“A mindship can travel in space and time. For most interstellar journeys, a pilot plots a shortcut through the unseen dimensions of space-time in order to travel swiftly between distant points in the visible dimensions. It is also possible to plot a course that makes use of a second dimension of time, but it is a rare and still-experimental practice which is only done far from the usual shipping routes as our scientists continue to assess and document the effects. “In short, we had the technology to send a pilot back to a time before the disaster.
