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Standard disclaimer goes here about rambling, wandering off on tangents, and spoilers ahoy! You hath been warned.
I thought of a faster then light travel system for the humans and I'm actually a bit proud of myself to have two travel types that work in-verse which are substantially different from one another. Okay, technically there are 3 but the wormhole gate and the Hylin slipspace drive work on the same basic principle - getting yourself and your ship transformed into raw information and zoomed through space via an information sub-dimension.
I envision the in-verse structure such that what we consider normal space sits on top with a layer of dark matter/dark energy separating it from the slipspace net "underneath" which forms the underlayer for that universe. I would say all the universes intersect in a manner corresponding to them being planes within a giant sphere but that wouldn't be accurate. In fact, it's hard to vizualize the intersecting dimensions. The flow of information is limited within normal space to the speed of light (unless using a method that warps the dimensions of space itself) which makes it necessary to leave these confines to move information at a faster rate. It's the same impetus behind Hyperspace but I'm trying to shy away from conventional sci-fi hyperspace models.
Anyway, the human's main form of FTL travel within a star system is a Line Driver. Essentially it's a dark energy pulse established between two stationary points (that is, their movement keeps them in the same frame of reference to each other as the points are machines). The space in between the two points is then depressed with a gravity superstring. Think of it like taking a piece of paper, holding two sides, and pressing gently into the center. The two points can be brought closer together temporarily. The craft travels using the pulse to prevent it from being dragged into the superstring.
There is a serious danger with this technology. Since space itself is being warped there is a real danger that objects can collide. The Line Driver can thus only be activated in open and empty space. It takes more energy to compensate for the gravity of a large body anyway so the Driver, even at the maximum energy output it has been designed for, fails to build the superstring to begin with. I think that's a reasonable safety measure although it doesn't prevent smaller objects - like asteroids - from falling into the well.
I thought of a faster then light travel system for the humans and I'm actually a bit proud of myself to have two travel types that work in-verse which are substantially different from one another. Okay, technically there are 3 but the wormhole gate and the Hylin slipspace drive work on the same basic principle - getting yourself and your ship transformed into raw information and zoomed through space via an information sub-dimension.
I envision the in-verse structure such that what we consider normal space sits on top with a layer of dark matter/dark energy separating it from the slipspace net "underneath" which forms the underlayer for that universe. I would say all the universes intersect in a manner corresponding to them being planes within a giant sphere but that wouldn't be accurate. In fact, it's hard to vizualize the intersecting dimensions. The flow of information is limited within normal space to the speed of light (unless using a method that warps the dimensions of space itself) which makes it necessary to leave these confines to move information at a faster rate. It's the same impetus behind Hyperspace but I'm trying to shy away from conventional sci-fi hyperspace models.
Anyway, the human's main form of FTL travel within a star system is a Line Driver. Essentially it's a dark energy pulse established between two stationary points (that is, their movement keeps them in the same frame of reference to each other as the points are machines). The space in between the two points is then depressed with a gravity superstring. Think of it like taking a piece of paper, holding two sides, and pressing gently into the center. The two points can be brought closer together temporarily. The craft travels using the pulse to prevent it from being dragged into the superstring.
There is a serious danger with this technology. Since space itself is being warped there is a real danger that objects can collide. The Line Driver can thus only be activated in open and empty space. It takes more energy to compensate for the gravity of a large body anyway so the Driver, even at the maximum energy output it has been designed for, fails to build the superstring to begin with. I think that's a reasonable safety measure although it doesn't prevent smaller objects - like asteroids - from falling into the well.
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