the posting / moderation process must have disrupted this. I'll post a replacement for this chapter with the text grouped again, and hopefully it will take.

So every child will have a biological connection the Zach? The entire line will be a blood relative, regardless of how many generations there are? No other male is contributing to the gene pool?

A correction has been submitted and is pending. This chapter was improperly formatted. Now I know how to do the special stuff to prevent extra line breaks from showing up in my text.

The text of this chapter is now grouped together as originally written. Sorry about the mis-formatting.

Zach is going to have at least eleven kids, yes, but that's not all the kids, or all the sperm. Remember the frozen sperm they have with them that they were supposed to be using? Not only that, more men will show up on the scene, certainly in three years when the next batch of colonists shows up on Mars. Maybe even sooner? But who will these new men be? What I'm trying to say is that it's not yet time to abandon all hope.