Here is my contribution to the law of Sci-fi writing
There is no law...
Why is there always a precedent in human nature to confine things and put them in boxes with labels. Scifi is nothing more than a backdrop to tell the story and if it becomes part of the story it can kill it. I've read amazing scifi stories that talk about tech used as a normal everyday thing and doesn't try to explain it, and I've read really boring scific stories that want to lecture me on the practical physics of FTL drives.
Its a dodgy EPS conduit stuck in a reverted space time continium caused by an inverted tachium field. If we reroute power through the pattern buffers and give it posimatrix charge we should set up a sionic wave to affect the graviton field that will push us out of this causality loop...
Or we could just use the thrusters...
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