“One minute till we leave jump space,” Jess told the others. “Everything still seems normal. The Shadow Beam is still out there. I’m not seeing anything unusual in real space.”
The ability to scan normal space from jump space was another that was unique to the Wanderer as far as Jess and the others knew. Jess wondered what it must be like to fly blindly through jump space, and to drop out at the other end with no idea what you would find. It made him very glad to be flying on the Wanderer.
They were sat in the lounge, watching progress on a screen. Jess could control the ship just as well from there as the flight deck, and it was more comfortable for the others.
“Thirty seconds… twenty… fifteen… ten… five… four… three… two… one… now.”
Jess felt the Wanderer reach out with its jump
