Fighting Amongst Ourselves

It was mentioned after you dealt with starting up eos.

And the exiles make it clear why they left. You ask them they tell you. and it's more bad management and failure then just not liking tann. tann just made thing worse.

From what I just read on the last 2 pages makes the whole "uprising plot device" even worse.

It is still based on pure unchecked stupidity of astronomical proportions.

1) The leaders in MW screwed up BIG to let such people aboard
2) The leaders in MW screwed even more selling this whole stuff as "rainbow and sunshine with no problems"
3) The people who boarded the Nexus are even more stupid believing in 2)
4) And surely all the people aboard the Nexus are highly incompetent and stupid because they do not get it working for months

I wonder when "writers" finaly realize "stupidity" (no matter from where) is the worst plot device ever.

It would, but they would wait till things work smoothly.
I think, they could also tell us Nexus is beyond repair, there is just a skeleton crew trying their best, but everyone leaves. And there, while on a planet, they can split in two factions. And then when Ryder rides in and makes the Nexus work again, the loyalists ride back in.

^^

Well - there are some answers to that:

 1) The leaders in MW screwed up BIG to let such people aboard

You can do all kind of psychological test, but you never know how people react in an extreme hazard situation. It is safe to assume most of the colonists where stable enough at the time of recruiting. And there are also hints that long Cryosleep/Stasis causes light brain damage or changes. Enough to make stable people less stable if it's left untreated. Also - do not underestimate the power of "group think" or crowd hysteria. It can push perfectly normal people to extreme standpoints (look at this forum for example)

 2) The leaders in MW screwed even more selling this whole stuff as "rainbow and sunshine with no problems"

Nope - They have never done that. They have said it would be hard and difficult, but not impossible.

The point is that people where expecting colonization would be hard, but they would have at least a stable starting platform for support (Nexus). Then they wake up in a station in complete disarray, extreme limited resources, lots of damage, whole sectors in dark because there is not enough power, no way out to other planets because they are not habitable, no decent organization because all original leaders are dead, and the present leaders are completely unprepared.

In short - they expected (and where prepared for) a difficult task on the planets, but no complete disaster on their core home platform.

 3) The people who boarded the Nexus are even more stupid believing in 2)

You mean the Hyperion? They where not expecting "rainbow and sunshine with no problems", but they where expecting at least a somewhat functional core platform. They must have starting to get doubts when they saw that the Nexus was not finished, and the docking procedure was started by automatic systems. In fact Cora noticed that the station is unfinished and tells it to everyone. There is nothing wrong with having some hope it will turn out to be not that bad, but be prepared to adapt is it is worse than you hope for. And that is exactly what happens.

If you mean the personal on the Nexus.. Well I have explained that already. They knew it would be tough, but they where prepared to work hard to realize their targets. Not unlike the shuttle astronauts of our present decade. Those astronauts know things can go wrong (an they have gone wrong, because two shuttles where destroyed), but they still take the risk. So, why should it not be the same for the Nexus personal? People take risks for their ideals you know.

 4) And surely all the people aboard the Nexus are highly incompetent and stupid because they do not get it working for months

Come on. With extremely limited resources and power, a big part of the workforce gone because of the rebellions (that mostly where workforce people) leaving the Nexus and incompetent (or at least inexperienced) leadership? And on top of that no chance to get enough construction materials because you can't mine planets that are inhabitable with only an handful left-over workers (that are also needed to keep the Nexus running). They tried on Eos two times, but failed and where forced to put even more people back in Cryosleep/Stasis, because the resources where even lower after those failures (and thereby limiting their workforce even more). How do you think they would have be able to finish anything at all under those circumstances? Magic?

The way things happened does sound very plausible to me, but that's only my personal opinion of course.