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Another threefer!

Quaritch is out for his morning run (or maybe just coming back in, or just going out...you decide!).

Boba Fett is at the target range, getting in some practice with some target...and probably any demon bunnies that bother him. Moving targets are always better, you know?

And Bonzo Madrid is also doing a slightly more abbreviated morning run than Col. Quaritch, but he's also going through an exercise routine of his own.

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Beat.

"Hours? How is that even possible?"

"Cheating the laws of physics, telling them to shut up, sit down, and play dead." Jordan sighs. "If I could reproduce this Mass Effect."

"If." Beat. "If you figure it out, let me know. Until then..." Quaritch lets out something of an involuntary shrug. "I deal with what actually is, not random possibilities."

"Like normal wormholes?" She nods. "The problem with those is the flight to the warp point and to the destination from the arrival." She ponders that. "Anything past .3 cee and you're wasting energy."

"We've actually gotten ships up pretty close to "C" for the middle part of the trip to Alpha Centauri." Beat. "Why is anything past .3 wasting energy?"

"Because past 30% lightspeed the mass of the ship starts to go up exponentially, as does your energy consumption. " She nods. "I invented a jump drive that opens a wormhole between the gravitational wells of two stars."

If he's done with the lotioning, she'll sit again. "To travel to Alpha Centauri, I'd launch the ship, and fly with conventional drives to the mean AU point optimal for the jump. Right now it would take some five days of travel."

"Once at the egress point, I activate the jump drive, enter warp space, and arrive at the destination system in a matter of seconds. From the arrival point, I fly as fast as my conventional drives will allow to my destination."

"Which can take a few more hours or days."

"Mean AU point...?"

Yes, Quaritch is letting her sit up. He's just...a little lost in all of the terminology that's being tossed around, no matter how simplified it might be.

"There is a certain distance from the sun where you can use the warp drive. Its 4 to 5 times the distance from Earth to the Sun." Simple, right?

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