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Commander Fritase arrived at Ziptowtheon in record time. The Shooting Star 38 was the fastest ship in the Yandan space fleet. It was also an experimental ship in its last stages of development. The Lead Trifect intentionally forgot to tell Fritase his trip would be the Shooting Star’s first long-range voyage.
This new ship was the brainchild of Yandan physicists who figured out how to move a warship through space faster than the speed of light. They did this by folding over the absence of light two, three, or even four times. The 38 was then pulled through space at a rate far beyond the rate achieved by using only one band of disappearing light. The speed of this new ship was remarkable and the fact it arrived at its destination in one piece was astounding. And, so far, the test pilot
