“Oh, yes, I’m aware of that. I mean, I certainly hope we still are! But it’s just… well, the whole of space, or at least, the whole of space reaching from the core planets to the rim has been devised into a coordinate system, using Bai Hu as approximately the origin and the meeting point of the axes. So no matter where you are in space, you’d just about be able to find your position relative to anywhere else in space. And I need to know where Persephone is on that coordinate system.” He sighed.
“They made us memorize these things, you know. The positions of the core planets, and I used to know them all by heart. I could just start from scratch and figure it out, because I know how far this planet it is from Bai Hu, if I could remember the function that’s necessary, but…” He trailed off. Mahir tended to ramble when he got flustered, and here he stopped himself. “I-- I’m sorry.”