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Laserlight said, in reply to me:
> Correspondingly, you'd think it would make you
> VERY close with your comrades on ship.

Why?  You're all frozen.  You're only bonding if you're doing things
together.

[Tomb replies]:
You are going to be sharing adversity (and casualties) far from home,
you know the home you go back to (if you ever get there) is going to be
very different due to time dilation (family dead/gone or older, etc),
and the only people on exactly the same timeline as you (in terms of
knowing events on the homeworld, having the same sports heroes, etc) are
the guys n gals who are in deep sleep with you. 

The bonding won't happen _while_ you are asleep, but when you are up
because of the dislocation and dissociation even from former peers
who've been unfrozen while you've been a Troopsicle(TM).