All is Fair Ch. 03

Taken together, these three systems have allowed humanity - not to mention every other species - to explore and colonize stars that are an unimaginable distance away from the cradle of our race, and without them, we would still be reduced to using sublight engines only and relying on cryostasis for any journey beyond the asteroid belt of the Sol System.

It is wise to note that in the latter half of the twentieth century, the Voyager space probe was launched. It took more than fifty years to leave the Sol System. Any ship traveling toward Alpha Centauri now passes by it within a few minutes of entering hyperspace, and most pilots barely give it a passing glance. But it is not expected to reach that system for another seven hundred years, despite having been launched more than five hundred years ago.