Timeline for How would I pull off FTL travel in a universe where inter-universal travel is also widely used?
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| Apr 3 at 19:02 | comment | added | davolfman | See also Elite Dangerous with Frame Shift Drive that can go superluminal in supercruise in system and is involved in Hyperspace/witchspace jumps as well. And I-War which had the LInear Displacement System for non-time-dilating near-lightspeed travel and a jumpoint-based drive for between-system traffic. Freespace also does something similar. It apparently a pretty common trope in games. | |
| Apr 3 at 16:17 | comment | added | WernerCD | I'd also say this can be used in a similar vein to explain why Gas engines and Diesel engines work - both have different strengths, weaknesses, fuel inputs, design limits, etc. Your idea is one is needed for the other (normal engine to get fast enough to use the scramjet)... my idea would be that the requirements and fuel needed are different enough that 2 engines are need - one that uses uranium and other uses unobtanium. both for fuel and for effects in the process. uranium doesn't create the warp effect - or interferes with it and vice versa. | |
| Apr 3 at 1:07 | history | edited | TheDemonLord | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added some other bits and pieces.
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| Apr 2 at 21:31 | vote | accept | viridianskyes | ||
| Apr 2 at 19:47 | history | answered | TheDemonLord | CC BY-SA 4.0 |