It worked. At first, the only thing we knew is that the drive coil package in the dropship behind us exploded in truly spectacular fashion. Skippy later realized part of the mass of the Maxolhx ship got converted to energy and fed back thru the wormhole during the picosecond it existed. The second thing we knew was the Dutchman had survived, again. If we ever went to the shipyard where our battered star carrier was built, I would buy beers for the construction crew. Except Thuranin probably didn’t drink beer. And the ship was probably built by robots. And the Thuranin would want to kill us.
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