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Now comes an important choice. This newfound discovery is going to require a radically new approach to Hyperspace exploration and FTL travel. You already once had pilots to assist your ships in the power up and power down sequences of FTL, and to ensure they didn't fall back into “real space” on the inside of a planet. But now you have a new class of navigator, and soon your ships, communication, and command centers will need them. There is no way to know if this ability is somehow genetic, or tied to intelligence, or if it is merely a property of the blind.
More of these “navigators” are needed, for experiment and advancement- as well as for your expanding empire. But you can hardly consider forcibly blinding a bunch of young talented Jaxtians for some spooky space program to be a good outcome. There is also the question of the Threemind system- and with your new Baalathi computer core it is coming closer and closer to being reality- could the Threemind be a “presence” in Hyperspace, the same way the Seekers have theirs? But would that mean giving up command of a vessel to a thinking machine of the same level of intellect and self-determinism as a machine-mind, not a slavish AI core? It's not an easy thing to pick.
In any case, the Hegemony will need a source for these blind navigators; Kimnan II cannot do it himself. Now it is time to build a foundation for those with this power of "Starsight". What is your choice, Supreme One?
>Recruit willing volunteers to be blinded and trained to be able to "See" in Hyperspace
>Create a new genetic caste of blind-from-birth indigos specifically raised for Starsight
>Do nothing and hope the Threemind computer can handle it in the future
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