Rui frowned. "Wormholes cheaper than seafare? That seems hard to imagine."
"Is it truly hard to imagine?" she raised an eyebrow. "The market price of negatron matter is falling with each day because of how many negative tons you are extracting from Gaia, yes?"
"Yes, but still… wormholes are unfathomably energy-demanding. You could power a thousand ships in continuous seafare with the energy it takes to maintain a single normal wormhole," Rui remarked with a conflicted tone. "However, I suppose there is a critical point where the surplus of negatron matter is so great that it could become easier to open a wormhole than to ship goods and services through the seafare."
