A: Slow Advancement

Avery had lost whatever independence he had gained with his basic certification, and intermediate certifications, when he proved that he had already progressed far enough to begin his advanced medic training.

Partly that was because they had succeeded. Very few people came out of the season of solar flares and storms with long term damage. And partly that was because he chose to keep advancing his studies. 

Avery sometimes regretted that he hadn't chosen to remain 'free', and continued hopping from station to station doing repairs and collecting logs. But although he kept the knowledge of his family suppressed at the back of his memory library, he always remembered his goals.