 However, the harvester is presumably being used by its creators, and destroying it might be tantamount to condemning that civilization to slow starvation and death.Even despite its misdeeds, the crew of the "Helix" cannot countenance that possibility, though they saw no inhabitants in the other, red-giant system.Since they cannot get to the system normally before the harvester strikes again, the crew votes to risk the "Helix" and its hundreds of thousands of stored inhabitants by making a very short Hawking drive jump.