Chapter 2 – The Brief History
The screens clear and a video begins playing in the center display. I see myself on the monitor. “Hello James, this may come as a complete shock to you, but you are no longer in the solar system. You just made the first successful Hyper Shunt Transfer of a human being. In fact, if my, um your calculations are correct, you should be somewhere near or in the Alpha Centauri System. Please be sure to do a full scan of the region and archive it before you leave. It would mean so much to everyone back here.” OK, HSDU, Hyper Shunt Drive Unit. That makes sense. By how did I get to Alpha Centauri? That is over four light years away. That must be one heck of a drive unit. “The Hyper Shunt Project is a faster than light (FTL) drive that forces a wormhole shunt between two locations in space. The initial small scale test using a fixed generator and just pushing the test probes through, while successful in the near instantaneous displacement of the subject, resulted in total computer syst
