A: Acquisition
Gazing at the display made Adrian forget the child he had been worrying about and grab his tablet.
Weather systems occurred within every atmosphere that was exposed to an input of radiation, it transferred energy. The gravitational drive points were constructed by pouring energy into holes created by compressed mass, from a human's point of view.
But perhaps from a star's point of view, they were stirring an invisible atmosphere. Brendan had always spoken of the gravitational fields within the solar system as though they created winds or currents, but his words had never connected to Brennant's unconventional drive system.
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Adrian felt irritated when his ship's core system interrupted him a few days later, until he remembered why he had set his course to this Central station. His… daughter. Technically. But not legally.