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Endnotes explained
This chapter contains endnotes providing definitions and clarifications for terms used in the book.
What happens
This chapter contains endnotes providing definitions and clarifications for terms used in the book.
Key passages
“Endnotes Detet—the distance at which one spaceship can detect another. — E. E. S.”
The term 'Detet' refers to the maximum range at which a spaceship can detect another spaceship.
Definition of a technical term used in the narrative.