Saffire heard the deep quiet masculine tone and couldn't help the smile that curved his lips as more naughty thoughts flashed across his mind. It almost rung a laugh from him as he realized just how long it'd been since he'd been laid. Saf's mind was highly distractible.<span style="font-style: italic">Get your head in the game asshole or your going to end up cannon fodder for the partner your mentally licking.</span>Saf sighed as he began to pre-flight checks to distract his distracted mind. He always had this problem around other males. He just never let it show. He hid his wandering thoughts behind decorum and cold distanced thoughts. Not everyone appreciated his tastes and a lot of people thought they could beat it out of him. Fat chance with that, Saf was a scrapper and he knew how to fight. He'd beat the shit out of anyone who came at him for any reason.<br/><br/>Disgusted with his own thoughts at this point he flicked the channel back on as he heard request for confirmation and spoke into the open channel.<span style="color: #8080FF">"Confirmed,"</span>he said. The problem was that Iopia was at least half way across the galaxy and Saffire knew he couldn't travel through hyperspace. Unless he docked aboard a larger ship that could take him to Iopia or found a natural opening. Or a Wormhole, as it is more often called. Though really hard to detect it has a tell tale sign that his specially designed scanner can pick up on. Not to mention his psychic powers often sense them too. Something Saf would never admit to anyone.<br/><br/>Wormholes are tricky however, they capture a lot of disruptive energy that knock out all communication, computers and anything else electrical. Saf had often thought this due to the electromagnetic waves emanated by the wormhole. The same 'disturbance' the scanners and his mind sense. This trip was going to leave him with a migraine if he found a wormhole. The EM field did that to him. Any strong electromagnetic wave tended to mess with his psychic powers and make his head feel like a lead weight was being slammed into it. Wormholes were a distortion in the space time entanglement or fabric of reality that allowed almost instantaneous travel from one location in space to another. Extremely hard to control and pradict their exiting location, as they did tend to be a lot of wormholes hanging around space. Something Saf had discovered almost purely by accident years back when he'd been making his way off his home world in a fit of rage and humiliation after his more then public casting off. Tears stung his eyes as he remembered those particular brutal memory. Not to mention he still had the scars from their burning irons on his back. He shuddered and cast his mind away from that. Forcing himself to think instead of how he was going to get to another sector of space without another ship or a hyperspace portal.<br/><br/>Hyperspace was easy to control and a lot more stable then a wormhole. Where Hyperspace required a hyperspace drive and shielding to maintain the opening it was also more accurate and could be done to take a ship anywhere they wanted to go. However without the shielding opening the window to hyperspace would destroy the ship something Saf didn't want to experience. A wormhole only temporarily affected his navigation and communication. He could fly manually through the opening and in moments of intense concentration and quick maneuverability to avoid crashing into anything he'd be out on the other side of the wormhole opening. Over the years he'd been mapping them and he knew there was one not far from here that led close enough to Iopia that even without hyperspace he'd make it there in decent time.<br/><br/>Saf didn't bother to respond to his partners last comment, if the guy couldn't see that his fighter class was sub-light rated and not hyperspace worthy that was his problem not Saf's. Saf returned his attention to the charts letting his finger drop from the link switch on the com channel. He could already hear the whine of his partners engine and knew the guy would be leaving for Iopia soon. Saf scanned the space charts for a natural opening as the systems prepped for launch. The engines purred to life causing the ship to vibrate in a familiar pattern that made the smile on Saf's face brighten. How he loved the feel of the engine beneath him.<br/><br/>His eyes alight with excitement as a rush of adrenaline made his blood burn with raw fire he set the launch code into the console and leaned back in his seat to finish checking the outlying space around the planet. Sure enough he found the tell tale signs of a natural opening.  It was the opening he'd been looking for. He turned his gaze away from the chart to gaze at his partner one last time before he started into the launch tube for the fast launch into space. He laughed as he was shot through the tube and into the outer atmosphere without needing to activate his thrusters. He let the automatic stabilizers do the work as he navigated through the lane and out into the blackness of space. Banking to clear the launch lane he smiled as he began to line up flight pattern with the wormhole entrance.<br/><br/>With quick flicks he turned his controls from automatic to manual and let the roller coster ride through the wormhole begin. He laughed as he was swallowed up into darkness. Stars streaking past so fast they were a blur of colored lights.