title: JellyFilled: Micro-Observations
author: Loren Hecht
description: Loren Hecht is a writer, singer, performer &amp; educator.
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  # Day One
  
  "Your personnel have settled in, Major?" al-Ibrahimi said. He was looking in
  Farrell's direction, but his eyes were focused on the holographic display
  before him. Because the interference patterns were aligned toward the
  manager's side of the desk, Farrell saw only an occasional shimmer like
  cobwebs drifting through a sunbeam.
  
  "We've spent our share of time on troopships, sir," Farrell said. "This is
  better than the usual. I'm not used to traveling without flight crew, but it
  seems to be working well enough."
  
  The ship trembled every few minutes as it sequenced between bubble universes,
  navigating by means of the differentials between constants of velocity and
  momentum from one continuum to the next. To those aboard 10-1442 the sensation
  was similar to thunder so distant that it was felt, not heard.
  
  "Statistically," al-Ibrahimi said, still watching his display, "fully
  automated operat