I, Hobo. Times of Death

...They are born in genetic sequencers, at fifteen years old. None of them have ever been to Earth. By the Emperor's order, they pull the Route into Deep Space – Distance after Distance, decaparsec after decaparsec, from star to star,... from one green world to another... They have no choice: the price of the Solar Visa is twenty-five years on the Route. The discount is only for the dead. ...The deceased is named Mark Bino. He is a cosmonaut like a cosmonaut. He honestly fulfills his duties. A loyal companion and colleague. Time heals the memory even of one's own death, and work makes one believe that they are alive... After all, the Cosmos is vast! – everything is possible, what can you do, that's how it turned out... There is much work, Earth is far away. What does Earth mean to a cosmonaut? And what does a cosmonaut mean to Earth? ...Earth shouldn't have killed Mark Bino's comrades – he loved them. And Earth shouldn't have killed him again – the first time was enough for him.