Astrogate (Term)

To navigate between stars.
Only simes can target a destination accurately through Jump Space using any of the hyperlight drives developed during the Interstellar era.  
Many other species have perfectly servicable astrogation in normal space, using sub-light drive systems, or any of the FTL drive systems they have developed, but commercially servicable is different from extreme accuracy and extreme reliability which can be accomplished by Sime Astrogators after the selyn powered, thus zlinnable, Beacons have
From: Easy as Hop, Skip and Jump. Welch speaking to Klairon. 'We all know that it's against regulations for you to astrogate for the very good reason that you're not in top form until you've had your transfer. We realize that a Sime can go berserk under too much stress, but there's a couple of weeks safety factor in the rule, and you're a QN-1. If anybody can take hardship, a QN-1can do it twice over. And it's only a ten day run to Port In Brim. Duck soup for an ordinary Sime, let alone a channel. And that's civilization. If here they have only one TN-1, there they have a dozen.'
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