When a group of flumphs decides that it's time to send young to another planet-either to warn its inhabitants of impending disaster or to escape local dangers, such as the destruction of habitable regions-the ritual known as the Seeding begins with polite but weighty debate, to ensure that all involved understand the sacrifices being made. Few seeds cast into the trackless void of space ever reach another world, let alone a habitable one, and to send one's own unborn children away to face the very real possibility of eternal, frozen stasis between the stars is at once a joy and a terrible burden for the parent group.