Tomoe and the Far-Reaching Fate of Aridon

"It's third period, Tomoe. I'm sure you can focus for another hour."

"I've been up all night. I really need some sleep."

"Well then, do it after class." Mr. Hill was concerned about his student's lack of motivation in this subject. "You don't have to think about it until we start talking about the test on Thursday."

Tomoe sighed and turned his attention to the discussion that was going on. It was a debate on the ethics of time travel. For the most part, students were arguing against it because of the paradoxes that could be created by messing with past events. A few people had a different point of view. They argued that if you could learn from the past, why would you want to change it? The argument went back and forth for several minutes before Mr. Hill brought it to a close. "Alright, what else do we have?" He looked at his notes, trying to remember what he had left over from last week. "Oh! We haven't talked about space travel yet." The class went silent as everyone waited for a continuation of his thought. "So... who wants to talk about space travel?"

Tomoe raised his hand and said "A space ship travels at a speed where the time delay is minimal between when departure and arrival occurs."

"Right," said Mr. Hill. "What is that speed?"

No one spoke up after Tomoe's answer. "OK, so let's try a different way to approach this question." He took down the formula for calculating a hyperspace jump: distance x light speed / time = distance x light speed * time / light speed = distance x (light speed * time) / (light speed * light speed). Underneath that he wrote out how long it would take to get somewhere based on how far away it is: distance / light speed = distance / (light speed * light speed) = 1 / (light speed * light speed). You can see how those two formulas are related to each other. If you divide both sides by one, you can show how long it takes something to do something else based on its current position: 1 / (light speed * light speed) = distance / light speed + time = distance x (light speed * time) / (light speed * light speed) + time = distance x (time + time) / (time + time + time). This means that once something starts moving, they could get anywhere in less than no time at all! Of course, they would have to wait while they travel through hyperspace, but they could just fly back through normal space afterwards! What this all means is that no matter where someone starts out from in their galaxy or universe, they should never have to be more than a few weeks away from anywhere else in their population area!