User blog comment:Emilieanne.verhaegen/Eligius III in cryosleep?/@comment-27794543-20190524124439


 * The 24-year mission wasn't just travel time - it included time for mining. For all we know, with the engines working, travel time was just a year. Or it may have been 11.9 years with only a couple months for mining.
 * Cryo on Eligius IV may have been convenient for multiple reasons, e.g. resources like food & medicine are not depleted, no chance of anyone getting injured or ill, no ageing or muscle degeneration (which if trip was 10 years would be important - for mining, they wanted strong 20-40 year-olds, not people a decade older and weak from lack of exercise), much easier to control cryo prisoner population than an awake one, etc.
 * We don't know if cryo was used on Eligius III. It could have still been useful to save resources and to ensure none of your crew gets injured/ill during the journey. Since they couldn't easily replenish humans aboard the spaceship, especially ones with the needed scientific knowledge, keeping them in cryo is one way to ensure the human resource would arrive as expected to destination.
 * As far as Josephine's education, cryo or not wouldn't matter. Lets assume she was 20 when they arrived to Alpha. If cryo, then she was educated until age 20, then spent x years in cryo, woke up still aged 20 & went to work on Alpha. If no cryo, then she was still educated until age 20, though some of those years were aboard Eligius III, and at 20 went to work on Alpha. Cryo doesn't change her biological age or education.
 * Also remember that Becca was 18 when she started coding for Eligius. Raven was 18 for S1-4. This show is full of very smart young people. So Josephine being trained to catalog alien species doesn't seem so absurd.