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Who are the Sooners? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

The first who die accidentally on New Earth.

Those selected to be first residents of the restored planet.

Officially sanctioned "seeders" of plant and animal life.

Persons making illegal visits to New Earth's terraformed surface.

When U.S. President Julia Bliss Flaherty describes the proposed Cloud Ark Swarm as a "distributed architecture," what does she mean? (from Section 1, Chapters 1—3)

Widely separated sections, in order to decentralize and protect the Human Genetic Archive from incoming lunar debris.

The Cloud Ark's orbit will be modeled with random number generators.

The construction is to be distributed among a global collective.

The Cloud Ark is designed to mimic a beehive.

Why is Crater Lake, Oregon, with views of blue water, snowy mountains and pines, selected for international dignitaries' end-times announcement to the media? (from Section 2, Chapters 4—6)

The gorgeous vista symbolizes nature triumphing over cosmic catastrophe.

Because the park is far removed from populated areas.

The media demanded it.

The dignitaries want a decadent eating-and-drinking experience in the famous lodge.

Why are the Red faction (descendants of those who broke away from the Cloud Ark) so solicitous of the Diggers? (from Section 5, Chapter 13—Epilogue)

They wish to reap the rewards and accolades for making first contact.

The Diggers have iron reserves much needed in habitat-ring construction.

To make up for destruction—via ocean floor strip-mining—wrought upon the Pingers (Old Earth undersea survivors, descended from nuclear submarine commander Cal Blankenship).

Because all Reds are descendants of Rufus MacQuarie.

Geneticist Moira Crewe is on the under-construction Cloud Ark with the Human Genetic Archive, from which the race can be sustained. Also, she stores digitized DNA on a thumb-drive, and this one day will be converted into biological reality. How? (from Section 3, Chapters 7—9)

By inserting the drive into a genetic synthesizer.

A DNA strand based on the data can be produced (after labor-intensive effort) with a few simple precursor chemicals.

By the invention of some far-future method after the Cloud Ark Swarm is established.

Through gene manipulation, using the thumb-drive's genome-mapper.