A white ball of energy dazzled, and a swirling singularity spread with gleaming blue arms and magenta blinks before the Beyond Light returned to conventional space, having traveled a massive distance of nearly half an astronomic unit in less than five seconds, a distance that would have taken light to close to three minutes of travel.
“Leap sequence complete and successful,” informed Nav. Officer Xi Liang. “We have arrived near the orbit of Hawking-616d. Continuing operational maneuvers.”
John left the gunnery room and returned to the cockpit, things about to get hot. LIBRA unsealed the windows, and before they could even say it, dark grey metal and dazzling red lights replaced any view from the vacuum of space.
“Oh, my fricking god… There’s that bastard!” Mike held his mechanical con
