Gren Pannor had his BS Metallurgical Engineering; he had three job offers: one from the small firm only twenty minutes from home where he'd interned. It was a known place; they'd offered him less, thinking he might not want to relocate. The second was up in a Boston suburb and the third was out in El Segundo in Southern California. He didn't know how any of the three would work for him. A much less conventional option might be to see if House Blackmon, the group exploring extraterrestrial planets had any interest in his skills. This job might get him out to Mars or even farther! Could he do something like that? The idea of scouting out on an unexplored planet called to him. Could he learn to do that?