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He stripped the insulation from the red and gold wires. The timer ticked down.

Manual jumps were a death sentence for most pilots. It required calculating vectors in your head while traveling at sub-light speeds. One decimal point off, and you’d materialize inside a moon. dasd-824

Only static answered. It wasn't the clean hiss of an empty channel; it was a jagged, tearing sound, like metal grinding against bone. He stripped the insulation from the red and gold wires