Earlier this week a secondary fleet officer, Seville, and I ran into a strange gunboat-class warship at Pecos. Its captain claimed to be a jump point researcher, or something ... Neither of us particularly believed this story, and a suspicious unknown foreign gunship wasn't something we wanted around our home, so we escorted him back to the Cortez jump anomaly. When we got there, the captain stated that he actually had to head to the Baffin star system because he needed to get resupplied from a nearby base in that direction. The three of us took him over there then waited around that jump hole for a short time in case he doubled back, and after that proceeded to Sabah to dock.
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
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