#PennedPossibilities 1080: "Do any unseen forces have power within your universe?"

WIP is a space opera, with interstellar transport mediated via wormholes. There is a wormhole generator, but while it's active it prevents similar devices from working throughout the visible universe. So it's infinitely valuable—it grants its owners a monopoly on FTL transport, which they profit from. And this secretive Authority guards its location jealously—because slower-than-light thieves are a threat ...