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Traveling faster than light looks pretty dubious IRL, but we still like to hope and boy does it make our sci-fi fun. So what's your favorite FTL method? Whether it's from any form of fiction or a speculative one like the Alcubierre drive. Casting a very wide net, have some fun.
It tends to shift but right now I'm a massive simp for Battletech's system because it focuses so much on limitations over meaningless technobabble.
Gives you a really good sense of what is and isn't possible and how that affects the way people deal with it.
I don't need to know how you bent string theory into knots I want to see what your drive means for your characters and factions.
I also quite enjoy the wormhole nexus from Orions Arm Project. They're massive gates that need to be transported through real space but but provide HUGE amounts of throughout of both ships and data.
The main limitation is that the whole thing is so fidgety and complex you need an AI to react to the spacetime weirdness so if that's not your vibe you're going to have issues.
Close third is slipstream from Andromeda (the most action - literally - driven FTL) which is fun cause it's actively piloted by an organic.
You gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get in this star's hole
Well, I just love the way Moya looks when she starbursts.
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It doesn't have to violate causality. It can be confusing to observers, but that doesn't mean it has to violate causality.