Jack of Harts

Our Post War Gateway Run was considerable shorter than that available to us before The War. We gained access to the multiple-star system of Capella for instance. And what scientists still called 1 Geminorum. Those systems gave us some of the fastest hyperspace routes that were available to us at the time. They reached farther, faster, and better, shrinking the number of stars we had to cross to a mere seven. And the more direct route shaved nearly one hundred lightyears off our entire transit. The same War era American starship that could only maintain fifteen hundred times the speed of light could maintain over two thousand lights on those routes, and make the transit in eighty days. Or one hundred, or even one hundred fifty if hyperspace was particularly uncooperative. Even that was a significant improvement on our travel times to The Taurus Gate. And we did improve our hyperdrives in the meantime. Modern ships are far faster than old War Era starships, which makes the galaxy a much smaller place today than it was when the Shang brought The War upon us all. All of that is thanks to The Gateway Run and the knowledge that traversed it.