I feel stupid," she said. "I really thought we were a scientific mission. Aren't we? She pointed one thumb toward the monitor. "That's not science. '… - James S. A. Corey

But before they could go anywhere, they needed a place to go and a plan that was more fleshed out than Don’t die.

When we get out," she said. "Not if. When. We're going to need a plan. If every ship just bolts off on its own, we'll lose contact. They shouldn't know where we went, but we should. At the very least, we should have a record of who went where. This every-man-for-himself-and-God-against-all shit's romantic, but we have to plan for something past just this.

Humans are structureless. They live in conflict with themselves and each other. Their great genius is rationalization: lying into mirrors until they bully and seduce themselves into things they would never otherwise do. They are creatures of self-delusion, regret, and desire.