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Over the next few days, the scientists swiftly begin drawing up a set of preliminary papers giving an overview of the magnificent breadth of the findings, as well as expressing the well-founded hope for more immense discoveries yet to be made. Marcel Temaru and Professor Li corner you in the bridge one morning to discuss it all.

"President, we really have to send these findings to Earth, pronto," says Marcel. "This is the discovery of a lifetime! The more people we have working on it, the better."

"Don't be so shortsighted!" Professor Li argues. "First we encrypt the datasets and then we release parts of it to the highest bidders, leaving the key parts for our own teams to keep working on. You weren't selected as leader to lead us into financial ruin, were you?"