Navigator Tull has information about the Outer Rim's improvised extractor attempt. Targeting drift wrecked every run.
Dialog
Offer
You seek understanding of failure. Appropriate. The Voidborn do not approach problems as the conventional empires do. Your Federation drills with resonating metals. The Crimson forges weapons and calls them tools. The Solarians measure and theorize. All failed because they think in three dimensions. We do not. Our extractor tapped dimensional power — energy drawn from the spaces between spaces. No vibration. No heat. No physical stress on the drill assembly. Elegant. We descended into the deep core pocket and initiated extraction. For the first cycle, dimensional power flowed perfectly. The second cycle introduced fluctuations — 3% variance. Third cycle, 11% variance. Fourth cycle, the dimensional tap destabilized completely. The extractor failed because deep core pockets exist partially outside conventional spacetime. Our dimensional power couldn't maintain stable resonance with something that shifts between dimensional states. Even we cannot extract what refuses to remain in one reality. You should speak with the Outer Rim at Frontier Station. They improvise solutions conventional engineers dismiss. Perhaps crude methods succeed where sophistication fails.