This is definitely how engines work /nod.
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Sol: And the sheer speed of it all!
Sol: Up until to then I thought I knew what “going fast” meant.
Sol: The Solace of The Swift return had been a fast ship. Or at least I thought it had.
Sol: But The Stars Beyond!
Sol: My engines had engines which had engines that had their own little engines that also had engines.
Sol: Even my crew were better than the usual bunch of organics I got stuck with.
Sol: Like, they were all cool, but not in an obnoxious way. And they were just as into everything we were doing as I was.
Sol: And… and we all kind of gelled. In a way I hadn’t ever felt before.
Tachelock: It all sounds amazing.
Sol: It was. It really was.
Tachelock: So… what went wrong?