Chapter 2 Summary

Foyle awakens on the Sargasso Asteroid, a colony comprised of wrecked vessels. The offspring of the original research scientists marooned in the asteroid belt 200 years before are now known as the Scientific People. They are considered savages by Inner and Outer Planets alike. Joseph, the leader of the Scientific People, welcomes Foyle and has him tattooed as Nomad because he survived. Survival is the first rule of Darwin and they consider him to be most scientific. They give him a wife named Moira.

Foyle is out of it for a few days, but when he comes to himself, he shoves Moira away from him and escapes the asteroid aboard a stolen ship once a part of the asteroid. An Inner Planets vessel rescues him 90,000 miles from Mars. He wakes in a hospital where an orderly gives him a mirror and he can see...