The oddball 143-word chapter -- Short Attention Span Theater, if you will.
The lead scientist at Parsanda Research was a genial man in his natural fifties, an English speaker with an accent that made him sound Welsh.
Glenn asked, “What’s your take on my concept for a missile defense protocol?”
“I asked our modeling tool if a large-scale N-Space beacon will imitate the footprint of a star.” The man shared an interpolation graphic. “It’s plausible.”
“Next question. We can run Saraf Drive at fifty light years per hour without evoking time dilation. Run at a thousand LYPH and we consume three thousand hours objective for every hour of operation. Has anyone been working on this?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
“What if I point at a possible solution, but can’t back it up with the math?”
The scientist grinned at him. “Amil Leyta was famous for that.”
Glenn smiled back. “I’ll send you an essay.”
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