“Let’s see if I can dumb this down for you, Ethan!” Brill said wryly.
“I would appreciate that. Dumbed down is good for me,”
Lucy chewed on her lip. The urgency of the situation was not lost on her. She counted off a time interval, “10 minutes until Runner1 impact,”
“A phase-leap is the ability to phase a ship into sub-space or a dementional bubble, essentially squeezing the ship between two demential planes. The implications of a device like this are enormous,”
“I’d say. With something like that, we could sneak past Republic defence nets and blast them out of the universe,” Frosty said.
“Sure. But such a thing can also rip a hole in space-time…” she shrugged,”Theoretically.”
“Ok so. Theoretically, how could we have gotten caught in a rip? in space time?”
“There, you got it,”
Frosbeld shook his head; it was starting to hurt.
Brill admitted, “Frankly, I don’t know!”
“Commander, Runner1!” Lucy pointed at the viewscreen.
The shuttle was turning around.
“It’s going back to the Karama!” Frosty said.