The Rindhalu cruisers Sword of Darmok and Spear of Jalad performed a stealthy jump into the far reaches of the Tanagra star system, the unavoidable gamma rays of the spacetime rift mostly bent back inside the jump wormhole. The remaining high-energy photons of the gamma ray burst were caught by an absorption field, and channeled down into capacitors that seethed white-hot under the hull plating.
