There are billions of lives at stake. Tinkering with the organization of human society — it never ends well.

Free people have a natural advantage on frontiers. Authoritarian subjects wait for permission, but free people take action and innovate. They can rapidly expand human presence in cislunar space — before totalitarian powers seize the L-points and hold them against us.

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system — much less a brain — the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.