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Faster Then Light (FTL) Travel is a given in my novel and is the sole reason that humanity still has any prayer of survival. I don't know any true specifics about how the stuff works. The humans use a semi-stable wormhole as a gravity well that, through the use of gates on either side, can be ridden along (but not inside of) to shortcut between two points in space. Humans first explored the wormhole with probes. After four decades of collecting data that way and building a research station on a nearby moon building the actual gate began. The gate itself is composed of a dozen machines attached to a much larger gate station. If you didn't know what you were looking at you'd think it was just a big probe or something. The gate station houses a huge computer and a fusion plant to recharge the gate builders.
When the station receives a command to open the gate it deploys the builders that then construct the field the ship will use to enter the wormhole's space warp. The size of the gate is dynamically constructed based on the size and mass of the craft wishing to enter the wormhole. Upon approaching the other end the ship's computer must send a signal to alert the receiving station.
(That makes me wonder what sorts of bad things could happen to a craft that failed to alert the receiving end. Would the ship get sucked into the wormhole's gravity well? Would it disintegrate from the force of trying to form in "normal" space?)
Another form of FTL travel, suitable for relatively short distance trips, is the use of slipspace. First off, slipspace assumes a multiversal structure to the universe. That is, there are multiple expanding universes expanding parallel to one another. With the right technology it is possible to slip into the expansion of another universe and effectively "ride the wave." The term comes from riding between realities.
EDIT: When saying that the multiple universes are parallel I was incorrect. I meant to say that they are intersecting, yet distinctly separate. Yes, it's very weird. I keep forgetting to remind myself that space is not necessarily a flat plane. (Although reading about black holes and the holographic principle seems to suggest, at least from a mathematical perspective, the universe might be flat as it were.) This whole thing comes from the notion of branes although I can't get into any detail with that as I know @$!&-all about physics.
The problem with FTL travel in this setting is that as one exceeds the speed of light one's form is converted directly to information. To one moving at such speed thought, perception, even biological processes cease. The Hylin have state-shifting technology that can slightly slow the beings in a field enough that they regain consciousness. However it is limited to the very beginning of the journey as one begins accelerating and the very end as one deccelerates towards the speed of light. To the traveler it seems as if they had teleported from one point in space to another.
Humans cannot generate sufficient energy for a slipspace jump in their ships and require assistance in the form of waygates that generate a wormhole that exists for the fraction of a second needed to break through conventional space. The Hylin, having mastered the use of micro black holes to store and generate massive amounts of energy, can initiate slipspace jumps without needing external assistance. Both races must still know where they're going before initiating the jump or they could end up somewhere ... unpleasant.
Faster Then Light (FTL) Travel is a given in my novel and is the sole reason that humanity still has any prayer of survival. I don't know any true specifics about how the stuff works. The humans use a semi-stable wormhole as a gravity well that, through the use of gates on either side, can be ridden along (but not inside of) to shortcut between two points in space. Humans first explored the wormhole with probes. After four decades of collecting data that way and building a research station on a nearby moon building the actual gate began. The gate itself is composed of a dozen machines attached to a much larger gate station. If you didn't know what you were looking at you'd think it was just a big probe or something. The gate station houses a huge computer and a fusion plant to recharge the gate builders.
When the station receives a command to open the gate it deploys the builders that then construct the field the ship will use to enter the wormhole's space warp. The size of the gate is dynamically constructed based on the size and mass of the craft wishing to enter the wormhole. Upon approaching the other end the ship's computer must send a signal to alert the receiving station.
(That makes me wonder what sorts of bad things could happen to a craft that failed to alert the receiving end. Would the ship get sucked into the wormhole's gravity well? Would it disintegrate from the force of trying to form in "normal" space?)
Another form of FTL travel, suitable for relatively short distance trips, is the use of slipspace. First off, slipspace assumes a multiversal structure to the universe. That is, there are multiple expanding universes expanding parallel to one another. With the right technology it is possible to slip into the expansion of another universe and effectively "ride the wave." The term comes from riding between realities.
EDIT: When saying that the multiple universes are parallel I was incorrect. I meant to say that they are intersecting, yet distinctly separate. Yes, it's very weird. I keep forgetting to remind myself that space is not necessarily a flat plane. (Although reading about black holes and the holographic principle seems to suggest, at least from a mathematical perspective, the universe might be flat as it were.) This whole thing comes from the notion of branes although I can't get into any detail with that as I know @$!&-all about physics.
The problem with FTL travel in this setting is that as one exceeds the speed of light one's form is converted directly to information. To one moving at such speed thought, perception, even biological processes cease. The Hylin have state-shifting technology that can slightly slow the beings in a field enough that they regain consciousness. However it is limited to the very beginning of the journey as one begins accelerating and the very end as one deccelerates towards the speed of light. To the traveler it seems as if they had teleported from one point in space to another.
Humans cannot generate sufficient energy for a slipspace jump in their ships and require assistance in the form of waygates that generate a wormhole that exists for the fraction of a second needed to break through conventional space. The Hylin, having mastered the use of micro black holes to store and generate massive amounts of energy, can initiate slipspace jumps without needing external assistance. Both races must still know where they're going before initiating the jump or they could end up somewhere ... unpleasant.
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On a side note, I'm going through your MIJET run on Langrisser 2 and it's awesome. It's kept me hooked for a LONG time. :) It makes me want to do another run-through, though this time I want to use the stage select code as I want to beat on the "unbeatable" enemies.
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As for my story, yeah it's a pretty desolate universe.