The Keiper Belt is the outer solar-system region that Formidable and Echo must clear before engaging their sphere drives. Echo crosses it again on the return toward Earth.
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Also recorded as: Kuiper Belt
Drive safety
The departure restrictions help keep high-speed travel clear of the solar system's denser matter. Before the mission, sphere-drive tests remain below seventy percent of light speed partly because potential impacts could overwhelm the deflection lasers.[1][2][3]
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Sources
Simon Evans, The Flaxen Tyranny, first edition (2023). Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the source edition.