 Joe and Jim have separate identities, but both are highly intelligent and have come to a crude understanding of the Ship's true nature.Having become convinced of the Ship's true purpose, Hugh persuades Joe-Jim to complete the mission of colonization since he noticed that there is a nearby star that Joe-Jim remembers is growing larger over the years.Intent on the mission, he returns to the lower levels of the Ship to convince others to help him but is arrested by his former boss, Bill Ertz, and sentenced to death.