I vote we just have no conflict with Rend and just have him a casualty of the cryo-freeze. I mean we are going to have to go back into the tanks since we are still 4 years travel to the closest destination. We can just have him assessing his situation and waiting in the background to see the turn of events and start working on exploitations until there is a good character exit.

I think that everybody would be trying to let by-gones be by-gones since we are going to need every resource regardless of how problematic it might seem. I mean right now even a felon might seem useful to us right now. I think simply killing him would change the spirit of the story significantly.