Act II

Act 2 has the fence posts; All In, Venti Failure, and Soapbox revisited. At the beginning of Act 2 the PAM project comes across a giant astroid with ice covering it. They collect giant chunks of Ice and refill their water supply. However within the ice is a deadly virus that they call Virus-G. It wipes out half the crew and it almost destroys the PAM project. The ramaining crew, mostly those members in first class and second class, in cryosleep and put the cloning machine under the supervision of the clones. This is a huge turning point since the clones are not allowed outside the island. Millions of clones die as they try to find a cure to the deadly virus, eventually they realize the only way to survive is if they can develop a natural immunity to the disease. After 300 years finally the clones develop a natural immunity within their bodies and they are able to wake up the rest of the crew and pass on this immunity.

However because of this event the mood of the crew changes and they start to question the primary objective of finding another planet and creating a perfect society with the clones. A political leader uploads hitlers consciousness into the AI controlling the ship. The AI begins to negatively manipulate the clones into turning bad. There are a series of trials on the island and the clones attack and kill each other on the island. The status that the clones had gained from fixing the virus was now wiped away by the bloodshed on the island. People now feared the clones.

The last part of the second act is the Soapbox revisited story, the crew is split into two factions, one wants to continue on with the mission and find a new home planet, the other wants to create a colony within an astroid field and live on the island. There is a mutiny on the ship and at the heart of the mutiny are the clones who want to stop the experiments and live their own lives. Eventually the scientists are able to impute a safeguard into the system killing all the clones instantly. The ship PAM also locates a livable planet and they head in that direction.