What is the fate of the human race? Expand into the solar system and possibly the Milky Way Galaxy, or succumb on a dying hot planet? Fight endless religious wars, or look for God in new places? Struggle for scraps of food on an overpopulated planet, or create enough food and space for everyone? Die in a pandemic, or control disease and aging with genetic breakthroughs? Succumb to environmental chemical poisons, or clean up the Earth? Be burdened by more and more layers of bureaucracy, or escape to an unregulated environment? What is the best way to prevent a wealthy few from claiming all the Earth’s resources for themselves? Use a modicum of those resources to build a company to harvest the vast treasures of the solar system and share with everyone. Untold riches await any company with the vision to see how to use the planet’s resources to bootstrap its way into the solar system. How can technological stagnation and decline of civilization, loss of diversity, and the final formation of a singular, ossified, authoritarian government with one homogeneous culture that dominates the entire planet be prevented? By finding a new, empty frontier in which to expand and developing the technologies necessary to survive in it. Shay Guli is bored with and bewildered by her sudden wealth. She is tired of prejudices against immigrants and females. She chafes under increasing bureaucracy and society’s nonsensical rules. She needs a new perspective. Why not do what several other billionaires have done? Visit the International Space Station. Her trip to low Earth orbit energizes her. She uses her immense wealth to claim the ISS as salvage when NASA decides to abandon it. Utilizing the ISS as a construction shack, she sets about accidentally creating a giant corporation, which colonizes much of the inner solar system, providing a new frontier for future generations. Then she disappears.