I sympathize with Elma, but I understand Nicole. And I'm a sucker for a good mystery/sabotage/spy plot, especially in space. And you know it's good when all of the characters and the reader all have the same information and are coming to the same conclusions, without any of the annoying "let's withhold this information from these people for no other reason than to create some conflict." I also got the impression this book wasn't necessarily planned, and was impressed by the weaving together of the known events from The Fated Sky.