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| | The LONG SHOT |
 | | The Long Shot was the result of centuries of development by the Firm of General Products, a company wholly owned by the Piersons Puppeteer species, who wanted to develop a hyper drive that would go faster than the then standard 1.1 lightyear a day which was the maximum that the Outsider hyper drive produced. |
 | | Yet by all other accounts, the prototype was a huge failure: It filled the largest hull that the Puppeteers General Products company made to the brim, leaving barely enough space for a life support system wich would house one man, and four fusion drives, needed to lift the huge ship out of a gravity well. |
 | | No one knew why they had left, except for Beowulf: 30,000 light years to the Core was quite a distance, and quite some time for the radiation of the nova front of the Core Explosion to reach Known Space, but when it did it would wipe out all life in its path. |
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