"You’re really doing it?" Jora asked, wiping grease onto a rag. "The 0.1.0 Swap? It’s experimental, Kael. It’s barely out of the forge."
The ship groaned. The new engine pulsed once—a deep, violet light that made the deckplates vibrate in a way Kael had never felt. The screens flickered, then stabilized. "You’re really doing it
"The 0.0.9 is a tractor motor in a race circuit," Kael grunted, hauling a massive, chrome-sealed crate into the hangar. "If we want to make the jump to the Inner Rim before the blockade closes, we need the Gateway 0.1.0." It’s barely out of the forge
"Check the nav-com," Jora said, her voice rising in excitement. "The jump calculations... they’re instantaneous. The 0.1.0 isn't just pushing us through space, Kael. It’s folding the Gateway around us." "The 0