"But still, I'm assuming that wormholes don't just spontaneously appear and disappear, even here -- and I know I wasn't near something even capable of a jump."

It's difficult to make any real guesses about this without a more thorough understanding of the physics involved, but information is information, and the one thing that Wash is sure of is that the Cetagandans probably know more than they're letting on about it.

He sighs, with another slight frown. This is all a lot to take in, and his mind is still reeling a little from the idea of this being a different -- timeline, somehow. He can chew on that later, but right now he just needs more concrete information, anything practical.

"There anything I should know about this place or this Cetagandan Empire?"