1. What is the difference between an entrepreneur and an opportunist?

2. Can a businessman or businesswoman take advantage of an opportunity without exploiting resources or people in a negative way?

3. Do the people of Isis retain any of the prejudice shown by the first eighty colonists against people from outside their own group? What does this mean for Mike and Moira? Or David and Moira?

4. Are technological tools evil by their very nature? What about simpler tools? What about weapons?

5. What has Mike Flynn done that is criminal in intent? What has he done that has had criminal results?

6. Does it matter to you whether Mike Flynn intended to harm any of the settlers physically? Does physical injury matter more to you than the aggression shown by some settlers after Mike's arrival?

7. How is Moira's arrival on Isis and in the settlers' valley unlike her...