"I'm back!"
The journey back to New Constantinople VIII did not last long at all. The superdrives of the warships of the Bluejay Fleet had shrunk transit times to such an enormous extent that travel became a lot more convenient in the new frontier.
Of course, only the major powers had access to this luxury. The phasewater and the advanced technologies required to develop and construct superdrives was beyond the capabilities of smaller groups.
Not even the Larkinson Clan possessed the technological background to produce them in-house!
It was not as if the Larkinsons wanted to address this shortcoming, but there was no justification to invest in a sector that was already being dominated by many established market leaders.
