Miss Miranda plotted a brisk course that brought them to Mancroft within seventeen days. She wanted to alternate between short and long hops in order to test and calibrate the brand new FTL drive.
"The core of the galaxy is familiar with this generation of FTL, but it's new technology to us. We need to establish a baseline so that we'll know how far we can push it. Corvette-class ships are especially known to have a generous threshold."
"And a threshold is?"
"How near we can transition into a star system. The threshold is mainly dependent on the relative mass between the ship and the destination's star."
"That sounds kind of dangerous." Ves apprehensively noted.
"Good thing we have a First Class Engineer, sir. Ushra has plenty of experience with pushing FTL drives to their very limits. Our former clients liked the thrill of jumping in deep."
Ves took her word for it. He hired them on exactly because he wanted more options in case they ran into any trouble.
