Before long, the requested personnel had gathered in the captain's quarters. Jason started the meeting by distributing the preliminary report to those who hadn't yet read it.
Although the expressions in the room varied, the general reaction was surprisingly muted. Aside from a few of the older department heads, most people simply looked surprised for a moment before quickly returning to their baseline calmness.
This lack of excitement was somewhat unexpected, but Jason quickly realized why.
It made perfect sense. The average age of the population aboard the Noah was only twenty-eight. They were all in the prime of their lives. Even the oldest senior scientists were barely pushing sixty, still at the absolute peak of their careers.
In an environment where almost everyone is young, strong, and has decades of life ahead of them, the concept of mortality rarely crosses anyone's mind.
