I had avoided the audiobooks for a long time because I didn't want my headcanon in terms of voice and Ragi pronunciation to be disturbed, but with the news of CJC's retirement and the possible/likely unfinished state of the series, I decided to plunge in finally...

...and right in Part 1 of the first book, I realize that we had been clued in as to what is going on so *very* early, in the repeated incomprehension of the original Phoenix crew and passengers that it was actually physically impossible to emerge from hyperspace intact and at the wrong place, but they had done so anyway, and in the way the whole thing was presented as a computer glitch...