During the transit to Altair, Dana kept her eyes on the waving, foreign constellations visible at the end of the immeasurable tunnel. The NAV console and projection in front of her read 'ERROR' and with the exception of Hardway, Charon, and the breaching ship Tipperary at the center, the rest of the NAV projection was tinted red, expressing the OMNI-NAV's lack of confidence in any information displayed regarding a region roughly the size of the entire universe. Without a good starfix to locate itself, Hardway's navigational computer always got confused during FTL transit. Once Hardway rocketed through the veil of exotic particles skating across the mouth of the terminus and reentered normal space, the stars fixed themselves to the heavens again. "NAV console is coming back on line," Dana said. "We're at Altair, close to the third planet. We're fairly close to where they said we'd be." "Captain Elogin has a new navigator aboard Tipperary. He's a specialist in Noodie hypermass equations," Cozen said.
