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The new couple's honeymoon disrupted by the villain, who sets up a confrontation. The descent to the surface, the face-off and posturing.

Discussion of the implication of relativity to interstellar societies. To be truly spacefaring, a society must be able to keep promises made generations earlier. Their laws must be stable over thousands, even tens or hundreds of thousands of years. The lightspeed barrier is effectively a selector for very long time preferences.

The wedding and the flight to the space elevator, now largely abandoned. Our protagonist wants to refurbish it and get people out to space, to settling the whole Solar System like the future we were supposed to have.