"I thought I asked you to sit down and buckle up?" Myitt asks with a sly smile. "Technically real space is still there, we've just entered an extradimensional pocket of space-time known as z-space. I really shouldn't tell you much about this, if you tell the world they'll either think you're crazy or you'll single-handedly crash the stock market.
"Think of it this way: Imagine a piece of paper. Your point of origin is one side of the paper, and your destination is on the opposite side. If the paper is miles and miles long, it'll take a long time to get from one end to the other. But if you could fold the paper into a cylinder, so that your origin and destination are almost touching, then the distance is almost nothing at all. That's what z-space allows us to do, it lets us jump that little gap through the curvature of space-time so travel that might take many hundreds of years in real space would only take us a few hours or days in z-space. Of course, that all depends on just how far you're going, how much z-space shifts, and there are limits--no one within known Yeerk or Andalite science has been able to transport themselves into different galaxies, for example. Even in z-space that would take thousands of years in this old hunk of junk. But the Space Bar makes time and space act very strangely, and seems to disregard universal entropy in some kind of buffered multidimensional bubble. It's all quite fascinating." She blinks at Cutter. "I didn't lose you there, did I?"
Myitt briefly calls everyone within her linked system. "Everyone's still with me, right? Travel time should be..." She pauses to check her nav computer. "...approximately three hours."
((We can skip a bit to get to Earth if everyone's on board, I just want to make sure everyone gets a chance to say what they want to say in the marshmallowy world of z-space
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