Ellen wondered if she should regret telling her mother and brothers about the whole Exodious deal. She wondered if it was right to tell them a week prior to launch. Her brothers had been cool about it but her mother ... well, it broke her heart that her only daughter was leaving in a week on a voyage with risks that no one knew. It was more riskier than having a job as a criminologist, where the biggest risk was firing a gun by mistake. Ellen thought it would be better if her mother resented her as she left rather than leaving on a good note and having her mother worry as 20 years went by. There was no stopping it.<br/><br/>Ellen arrived at the big party just in time for an upbeat song to come on and cheers from a dancing crowd fill the dome. She noticed that most that were dancing were the college-aged. The older people sat either at the tables or the bar. The event was weird at all. It would be a good night to unleash the inner beast from within before being put in cryo and sent into the stars for 20 years. If things went bad, all the people could say that they had their last party with a bang. Ellen wasn't so sure for those drinking the night away at the bar. In 20 years or so, whenever they woke up from cryo, they would have the world's first 20 year hangover. Ellen couldn't help but laugh at that thought.<br/><br/>She went to a higher level where they were couches out and about. Taking a seat on one of the couches, she lifted her head to see outside the dome. The sky was clear from dust clouds and showed the expanse of stars in the heavens. Ellen wondered what it would be like up there, on a new world, a new Earth maybe.