Before you take this one on, make sure you’ve worked through Two Roads to One Product — you’ll need both the standard method and Strassen’s seven-product trick, cold, with the clock running.

Your ship just re-entered without its navigation core. The jump drive can still fold space — it just needs someone to do the matrix multiplication by hand, twice, before the field collapses. Standard method first. Then Strassen’s. Same coordinates, two different roads, and only one of them scales.