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Actually there was less than a quart of fuel in the _Starshine's_ tanks. Kim knew it ruefully well. It would run the little ship at interplanetary speed for perhaps six hours. On normal overdrive -- two hundred light-speeds -- it would send her just about one-seventh of a light-year, and star-systems averaged eight light-years apart in both the First and Second Galaxies.
Of course, on transmitter-drive -- the practically infinite speed the _Starshine_ alone in history had attained -- the ship might circumnavigate the cosmos on a quart of fuel. But merely rising from Terranova would consume one-third of it, and landing on any other planet would take another third.