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The cost kept climbing. The Earth behind them kept spinning.

A double helix. Surrounded by a circle.

But to send data across 4.2 light-years without a four-year delay, they’d used the quantum entanglement relay—a miracle of physics that cost more per second than most nations printed in a year. The relay was leased from the Conglomerate, a post-human cartel that didn't negotiate. They simply billed. 2.1 gdps