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The Ferren refusal. He led the faction that wanted the beacon silenced, and he leads those who will not leave: we will not be refugees under the power that killed our sun. Not a mystic and not scenery — a political leader making a defensible choice.
The refusal. Per upstream: "Led the faction that wanted the beacon silenced; now leads those who will not leave: 'We will not be refugees under the power that killed our sun.'" Some who stay, stay for his reasons, others for their own. In Book 2 he hands Rook the ledger of the 293 — "someone in Earth's uniform must carry this, or it is lost."