[hider=response]ME AND THE ELDRITCH ARE COOL, WE TALKED ABOUT IT, THEY SAID IF I KEEP WRITING THAT STORY THEY'LL COME BACK

The colony ship [i]was[/i] moving at barely-sub-light, but I certainly wasn't doing any math (though I'll have to, if I keep this up). The thematic significance of technology was the uncertainty (and horror) of advancement -- so a lot of theoretical things which may or may not happen at or above lightspeed were intentionally smudged. 

Other point -- and this one, like... okay I had very limited time and space, and I wasn't about to split the photon on a piece this short, but THIS ONE I should've been able to make clear. Leon [i]was supposed to intend[/i] all along to let Rupp have her kid back. If she'd done the job the way he expected, she'd be reunited with Taina (and also sadly screwed). When she went ahead and killed everybody, that freaked the other two crooks right the hell out, so much so that they talked Leon into killing Rupp instead.[/hider]