Currently, ships had to use FTL to reach Lumar for aether harvesting—either that or pay for the more powerful, but more regulated, versions available from Aditil’s people. Both were enormously expensive, leading to situations like on the Dynamic, where only the old, stale spores were available to cargo ships. However, sublight speeds could reach the moons of the mining planet easily with this perpendicularity, perhaps within less than a year’s travel time. While Drominad wasn’t super close to either Scadrial or Roshar, it was situated somewhat between them, and that was relevant to the war as
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