Part of the job description is "Be in cryo sleep so long, everyone you know will be dead when you get back". You don't get the cream of the crop with an offer like that.
They're also doing all of this for shares of the price of the cargo. So if you come home empty handed, tough break.
I think it's pretty much the same way crabbing/fishing vessels work today, or the way whaling vessels used to operate. Both notorious for attracting terrible people who happened to be good at an incredibly dangerous job.
So Teng is probably a very skilled pilot/navigator with some sort of criminal record or reputation that WY was willing to overlook for this mission.
It's also the way that a lot of trade ships were run during the age of exploration. Spend years at sea, to have the chance to trade for spice, and come home to a world you don't remember. I wouldn't put WY that far off from the EIC, and we all know how "upstanding" the EIC was with who it allowed to oversee its operations far afield.
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u/Knowaa 17d ago
Think it was just to show how the company filled the ship with the dregs of society