Perhaps this was a model of something much larger on some distant world left behind by these people.
Then she quoted the price of passage to that distant world.
Someday others in far distant worlds may see that light and find their way home.
The center simply had no contacts in this distant world.
He hadn't really expected them to agree to be rocketed off toward some distant world.
What books would he never read that were still to be written on those different distant worlds?
"We mean to fly far from here, to a distant world."
How could they return the information to that distant world?
On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning.
Once the adjustment to this distant world is made, the power of the piece takes over.