Embedding a table in an e-book

There was exactly one illustration in Rome's Revolution. It was a table of numbers that OMCOM generated to demonstrate to the humans that the Stareaters were coming and would arrive at Earth within three years.

Now this might not seem like a difficult thing to put in a manuscript so that it renders properly on an Kindle or iPad. But I found it impossible. I tried using a Courier-style font, hard-coded the spaces but that still didn't render right. I tried using a table in Word but that didn't produce the proper results.

I finally threw in the towel and decided to render the table as an image and embed it in the book. Here is the image:

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You may not like the way it looks but it got the job done.

A few items of note. This was after OMCOM, and to a lesser degree the Overmind, realized that Rei Beirak actually had insights to offer into the phenomenon which was threatening to collide with the Earth. So OMCOM not only put up the figures in the Vuduri language but also English. I cannot show you the actual Vuduri alphabet because I have never seen it so the words shown are transliterations of their pronunciation in English.

The second thing to note was Rei's contribution of identifying Alnilam, its distance and when the star disappeared according to Silas Hiram's journal. The table also includes the date that Capella dimmed but did not disappear.

The bottom line is that OMCOM calculated that Sol, and by extension Earth, had at most three years before the threat hit and would most likely wipe out the Earth.