Cover art of the first edition of Destination: Void
"Aboard the Earthling, they were a hand-picked lot, the 3006 survivors of the toughest weeding-out process the Project directors could devise for their Doppelganger charges. The final six had been the choicest of the choice-the unbilicus crew to monitor the ship untill it left the solar system, then tie off the few manual controls and turn the 200-year crossing to Tau Ceti over to that one lonely consciousness, and Organic Mental Core.
And while the 3006 lay dormant behind the hyb tanks water shields in the heart of the ship, their lives were to remain subject to the servor and sensors surgically linked to the Organic Mental Core."
Destination: Void, Frank Herbert
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