Mirage's reply - or rather, lack of one - was nothing more than a brief, wordless burst of static.

Nope. Wasn't going to respond to that.

"Huh. Well then. Learned something new already," he laughed, expertly hiding the fact that it was completely forced.

"I didn't even know there was still an active space bridge network. I'd thought most had been shut down, cut off, or simply lost. We haven't been able to utilize such things in some time, so we've been traveling via other means."