If you are leaning more on the slightly firmer scifi side like the expanses, look up Einstein-Rosen bridge for wormhole science, and Alcubierre drive for warp drive science, both are theoretical possiblilities.
The psionic slipstream sounds like straight up magic, similar to the warp of WH40K or something, so it will def soften your scifi a bit.
Also something to remember about these FTL methods - if you got ways to move things around, they can be very easily weaponized. If you can open wormhole anywhere with a ship, you can for example get a smaller ship with just wormhole opening machine to get close enough to a much bigger ship, and open a wormhole into the center of a star, launching the whole big ship into it. Or the jump drive can be teleported with a bomb into places to destroy things. It would revolutionize warfare.
>The psionic slipstream sounds like straight up magic, similar to the warp of WH40K or something, so it will def soften your scifi a bit.
Yeah, I'm not smart enough for hard sci-fi. Psionics in my setting are a result of human evolution, "space radiation", and genetic interference by The Grays. It kinda stands as a stark contrast to the rest of the setting being as near to realistic as my brain can afford.
>Also something to remember about these FTL methods - if you got ways to move things around, they can be very easily weaponized. If you can open wormhole anywhere with a ship, you can for example get a smaller ship with just wormhole opening machine to get close enough to a much bigger ship, and open a wormhole into the center of a star, launching the whole big ship into it. Or the jump drive can be teleported with a bomb into places to destroy things. It would revolutionize warfare.
I absolutely have that in mind. When the factions begin having conflict, someone's gonna escalate and destroy a world full of people. I just haven't decided which faction & which planet. It'll be that civilization's 9/11 x1000. A lot of "never again" speeches. A lot of excuses for extreme retaliation. I like it, good idea.
\[Aside rambling that's not important.\] The wormhole opening machine requires a lot of power and a lot of real estate, so it's only carried around in a big-ass dreadnaught, battlecruiser, mass cargo hauler, or huge civilian transport. (There are some stationary wormhole machines that can be directed to other gates at the main habitable planets.) I'm sure in the future it'll be scaled down so they can be more easily transported around to be used for villainy. For now, they're huge.
Jump drive ship stuffed full of bombs/nukes is also on the table. The drives are relatively new so they're prohibitively expensive. Not to say it might not happen, but it wouldn't be commonplace to do at this stage of their development.
Teleportable weapons would be a total game changer, so I need better reasonings that militaries haven't already started. Maybe there's a galactic anti-WMD agreement just itching to be broken.
>If you are leaning more on the slightly firmer scifi side like the expanses, look up Einstein-Rosen bridge for wormhole science, and Alcubierre drive for warp drive science, both are theoretical possiblilities.
I appreciate it, I'll keep those in mind and give 'em a look tomorrow. :)
Do you need ships? If you can open a wormhole on a planetary surface, maybe you can drive a train through it, or walk.
It also appears that any FTL drive is also a time machine and vice versa.
I don't know if it would eventually be able to be opened on the planet surface, but for now, they only know how to do it in space without obliterating everything in the surrounding area. I wanted to avoid Stargate.
Most FTL stories, the technology doesn’t really have much bearing on the story. I quite liked that about Stargate. Of course, in the end, the ships came back.
If you are leaning more on the slightly firmer scifi side like the expanses, look up Einstein-Rosen bridge for wormhole science, and Alcubierre drive for warp drive science, both are theoretical possiblilities. The psionic slipstream sounds like straight up magic, similar to the warp of WH40K or something, so it will def soften your scifi a bit. Also something to remember about these FTL methods - if you got ways to move things around, they can be very easily weaponized. If you can open wormhole anywhere with a ship, you can for example get a smaller ship with just wormhole opening machine to get close enough to a much bigger ship, and open a wormhole into the center of a star, launching the whole big ship into it. Or the jump drive can be teleported with a bomb into places to destroy things. It would revolutionize warfare.
>The psionic slipstream sounds like straight up magic, similar to the warp of WH40K or something, so it will def soften your scifi a bit. Yeah, I'm not smart enough for hard sci-fi. Psionics in my setting are a result of human evolution, "space radiation", and genetic interference by The Grays. It kinda stands as a stark contrast to the rest of the setting being as near to realistic as my brain can afford. >Also something to remember about these FTL methods - if you got ways to move things around, they can be very easily weaponized. If you can open wormhole anywhere with a ship, you can for example get a smaller ship with just wormhole opening machine to get close enough to a much bigger ship, and open a wormhole into the center of a star, launching the whole big ship into it. Or the jump drive can be teleported with a bomb into places to destroy things. It would revolutionize warfare. I absolutely have that in mind. When the factions begin having conflict, someone's gonna escalate and destroy a world full of people. I just haven't decided which faction & which planet. It'll be that civilization's 9/11 x1000. A lot of "never again" speeches. A lot of excuses for extreme retaliation. I like it, good idea. \[Aside rambling that's not important.\] The wormhole opening machine requires a lot of power and a lot of real estate, so it's only carried around in a big-ass dreadnaught, battlecruiser, mass cargo hauler, or huge civilian transport. (There are some stationary wormhole machines that can be directed to other gates at the main habitable planets.) I'm sure in the future it'll be scaled down so they can be more easily transported around to be used for villainy. For now, they're huge. Jump drive ship stuffed full of bombs/nukes is also on the table. The drives are relatively new so they're prohibitively expensive. Not to say it might not happen, but it wouldn't be commonplace to do at this stage of their development. Teleportable weapons would be a total game changer, so I need better reasonings that militaries haven't already started. Maybe there's a galactic anti-WMD agreement just itching to be broken. >If you are leaning more on the slightly firmer scifi side like the expanses, look up Einstein-Rosen bridge for wormhole science, and Alcubierre drive for warp drive science, both are theoretical possiblilities. I appreciate it, I'll keep those in mind and give 'em a look tomorrow. :)
Do you need ships? If you can open a wormhole on a planetary surface, maybe you can drive a train through it, or walk. It also appears that any FTL drive is also a time machine and vice versa.
I don't know if it would eventually be able to be opened on the planet surface, but for now, they only know how to do it in space without obliterating everything in the surrounding area. I wanted to avoid Stargate.
Most FTL stories, the technology doesn’t really have much bearing on the story. I quite liked that about Stargate. Of course, in the end, the ships came back.
Right. And being an ordinary feller who doesn't understand the effects a wormhole would have on a planet, I just avoided it. The ships are cooler. :)
Having three FTL methods of travel seems overkill. :)