Steve:

ALien ships do not travel through ordinary space bound by c. THey jump across the folds, through hyperspace, using probability drives far beyond our capability to understand. The drives work fine most of the time, and usually even 99.81 efficiency is enough to get them where they think they want to go. Every once in a while one will blow a gasket and slip below 98%, sometimes landing the pilot in a totally unexpected piece of space or time, or both, with untoward consequences. The last time this happened the poor bugger ended up being Madame BLavatsky. THe time before that, LEonardo. The time before that, the guy was stranded in a really backwards piece of continuum and ended up writing the new testament, at least the original sections.


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