Remi lifts a shoulder in an expressive shrug. "For local transportation, mainly. For interstellar travel, I'm given to understand that moth ships are so much better than invariant transport that there's really no comparison. And it wasn't any particular virtue on my part that I recognized the Cantata as a moth. I was already researching the mothlings and happened to have a lab full of instruments that told me one was nearby."

In response to Reshad's musing, Remi says dryly, "Yes, I don't imagine weaning the hexarchate from their starships is going to be easy. That's a lot of infrastructure."