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All the ship’s systems were managed by a military crew headed by Captain Benaip, a middle-aged officer, sullen and contemptuous of everyone and everything. He immediately established a rigid daily routine and restricted the civilian crew from traveling around the ship outside of their quarters and the corridors connecting them to the wardroom. No one resisted. The scientists divided themselves according to their interests and day after day held meetings and discussions on the narrow problems of their sciences. The young people, who initially joined the discussions with enthusiasm, became bored.

Tabit, the head of the whole research group, seeing the universal boredom in the eyes of his young colleagues, realized that something urgent had to be done. He remembered how in his youth, at the university of his native Kressum, he had participated in team intellectual games with a huge number of puzzles that had captivated all the students with their originality. Later, these games were held at all universities in the galactic arm.