This is often accomplished by changing space itself - instead of moving faster than light, it reduces the distance that must be travelled.
note Of course, Worldbuilding means you can call it pretty much anything. The alternate dimension is often called "subspace" or "hyperspace", and the device that allows you to enter it is often called a "hyperdrive". Travel through this other dimension still takes time, allowing for the middle ground between instantaneous travel and impractically long journeys. This allows the ship to circumvent the limitations of physics by moving to a place where physics no longer applies, at least in a way that we know it. Hyperdrives: The ship leaves local space and enters Another Dimension where it can go faster.FTL drives tend to fall into these categories: This is incredibly useful in building the viewer's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, because even though FTL travel is theoretically impossible, as long as the story sticks to the conventions, the audience will know what to expect.įTL travel requires an "FTL drive", a device of some sort that holds the laws of physics in abeyance and, when activated, allows a ship to travel faster than light. But interestingly, faster than light travel has developed a set of wide-ranging conventions that writers repeatedly use, essentially allowing several broad categories of technology with their own capabilities and limitations. It can fall on just about any sci-fi setting - either a well thought out device that uses as much of modern science as possible, or something that Runs on Nonsensoleum but gets the characters from Point A to Point B. Writers resolve this problem by creating a system of some kind that allows for travel faster than the speed of light. There's a whole bunch of stuff about this on the analysis page, but trust us - it's not likely to happen. The problem is that as far as present-day science is concerned, going faster than - or even just as fast as - the speed of light is, for all human intents and purposes, impossible. Thus, in order for the protagonists to be able to plausibly visit a new Planet of Hats every week, they need to travel through space at speeds faster than that of light itself. Other planetary systems are so far away from us that it takes even the fastest thing in the universe - light itself - years, decades, or millenia to reach them. Nowadays, we know that the rest of our solar system is almost certainly devoid of other life forms - so we've got to go outside the system.Īnd that's where the "space is honking big" part comes in. This has been an issue for writers since The '50s or so before then you could get away with having your aliens come from Neptune without totally losing the audience. This event is called "MANTIS_CREW" in the datafiles.Faster-Than-Light Travel is a staple of Space Opera that allows an "out" to the unfortunate fact that space is honking big, making it impossible (within physics as we understand it now) to get anywhere remotely interesting within the average lifetime of a civilization. Once calm, the survivor offers to join your crew for a time. A man bursts out of the life-pod screaming and claws his way into a corner.
The Mantis inside considers you a messenger from the god of mercy and demands to join your crew.( Clone Bay) The Mantis is shocked to see the crewmember it just slaughtered step out of the Clone Bay.You lose 1 crew member and are attacked by 1 Mantis boarder.He cuts the closest person in half with a single swipe. You send the pod back out the airlock.You consider returning it to space when you learn it's Mantis. You detect and retrieve an escape pod floating nearby.
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