The distance isn't so bad when your ship's packing a gravitic warp engine. It takes ya faster than the speed of light, so a trip that would have taken years can be made in a few days. Something like that really changes the landscape of these wars.

[Contemplatively, he took a sip of his sake and enjoyed it's warmth.]

...We probably would have ended up on opposite sides if we were in the same one, and I'd probably have been killed years ago because I just don't like watching things go down that I don't like. It really sticks in my craw, that's all.