So, when exactly did this ship-wide workaholic fever start? Wayne found himself pondering the question as he sat alone in the corridor, dragging on his cigarette.
Although he was just an ordinary citizen of the Federation, he liked to analyze social trends. He figured the root of this phenomenon had to be traced back to the very beginning.
Perhaps the first signs appeared back on the Moon, during the final days of the Noah Project at the lunar base.
Back then, everyone was working themselves to the bone, driven solely by an ideal, the dream of a sea of stars. When the international crews from the southern hemisphere first learned they were actually going into deep space, they had gone absolutely crazy with excitement.
Some of the high-level staff knew the truth about the impending apocalypse and were working desperately just to survive. But the vast majority of the engineers had no idea what was coming; they were bleeding themselves dry out of pure, idealistic passion!
