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re you made it; if you didn't
receive a clear jump message it meant that you made the jump wrongly,
transmitted a "No Jump" message and flatlined the charm ignition
sequence and so you never made the jump in the first place and,
therefore, never transmitted a "No Jump" in the first place. Yeah, I
don't understand it either and I've flown charm drive ships for fifteen
years. The trick to FTL travel was getting to the right place first
time as "Clear to jump" signals had to be transmitted as soon as you
came off the wave. Silvermoon soon let us know that we had got
where we wanted to be by leaping from Akane's pool with a squeal.
"Right on the button! Am I beautiful or am I beautiful!"
I put Catherine The Great into a 50 kiloclick elliptical intercept of
the last calculated position of the mining colony we sought, angling the
ship to spiral up and out from the gravitational whirlpool we had
created by our arrival, flying along the distorted white lines of the
tortured gravity field, the turns and climbs and impulse-drive
acceleration seeming to push me back into my seat as the inertia
simulator fed my brain with the fantasy that I was experiencing G-
Stress. I admit to being one of the old-school of pilots; I found
flying a lot easier on hallucinations.
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