Seeing this, Tom's heart sank even further.
It's important to note that the distance between their galaxy and the galaxy where this group of Star Beasts resided was a full 4 light-years.
A distance of 4 light-years covered in only about 4 months meant that this group of Star Beasts possessed superluminal travel speeds of approximately 12 times the speed of light!
This was twice the speed of Tom's current superluminal travel, which was less than 4 times the speed of light.
Furthermore, calculating by the mass of the current star, Tom would need to be about 1 light-year away to reduce the influence of the star's Universal Force Field to an acceptable range before entering superluminal travel status.
