Hail Mary. I didn’t want to raise false hopes, and I wanted to ensure we continued planning for a frontal assault. Anyway, about ten days ago, GL 877 went nova. There is nothing left in that system now, right out to the Oort cloud. Confirmed by the monitor drones, just before they expired.” Neil and I looked at each other in shock. “We can do that? Dude!” Neil said. I stared at Bill. “Someday, some species is going to observe that explosion and wonder what the hell is wrong with their stellar models.”
