Eagleeye wrote:My two cents say that Elizabeth will be assassinated, so that Roger and Rivka can show us the mettle they're made from ...
And Benjamin will die soon, but maybe not by assassination but from illness or old age. After all, he didn't get the prolong-therapies ... (by the way - why not? His student times on old earth were after the therapies got common knowledge, weren't they? Or was he already too old even for 1st generation Prolong?)
RFC's addressed that point. Benjamin's father could have got him prolong therapy, but given that it wasn't available on Grayson he felt that it would be both morally wrong and politically stupid to give his son a couple of centuries of life more than his subjects would enjoy (a policy that Benjamin himself wholeheartedly agrees with, btw). By the time the alliance with Manticore brought prolong to Grayson itself, Benjamin was far too old to receive it.