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"Mayhem, the man of many bodies, had been given some weird / assignments in his time, but saving The Glory of the Galaxy / wasn't difficult -- it was downright impossible!"
The SOS crackled and hummed through subspace at a speed which left laggard light far behind. Since subspace distances do not coincide with normal space distances, the SOS was first picked up by a Fomalhautian freighter bound for Capella although it had been issued from a point in normal space midway between the orbit of Mercury and the sun's corona in the solar system.