The Fortress in Orion (2014)
“As much time as he’d spent in space, Pretorius never ceased to be awed by its vastness. Once Man had thought that finding ways around Einstein’s equations and reaching, then exceeding, light speeds would turn the rest of the galaxy into his backyard. But a galaxy that was one hundred thousand light-years across still took one hundred millennia to cross, even at light speeds. Wormholes, which seemed to exist outside of normal space, certainly helped, allowing ships to travel parsecs in mere minu...tes, but one took one’s wormholes where one found them, and no one entered one until it had been charted, because it was just as likely to dump you halfway across the galaxy as in that system six light-years away.
Literally thousands of technicians had been charting wormholes for centuries, but the job was nowhere near completion. For one thing, about a quarter of the technicians—Pretorius preferred to think of them as galactic explorers—never came back, and it was impossible to know the reason.MoreLess
Literally thousands of technicians had been charting wormholes for centuries, but the job was nowhere near completion. For one thing, about a quarter of the technicians—Pretorius preferred to think of them as galactic explorers—never came back, and it was impossible to know the reason.MoreLess
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