Thanks for the clarity re: USNE ship classification – I’m all for simplifying exposition. Intriguing reintroduction of Shwartz as well…

Extra points awarded for the great Volkoff-Lorentz technobabble.

i think this is a different Schwartz. I am leaving him in Jump Limbo for a while. JonB, when you revisit The Synod, I may wake him up.