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“This system controls the hyperdrive. It will not operate unless you program a course in it that corresponds with an existing star map. If you try to override it, you could find yourself on a collision course with a star, asteroid, planet, or moon. There is a large amount of distance between space objects, but it is still possible to collide with one of them if you are not careful,” Kella said.
Ash nodded. The physics of the universe were the same, no matter which part of it you were in. He was discovering that this section of it, wherever in the hell that was in the vast universe of star systems, learned how to traverse the vastness of space by using a combination of those laws of physics and technology. The technology of the gateway was incorporated into each spaceship, though on a
