If You're Smart—

A scientist has built a working prototype of a device that can warp space-time and faces a predatory industrialist who seeks to seize control and profit from the invention. As bankruptcy looms and monopolistic interests threaten his laboratory, he and his small team scramble for funding, confront ethical choices about selling out, and try to protect and scale the technology. The narrative traces the pressure that commerce exerts on scientific work, the practical obstacles to turning discovery into application, and the moral tension between private gain and wider benefit when a breakthrough can reshape interplanetary relations.