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Detecting a ship that traveled in Quasi Space required technology associated with Tech Level 8 or higher. Intercepting it and forcing it to drop to real space was considered impossible ago and in terms of Union tech capabilities only possible for about two hundred years or so. None of the known space faring civilizations except the Union and the Nul were known to be able to do it. Normally it took an average civilization many thousand years of continuous development to make the necessary discoveries and inventions to step to the next Tech Level and the higher the Tech level the more time was needed. Most of the known M-0 space faring societies were between six or seven, a I had sat through a class on Tech Level development during the second year of the Academy and remembered it as we prepared to intercept and pull the Swift Profit from Quasi Space into real space. Union Tech was still far away from having weapons that could be used while in Quasi Space and figth and target another ship. Narth who as usually took part in my thought process said aloud, probably because he wanted the others to hear as well. “Once we receive the final components of the Spine core weapon we will have a weapon that could theoretically be used in Quasi Space to target and destroy another object also in Quasi Space. Our Science Officer has proposed a method of destroying a target in Quasi Space in a scientific paper just three month ago. So the Union is not so far away from achieving this next step in weapon development. ” Shea was busy preparing our equipment for the intercept said without looking away from her readouts. “It was just a hypothesis, but Circuit and I think we could customize the latest generation of Nul Froth Casters. Two Three had some exciting ideas...” -“”- -“”-