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Stellaris FTL changes are in the warp pipes

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Paradox is packing everyone onto the space-highway, and reworking how FTL travel works in their galactic 4X game, Stellaris . While you can currently choose either Warp, Hyperdrive or Wormholes as your space empire's means of travel, Paradox have decided that having asymmetrical movement methods - while "an interesting idea on paper" - creates too many problems for features they'd like to implement. Once the Cherryh update hits, every player will start with Hyperdrive technology only. That means every player will (with a few exceptions) be limited to travelling via pre-determined space lanes, which constitutes a major change to the game's core systems. One of those X's does stand for (shudder) Xploration, after all.

Paradox sound like they have solid reasons behind making the changes. In their weekly dev diary post, they highlight how Warp and Wormhole travel allow players to easily circumvent static defences. Once everyone is limited to hyperdrive lanes, empires should have the ability to 'lock down' their borders by placing defensive systems at the natural choke points that those lanes create.

The new system also allows Paradox to introduce 'Galactic Terrain': "systems with environmental effects and hazards that have profound tactical and strategic effects on ships and empires." While they're keen to stress that they're only on the first iteration of the idea, some of the examples they give include black holes that increase emergency FTL drive spin-up time, pulsars that nullify shields and nebulas that block sensors from other systems. That last one will be a tasty way of setting up ambushes, or hiding the extent of your military power.

For people who still prefer the less limiting form of movement that Warp offers, Paradox are increasing the customisability of how those lanes are generated - so you can make a hyper-interconnected galaxy should you choose. The other forms of travel haven't vanished from the game entirely, however. The mid-game technology 'Psi Jump Drives' will remain in a tweaked form, which will let you make occasional Warp style jumps - but those might leave you stranded and vulnerable. You'll also come across natural wormholes, which might connect one side of the galaxy to another. In addition to those, I'm most excited by the introduction of Mass Effect style relays - each galaxy will start with an existing network of 'Gateways' built by ancient aliens, which can be used once you've researched the right mid-game technology.

On their next blog post, Paradox say, they'll talk about the planned rework of the "wargoal" system that's made possible by the FTL changes. There's no release date for the Cherryh update yet, so there's still time to get a few games in with the existing mechanics if you want to.

Stellaris Dev Diary #92: FTL Rework and Galactic Terrain

Unified distance, sensor and border systems that make sense for everyone (for example, cost of claiming a system not being based on euclidean distance but rather the actual distance for ships to travel there)
Galactic 'geography', systems that are strategically and tactically important due to location and 'terrain' (more on this below) rather than just resources
More possibilities for galaxy generation and exploration (for example, entire regions of space accessible only through a wormhole or a single guarded hyperlane, containing special locations and events to discover)
Better performance through caching and unified code (Wormhole FTL in particular is a massive resource hog in the late game)
Warfare with a distinct sense of 'theatres', advancing/retreating fronts and border skirmishes (more on this in future dev diaries)

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Wiz said: This means you pretty much have to invent a third type of interdiction type for Wormhole and roll it into the Click to expand...

endimielle1

Oh. My. God. I'm shocked. But... well... that's interesting. Thank you for doing a great job. Keep it on...

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Wiz said: But there's more: Add Wormholes as well, and you now have an FTL type where not only the 'bubble' type interdictor doesn't make intuitive sense (because Wormhole fleets make point-to-point jumps rather than traveling over the map) but if said interdictor works to pull Wormhole fleets out of position regardless of what makes intuitive sense, you end up with the same probem as with hyperlanes, where the fleet can get pulled out of range of its wormhole network and end up stranded even if it brings down the defenses. This means you pretty much have to invent a third type of interdiction type for Wormhole and roll it into the Click to expand...

Second Lieutenant

Excellent. Just what the game needs. Choice of FTL at the start was cool & all, but this really makes the game much richer and more interesting.

Magnificent Genius

Perennial also-ran.

Even better than I hoped!

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PAnZuRiEL said: Roll it into the what? Click to expand...

Princess Stabbity

Random nonsense generator.

The Guy with the Mascara

Am a little sad to see this, but can certainly appreciate how some simplification would help you improve other mechanics. Ideas you put forward there all look rather good. Shall play when you release and feedback with an informed opinion then.

I had pants on before I read this dev diary.

gulaschkoenig

Sounds great. Question: Will Ships be using the gateways automatically, i.e. i have 8 gateways, my main fleet lies in gateway-system1, reinforments and new ships built in the other 7 systems automatically use the gateway-system to join my fleet ?

gulaschkoenig said: Sounds great. Question: Will Ships be using the gateways automatically, i.e. i have 8 gateways, my main fleet lies in gateway-system1, reinforments and new ships built in the other 7 systems automatically use the gateway-system to join my fleet ? Click to expand...

So finaly the moving tactics can now begin.

Birnenpappe

I am very happy you made this bold step, Wiz and all the other devs. I was afraid I would need to wait for Stellaris 2 for that. You have my support.

This is the only change I really don't like so far. I have NEVER enjoyed hyperlanes because they always feel too restrictive.

Fallofthepurple

Fugitive miner.

Im gonna be honest, I dont remember the last time I did a non-'hyperlane only' run. Strategic locations, chokepoints and the fact that fortresses arent completely useless made the warfare side of things a lot more interesting to me. As such i am all for these changes but also glad that both warpdrive and stargates arent gone completely.

Is wormhole Stabilization intended to be an early or mid-game component?

Dutrius said: This is the only change I really don't like so far. I have NEVER enjoyed hyperlanes because they always feel too restrictive. Click to expand...

I'm not even remotely a fan of this choice, I hate hyperlanes. Here's hoping the mods come out ASAP.

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A new expansion is coming to sci-fi 4X and grand strategy Stellaris , just like clockwork, with the upcoming Overlord pack set to overhaul the relationships between ruling powers and their smaller, subject states. The goal of the expansion is to make consolidating other empires under your rule, but not direct control, a more interesting experience than in the base game.

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"There was a young woman named Bright Whose speed was much faster than light. She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night." — A. H. Reginald Buller

Faster-Than-Light Travel is a staple of Space Opera that allows an "out" to the unfortunate fact that space is honking big , making it impossible (within physics as we understand it now) to get anywhere remotely interesting within the average lifetime of a civilization. This has been an issue for writers since The '50s or so; before then you could get away with having your aliens come from Neptune without totally losing the audience. Nowadays, we know that the rest of our solar system is almost certainly devoid of other life forms — so we've got to go to other stars.

And that's where the "space is honking big" part comes in. Other planetary systems are so far away from us that it takes even the fastest thing in the universe — light itself — years, decades, or millennia to reach them note Even the closest system to our own, Proxima Centauri, is about 4 light-years away and would take about 6,300 years to reach with current space travel technology . Thus, in order for the protagonists to be able to plausibly visit a new Planet of Hats every week, they need to travel through space at speeds faster than that of light. The problem is that as far as present-day science is concerned, going faster than — or even just as fast as — the speed of light is, for all human intents and purposes, impossible.

There's a whole bunch of stuff about this on the analysis page . For even more information, see Rockets and Propulsion Methods .

Use of this trope is an absolute requirement for the employment of Casual Interstellar Travel .

No relation to FTL: Faster Than Light , although it does use the trope heavily.

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Cowboy Bebop had the portal variety called Gates, which were apparently dangerous because something called the "Gate Incident" made the moon explode . They created subspace of some fashion where things went faster and ships could get stuck in if they didn't leave in time. Like a lot of things in Bebop, it was never fully explained .
In Space☆Dandy , it is explained that the warp drive on Dandy's ship doesn't actually move the ship at all. Rather, it transfers the consciousness of whoever is inside the ship into their same body in an alternate universe, with the only difference in the entire universe being that the ship and the people inside happen to already be where they wanted to go.
In Outlaw Star , as a clever nod to science fiction's past, the "sub-ether" drive is powered by a "Munchausen reactor". This is a type of hyperdrive.
The original Super Dimension Fortress Macross (and its Robotech adaptation) uses the title spaceship's jump drive as a major plot point, and actually demonstrated that if you had an FTL drive and could safely use it within a star system, you probably would, because even interplanetary distances can be inconveniently large. The SDF-1 travels from Earth to Pluto's orbit in minutes, but needs two years to get back to Earth using a gravity-assist technique through normal space. The latter is quite plausible, as the outer Solar System is big . note For comparison, the real life probe New Horizons was launched off of Earth at extremely high speeds and used a gravity slingshot around Jupiter, and it still took nine and a half years to reach Pluto.
FTL travel in the series itself seems to be a combination of Jump and Hyperdrive types. Space folding is done by going into "superdimension space." Later series introduce "Fold Faults", which are obstacles in superdimensional space (implied to be warped space-time of some sort), and establishes that space folds have limited range: long distance (on the order of thousands of light years) folds eat up a lot of power, such that ships need to spend weeks recovering the resources to make such a jump again.
Macross Frontier reveals that all Fold technology in the series is derived from a space-faring species known as the Vajra, who are able to do it naturally, without the aid of technology. Their living Fold systems are still much more advanced than the ones in use by humanity and Zentraedi: fold faults don't seem to be as big a problem for them, and they can make extreme long-range jumps in a fraction of the time.
In Space Runaway Ideon , the Solo Ship and Buff Clan ships had the DS (Dimension Space) Drive as a way of performing faster-than-light travel. However, it functioned more in the likeness of wormhole travel (in which one uses or creates a tunnel through space-time that creates a normally physically impossible "portal" between two points in space) than hyperspace.
The Yamato in Space Battleship Yamato is outfitted with a Wave Motion Engine (also powers their Super-Cool Giant Laser Beam ) but abusing it could screw them over (meaning they can only use it for limited amounts of time in short intervals). Warping is a mind-blowing experience for the uninitiated, and may lead to either hallucinations or oddly specific existence failures (Yuki's clothing briefly disappears during the first warp; this never happens to any of the male characters; and of course it doesn't happen at all in the American version).
Starship Operators has a warp/jump drive. It operates like jump drive/wormhole, and normally cannot be used in area with high gravity.
Used by default by the eponymous mecha. It's ten million light years tall but moves and fights normally on a human timescale, so every part of it moves much, much faster than light every time it so much as budges. The method used is pure Hot-Blooded badass .
The Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren also has something akin to a hyperspace drive. Its guidance and power requirements are taken care of by the main character's flaming awesomeness (read: Hot-Blooded badass).
In the Tenchi Muyo! OVAverse when fighting Z, Tenchi travels from Earth to Saturn within a fraction of a second. This is justified in that he is the being that made the three Goddesses that made the universe .
The ∀ Gundam as well as its protypes like the Testbed Turn A are capable of instantaneous teleportation, generally over short distances around Earth to Moon. The FTL system could also be used to replace weapons and bringing in ammunition according to background material. The prequel Wind of the Moon manga reveals that the main city of the Moonrace is built on a gigantic ancient interstellar ship and they are trying to salvage usuable tech. Luckily for the Earthlings 99% of the ship has decayed but the 1% left has advnaced tech such as artificial gravity but most importently a transfer gate which is activated connecting to somewhere outside of the solar system which freaks out the Moonrace but worse an Eldritch Abomination which appears to be a gooey mass peaks out from the portal but the gate is finally closed and the entity remains a mystery
Gundam 00 first introduced FTL with the 00 Raiser which can teleport around extremely short distances but the function was not intentional and the teleportation was a total accident. The 00 Raiser's successor, the 00 Qan[T], was then designed to use this for full-scale faster than light travel and is fully capable of interstellar travel. The same system was installed in the ship Sumeragi and mass produced Sakibure MS. The alien ELS also have their own type of FTL
The Universal Century entirely rely on STL ships however as shown in Gundam NT newtype powers allow the law of physics to be bent to allow the Phenex to travel at or higher than the speed of light among other weird powers
There is a little known manga called Enhanced Human Tale: MAD WANG 1160 which is supposedly in the far future of the Universal Century in UC 1160 although its more of an Alternate Timeline . Mobile Suits have been replaced by mecha called Armed Material and nanomachines are everywhere. FTL is achieved by warp drives which can even be fitted to Armed Material and Humans have built a galactic civilization. However the old cycle repeats and its Earth vs Colonies again but this time on an interstellar scale. It is notable for introduction of concepts such as Nanomachines and FTL.
In Legend of the Galactic Heroes , faster-than-light travel is achieved via "warp drives", which actually function more like "jump" drives.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's , played straight in episode 145 after Yusei defeats Antinomy/Bruno they both end up being trapped within the black hole created earlier (which is itself impossible). After an emotional speech by Antinomy/Bruno , he proceeds to adjust his D-wheel and push it into Yusei's to gain enough escape velocity (also impossible once inside the event horizon) and/or open up a hyperdrive window. The title of the episode itself ("Faster than Light!") perhaps lampshaded this trope.
Lily C.A.T. still has the journey to their destination taking twenty years both ways, thus necessitating a Sleeper Starship .
Lyrical Nanoha has Dimension Space where ships, both civilian and military, go if people want to travel between planets. This place also where the TSAB Navy and Precia Testarossa's lair is located. There is also Precia's theory that the path to the legendary lost city of Al Hazard is located within Dimension Space.
Adam Strange : The Zeta Beam is primarily Adam Strange's method of FTL travel.
Super Goof, being a parody of Superman with powers to match, is occasionally shown flying through interstellar distances with ease. He just rarely bothers because he normally has no reason.
The Time Machine series once introduced a teleportation technology, essentially a version of the time machine that moves objects in space with a temporal variance of a fraction of a second in the future. A few alien races have it, and professor Marlin, inventor of the time machine, developed his own version... Only to mothball it because if the experiment failed in a way he couldn't understand then the world is even less capable of handling it .
Gyro has occasionally made FTL ships with such ease Donald would later take Casual Interstellar Travel for granted. A few, developed for Scrooge, used Dollarite and its improved version Super Dollarite, a fuel made from dollars on Scrooge's reasoning that "If money moves the world then a fuel made out of cash can move a rocket better than conventional fuel" ( it actually worked , much to Donald and the Triplets' shock).
Both Rebo and the Jovians have extremely advanced FTL technology, with the Jovians casually moving through the solar system and Rebo's ships being able to attack Jupiter from Saturn with ease. The ultimate example came when Rebo was hit by the Virtual Duck, Jupiter's ultimate jamming and perception-altering weapon, and not only he accidentally moved his flagship from near Jupiter to close to the Sun in seconds, the Virtual Duck even made him mistake the Sun for Earth and he didn't suspect anything was wrong until his ship started melting.
Most ships use some form of Alcubierre Drive , usually referred to as "warp", even to move inside solar systems, as space is indeed enormous (and Donald, used to Casual Interstellar Travel thanks to Gyro, was surprised when One pointed this out). Notably this doesn't mean they have FTL sensors or communications , and in fact most races have neither (only the Evronians and the En'to'mek have developed either with anything but very short range).
For larger distances there's a Portal Network , important enough all spacefaring races (including apparently dangerous races as the Evronians and the En'to'mek) respect them as neutral. Misuse or incompetence can result in extreme danger, to the point that when one of the few factions that don't respect their neutrality seized a portal node they accidentally connected the system to the Sol System and endangered both systems, resulting in the collective spacefaring races hiring Colonel Neopard to free it without any one of them taking control and breaking its neutrality for even a second.
The Evronians, being space nomads and extremely warlike, normally stay away from the network... And have developed the habit of building ships the size of a small moon to cross greater distances, even having turned the moon of their original homeworld in a spaceship , and doing the same to Earth in a Bad Future . They do it periodically, as whenever their numbers grow beyond their ability to prevent a civil war they create a new emperor, put him and half their population on the new planet, and send them away to make a new Evronian Empire somewhere else .
Xadhoom can cross interstellar distances through unknown means, explicitely much faster than with warp drives . It works only for her because she accidentally gave herself godlike powers and, being the best astrophysicist of a planet that highly prizes science, was intelligent and knowledgeable enough to figure out how.
Green Lantern : Kyle Rayner has traversed the entire universe in a span of a few months, as well as traveling back and forth between Oa and Earth multiple times. Other Lanterns -especially Hal Jordan- have done the same, but not nearly as much as Kyle has.
New Gods : The Boom Tube Gauntlet , that allows instantaneous travel to planets as far away as Apokolips and New Genesis .
Orbiter : In Warren Ellis ' comic, the shuttle's FTL drive is heavily implied to be Alcubierre Drive (the name's not stated, but the picture of the warp field and the name Alcubierre was mentioned, and the theoretical explanation fits Alcubierre drive, except that starting and stopping is far easier) .
Pouvoirpoint : The ship Entreprise-2061 makes use of FTL jumps several times during the journey from Earth to Alpha Centauri, producing each time psychedelic effects and giving space sickness to the main character.
Quasar : Quasar wears the Quantum Bands which were created by Eon for the Protector of the Universe. Eon would routinely bestow the bands on each new agent she chose to act as Protector. Among other things, they enable him to quantum jump or create small apertures between the fabric of space/time in the actual world of matter and energy and the potential world of matter and energy that is the quantum zone. He can then travel through this trackless featureless zone and emerge at a different point in our physical space. His quantum-bands enable him to keep his bearings while in the zone and thus emerge where he wants to. He can cross countless light years in a single jump, if he so desires. Important note, however, he cannot quantum-jump in an atmosphere without ripping a huge hole in its ozone layer. Thus using it for teleportation on Earth is out of the question.
Starblazer : The 1980s British science fiction comic had a wide variety of star drives in its stories, including warp drives and warp gates, traveling through hyperspace with hyperdrives, using natural wormholes, Worm Hole Drive (creating artificial wormholes) and Omega Drive (artificially created black holes).
An 80s Superboy story shows him making use of a wormhole early in his career to fly across space.
In another 80's story, "Blackstar" , Supergirl takes one day to make her way to Earth from the center of the universe.
Similarly, Kal-El's ship that brought him to Earth was equipped with a warp drive engine.
Tank Vixens : The "Credibilty Drive" relies on the crew being gullible enough to warp the universe . It's really just a dressed-up VCR that plays a video of hyperspace lines on the monitors followed by their destination. However, when a tape of Gone with the Wind is played by accident they end up Trapped in TV Land .
Wonder Woman (1942) : While Diana generally uses the teleportation device Paula invented the Saturnians explicity have ships capable of faster than light travel, as Diana and Steve Trevor steal one to get back home after being abducted.
Wonder Woman (1987) : Diana and Natasha end up lost very far from home after the modified New God tech Di was using to save Natasha from the space station is sabotaged and sends them flying out of the Milky Way into space, where they end up in Sangtee Empire territory.
In Thousand Shinji , the explicit lack thereof due to the C'tan's machinations closing off the Warp -an alternate dimension that was used to travel faster than light- and the consequences of this is what forced the Warhammer 40,000 gods to work together.
In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! , Kal-El's spaceship is equipped with a powerful warp drive that allowed it to arrive on Earth shortly after his birth. It is also the reason why it was able to land on Earth at all, as Alan Scott would have blasted it out of the sky otherwise.
In A Prize for Three Empires , the Starjammers and every alien empire use FTL drives to zip across the galaxy. Jean Grey and Carol Danvers as Phoenix and Binary, respectively, can zip across the cosmos under their own power.
A lot of characters in Hellsister Trilogy have the power to travel faster-than-light, which they use to move quickly through time, space and even other dimensions: Supergirl , her Evil Twin Satan Girl, her Kryptonian boyfriend, Superman , Power Girl , Superboy , Mon-El... She pushed herself off of nothingness, and speeded towards one of those moons, quickly passing light velocity several times over.
Origins : Everywhere. On an intergalactic scale, no less. Its use averts to some degree Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale. Galaxies really far apart? Here's a really, really, big engine! Turns out there are problems with it though—see Hyperspace Is a Scary Place and Temporal Paradox .
In A Force of Four , villain Badra and her Kryptonian allies use their faster-than-light flight to quickly fly between Earth and Mars over and again. Power Girl is the only hero who can equal their speed. In the reaches of outer space, a green-glowing globe floated, undisturbed for 31 years. The three beings inside it were numb, in suspended animation, as they had been for almost all of their imprisonment. A female figure appeared, lancing in from a point unknown, laying her hands on the globe, and propelling it before her in the direction of Earth's sun. She was black-haired, beautiful, and colder than the emptiness about her. She wore a strange green dress with red trim, had Roman-style sandals on her feet, and wore ornate jewelry on her neck, her wrists, and her earlobes. Her top speed was far in excess of light.
Averted in Friendship is Optimal . It takes a long time for Celest-A.I.'s probes to reach nearby star systems/galaxies in order to harvest their resources. As an immortal A.I. this doesn't bother her in the slightest, and she already has plenty enough resources to run Equestria adequately in the meantime.
Several characters in Kara of Rokyn . Hal Jordan 's Power Ring allows for interstellar travel between Rokyn and Earth without being bothered by Rokyn's spaceport's customs officers.
The Scrin from Tiberian Eclipse develop this as a workaround of Threshold Towers limitations. The late GDI/Unascended Brotherhood Of Nod Alliance/early ISDI reverse-engineered this.
In Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation , Superman's ability to travel faster than light lets him build a base near from Jupiter which he and he alone can reach easily.
In The Vampire of Steel , Supergirl uses her ability to fly faster than light to leap into another dimension in order to dispose of an Eldritch Abomination .
In Scepter of Darkness , the time-travellers have FTL ships.
Here There Be Monsters : Thanks to the Speed of Mercury, the Marvel Family can fly faster than light and reach Venus in under three hours. Earth had shrunken to a bluish dot behind them. There was only the star-dotted blackness, the sun blazing before them, and another world growing nearer by the second. Their speed exceeded that of light. Only their great power could move the mass their bodies had accumulated now. They did it without seeming effort.
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius : The kids apparently manage to travel 3 million light years in what amounts to about a day.
The whole plot of the anime short subject Voices of a Distant Star stems from the fact that the first United Nations space armada (where the protagonist serves) has faster-than-light drives but no means of faster-than-light communication. The dub very slightly implies that it's some kind of time dilation instead, because they failed to translate the newspapers, prominently displayed on the table, where headlines, basically, explain it all. (And, indeed, one newspaper's side-column contains the particularly mean-spirited revelation that FTL communication was actually invented shortly after the armada jumped out of range.)
The hyperdrive of course. Among the most typical around. It's also fairly fast; one could travel from one end of the galaxy to the end in about one week (although it's established you need sufficient fuel to do so).
This is weaponized in The Force Awakens . The super cannon can fire through hyperspace, removing the need to send a Death Star flying about the galaxy.
In the The Last Jedi , we find what happens when a ship going at warp speed is used to deliberately ram a target. The answer? Admiral Haldo takes out the First Order mothership in a single strike , which In-Universe is acknowledged as a "one in a million" shot.
Spaceballs spoofs the aforementioned Star Wars with the Ludicrous Speed drive, which instead of the star trail line effect, creates a plaid effect around the ship and is often seen to overshoot its destination. The speed indicator lights showed another speed, "Ridiculous Speed", nestled in between Light Speed and Ludicrous Speed. One is given to wonder what would have become of our heroes in the Winnebago had Dark Helmet opted to chase them at only Ridiculous Speed. The heroes themselves user Hyper Jets to go into "Hyper-Active."
Ernest Saves Christmas spoofs Star Wars 's hyperdrive — Santa's sleigh is capable of travel that's a direct homage to the first jump to hyperspace scene in A New Hope .
Event Horizon is about a spaceship whose main system of FTL apparently can't decide whether it wants to be a jump drive or a warp drive in terms of Techno Babble , but in practice, it turns out to be a hyperdrive that took its crew into a cosmic horror dimension that killed them all, and then came back... changed by the experience .
In Contact , the alien plans create a device that allows Jodie Foster to travel to their world via a self-generated wormhole. James Woods' character goes to great pains to try to disprove her claims of travel because on Earth her elapsed time was immeasurable , but the elapsed time on her recording device was several hours .
According to the Colonial Marines Manual, the Conestoga-class uses a Romberg-Rockwell Cygnus 5 tachyon shunt hyperdrive, which causes the ship to shift part of itself into tachyon particles and accelerate faster than light. The thing about this drive however is that using it causes the people and other lifeforms inside to age rapidly. Hence the need for stasis pods to avoid the rapid ageing.
Similarly, in the The Fifth Element we see a commercial starship that "jumps to lightspeed" in order to travel to another solar system, and like the Alien films, they put the passengers to sleep during the voyage. Also the mass of evil manages to travel from another solar system to Earth in just 2 hours . Mind that the heroes also manage to arrive to Earth from lightyears away just a little earlier... The sleeping-while-in-hyperspace thing is Hand Waved as being "for your comfort," so perhaps in the Fifth Element 'verse Hyperspace Is a Scary Place for the conscious mind? Though the crew, Ruby Rhod, and Cornelius seem unaffected. Or the company operating the spaceship was too cheap to include consumables for passengers for a flight of a few hours.
In The Neverending Story II , the evil empress Xayide and her minions go underground, while the narrator explains that they will be traveling at "at the Speed of Darkness, which is faster than light".
In Moscow — Cassiopeia , they manage to achieve this when the local troublemaker accidentally sits on the controls, traveling a 200+ year journey in less than a minute. The people on Earth have 27 years passing normally, except for being unable to contact the ship the entire time. It is suggested they entered some form of subspace, hyperspace , or “tachyon spiral”. However in real life physics, that's exactly what you get when you travel at a very relativistic but still subluminal speed.
The Lost in Space film has the Robinson family ship equipped with a hyperdrive. However, it's impossible to set a destination without using a set of gates that guide a ship at FTL. Their original plan is to travel the slow way to the planned colony and build a receiving gate there for subsequent ships to travel to via FTL. It doesn't work out for them.
It is the subject of Interstellar , where humanity ventures on a newly discovered wormhole.
A couple of other examples are shown: The Asgardians' Bifrost which seems to be some form of wormhole travel. Not much is said about it other than that it involves dark energy. Mar Vel developed a true FTL drive by researching the Tesseract. Carol Danvers, a.k.a Capt. Marvel, seems to have a similar ability after being infused with the stone's power and breaking free of the Kree blocks on her powers.
Andromeda uses slipstreams, a kind of portal drive, which requires a human pilot —well, an organic lifeform, anyway (a computer can only navigate slipstreams accurately if it has access to a one-of-a-kind perfect and complete map of all slipstreams, or the willingness to use less savory tactics ) and is described as "not the best way to travel faster than light, just the only way". The series is also notable for having a complete lack of reliable FTL radio , meaning all messages have to be delivered by couriers. Background material mentions attempts at using slipstream to send messages, but packet loss was ridiculously high, and the attempts were abandoned.
The show allowed ships to travel faster than light using hyperspace, envisioned here as an alternate dimension in which travel is much more rapid. Most ships use a network of stationary Jump Gates which had been positioned throughout the galaxy, as while it's possible to fit a jump drive to starships the technology has two inherent limitations, extremely high power consumption (to the point only the Minbari, the Yolu, and the Centauri have even bothered to develop miniaturized jump drives), and the use of Quantium-40 , an extremely rare material (never found in inhabited star systems, according to the Expanded Universe ). Since everywhere almost everyone wants to go has fixed Jump Gates anyway, and anywhere that gets lots of traffic can have on installed readily enough, in practice only larger military vessels, special purpose ships (such as couriers, explorers, and ships that have to install Gates), and a very small number of luxury ships have Jump Drives.
The First Ones, being far more ancient and technologically advanced than the Younger Races , have their own methods to enter hyperspace, almost invariably different from the vortex-generating jump drives used by the Younger Races. In fact only the Vorlon use the vortex... And not only are directly responsible for installing gates that the Younger Races would eventually discover and reverse-engineer, "The Lost Tales" reveals they have a superior method, quantumspace, that is much faster than hyperspace. The Interstellar Alliance has managed to install a quantum space drive on a simple ship, though at least this version is extremely disconcerting to the traveler. John Sheridan : ( to a reporter suffering her first visit to quantumspace ) Was that a new dress?
"Thirdspace" involves the discovery of an ancient gate to the formerly-unknown eponymous dimension, which initially looks like a faster version of hyperspace. Pity it happens to be inhabited by Eldritch Abominations bent on finding a way into our universe and destroying it. This one too was originally built by the Vorlon, who were barely able to close it and hide it away.
The Powers That Be tried to explain BSG 's jump drives as non-FTL technology. Something about the ships not actually traveling faster than their normal speeds, but shortening the distance between the two points. However, this pretty much defines most drives in this trope - in that they aren't really moving you beyond light speed, but just make it so that you effectively are, usually using a wormhole/hyperspace/gravitational warping effect.
The original 1978 Battlestar Galactica drive systems weren't FTL in the traditional warp style. In fact, they weren't really FTL at all. The writers simply didn't understand the difference between interplanetary and interstellar distances . Once, Adama ordered the Galactica to accelerate to the speed of light, but nowhere did they claim to exceed it... Not that accelerating a ship to the speed of light is any less impossible with physics as we know it.
Blake's 7 gave the Federation "Time distort" drives, which appear to be a kind of warped space drive. The Liberator and Scorpio both employed even more exotic propulsion systems whose principles were different and unknown. However, the show never really made a big deal of these mechanics.
In Defiance , the Votan Sleeper Starship arks lacked faster than light travel, but the Omec Harvester possesses a faster-than-light drive, allowing them to hunt down the Votan ark to Earth after their own sleeper ark was sabotaged and the race left to die in the dying solar system because the Omec weren't very nice . In the series finale, Nolan hijacked the Omec ship and throws it on a Blind Jump to avert the genocide of the still sleeping Omec. The drive shoots out blue plasma toruses as it accelerates at sublight until a faster-than-light drive is spooled up, which uses converging beams to shove increasingly longer wormholes at the ship .
The TARDISes are literally aeons ahead of any other ship type anywhere, ever . To put this in perspective, the Doctor's TARDIS was already a museum piece when he first acquired it hundreds of years ago, and it's still "the technology of the gods" compared to almost anyone else. After all, the Time Lords were "the oldest civilisation" who had "turned time travel into a game for children" before humans had discovered the wheel; they also developed effectively unlimited teleportation technology "when the universe was less than half its present size". It's been implied several times in the show (and outright stated by the expanded universe) that the reason the Doctor's TARDIS looks comparatively primitive, with its reliance on mechanical switches and levers and tendency towards steampunk clunkiness, is a combination of the Doctor's preferred "desktop theme" and because it just makes it easier to interact with.
It seems that there are other methods of faster than light travel in the universe. Hyperspace is mentioned occasionally, as is warp drive. The Slitheen used a more exotic slipstream engine.
The later seasons of Eureka reveal that Fargo and Zane have been working on an FTL drive after the arrival of the relativistic ship sent out by Henry decades ago. The principle is unknown, but it appears to require a "catcher's mitt" at the destination to avoid slamming at the target at lightspeed (same as Henry's ship). Later, the technology is enhanced to the point where the object being sent doesn't actually need to have a drive (Deputy Andy is accidentally sent to Titan). Despite this, GD builds a ship, the Astraeus , with the FTL drive to explore Titan. It's not clear if there is ever a plan to send a ship to another star, as the show ends before any large-scale construction takes place.
Farscape has all three; "Hetch Drive" is dirt cheap and available to everyone , "Starburst" is available to Leviathans such as Moya , but wormholes - which act as a metadimensional Portal Network - can only be utilized with the assistance of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens , which they don't give lightly for really good reasons .
In The Orville , Union vessels like the Orville are powered by quantum drive engines. For Troping purposes these seem to function as a "warp drive", i.e. travel is not instantaneous, the ship can stop or change direction at will, and the ship can still interact with the rest of the universe (sensors, communications, and so on) while in transit. This is appropriate, as the series is an homage to Star Trek , and so FTL travel here works much as it does in the Trek 'verse. The actual technology behind the drive is not explored in depth (beyond use of the word "quantum", anyway).
Varies in Power Rangers depending on the season. They use Jump travel when not using a ship ( Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers , Power Rangers Zeo , Power Rangers Turbo ), and Warp travel with a ship ( Power Rangers in Space , Power Rangers Lost Galaxy ). Occasionally they use slower than light craft and wormholes.
The novel goes into a bit more detail: namely, it comes about from the fact that the ship has been slowly accelerating for the past three million years.
Also in the second series finale Holly invented what he thought was a jump drive, but actually took them to an Alternate Universe .
Space: 1999 was entirely due to Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : The MOON gets blasted out of not only Earth orbit, but the Solar System due to a frickin' EXPLOSION (somehow without being blasted apart by it), and is left Traveling at the Speed of Plot , such that it hangs around in the vicinity of an interesting planet just long enough for the crew to fix whatever is wrong with it and fail to settle there, and STILL get to the next star system by next week's episode.
The gates themselves act as portals, generating wormholes between planets. Ships too large to fit through a gate usually travel through hyperspace. However Earth-made hyperdrives are the textbook examples of Tim Taylor Technology , note and Explosive Overclocking ... due to their use of highly unstable Naquadria .
Season 9 introduced supergates (really big stargate, needs a planet-mass black hole to power it) that were used to send ships from one galaxy to another quickly.
Stargate Atlantis had introduced the wormhole drive in the series finale. Apparently the Ancients have mounted an experimental drive system onto Atlantis that can generate a wormhole and cross interstellar distances in seconds . The downsides are that it uses insane amounts of energy and doing even a slight miscalculation will completely vaporize the ship. The follow-up novel Homecoming reveals that using the drive (not to mention the battle with the super-hive after) has resulted in heavy damage to the city's systems.
The starship Destiny from Stargate Universe seems to use a different method of travel that is slower/faster than normal hyperspace travel as the plot demands. The characters don't know much about it, so they just call it FTL.
While this explanation is backed up by supporting materials, no explanation this technical is ever given on-screen, though a ship propelled by a drive system which is described in very similar terms (in "New Ground") is emphatically not a warp drive.
It has also been explained in later series that older designs of warp drives are capable of damaging subspace at higher speeds. The Intrepid Class was one of the first ship classes designed to avoid causing this problem, along with subsequent ships, although it is implied that older ships were eventually refit to mitigate this.
One fun fact: in the pilot episode it was referred to as 'Time Warp' and 'breaking the time barrier', suggesting that the drive had some sort of time distorting effect rather than anything to do with subspace. This was dropped by the time they made the second pilot episode.
Interestingly, a conversation between the ship's navigator and one of the (illusory) survivors of a crashed ship in the first pilot suggests that the Enterprise is one of a few new ships that "broke the time barrier" but that older Drives involve time dilation. Obviously later Star Trek contradicted this by introducing Zephram Cochrane, the inventor of Warp Drive, a 21st century human.
The Federation itself was born thanks to warp drive. When Zefram Cochrane invented and tested humanity's first warp-capable ship, a ship of Vulcans detected it and decided to make First Contact.
The reason Omega Particles are deemed so dangerous that the Federation is willing to ignore the Prime Directive to prevent them from appearing is that an unstable exploding Omega Particle (Omega Particles almost never remain stable for longer than a nanosecond) will permanently damage subspace (which makes warp travel impossible) in a region the size of a Borg Fleet. If this happened enough times, warp travel would become impossible and galactic civilization would be ruined. What makes things worse is that people still try to create them anyway because even a single stable Omega Particle could provide unlimited power.
It's demonstrated in Star Trek Into Darkness that two ships flying alongside each other at warp speed can see and fire upon each other as though they were moving at sub-light speeds—debris and unfortunate crewmembers get left behind compared to the ships but are still traveling at FTL speeds—and a ship can be violently knocked out of warp if it strays too far off course, forcing it to instantly decelerate once it re-enters regular space even if its warp drive is still engaged.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , the planet Bajor is nearby the only known stable wormhole in the galaxy. It gives a portal between the Alpha Quadrant (where all the major players in the Trek universe live) and the Gamma Quadrant some 70+ thousand light-years away. Starships sometimes transit through this wormhole, though at relatively low velocities as can be seen from the apparent speed of ships entering and exiting the wormhole relative to nearby objects. There are various unstable wormholes, which shift endpoint from time to time, or may trap objects inside them. An early TNG episode featured a wormhole that was stable at one end but moved periodically at the other.
As they were stranded on the other side of the galaxy, Voyager sought various means of getting home faster than possible using its (already highly-efficient) warp drive, ranging from transwarp and quantum slipstream technology, to a graviton catapult which can catapult a vessel across space in the time it takes to say " catapult a vessel across space ."
In the episode "Course: Oblivion", the duplicate Voyager succeeds in creating an enhanced warp drive that is capable of bringing them to the Alpha Quadrant in two years. Unfortunately, because that Voyager and its crew were made of "silver blood" from the Demon-class planet they had left, warp core radiation is proven to be Toxic Phlebotinum for them, causing them to demolecularize and ruining their chances of ever reaching their destination (or even letting the real Voyager know about their amazing discovery).
Star Trek: Discovery introduces a unique method of instantaneous travel called the "displacement-activated spore hub drive", frequently just shortened to "spore drive". The drive navigates the so-called "mycelial network" that permeates not only our universe, but the entire multiverse (thus, it can be used to cross into other universes as well). Using the drive requires first growing special kind of fungal spores. In addition, it's discovered that a living navigator is necessary to correctly plot the course. Otherwise, only short jumps are reliable. They initially used a spaceborne tardigrade-like creature, but then the drive's creator Lieutenant Stamets used gene therapy to give himself some of the creature's DNA (which is illegal under Federation law, thanks to the Eugenics Wars), allowing him to be used as the navigator. Currently, only a single ship in Starfleet is equipped with the drive, as the Discovery 's sister ship Glenn was destroyed. At the end of Season 2, information on the spore drive, the Discovery and its crew are made classified at Spock's suggestion to prevent anyone from trying to bring back the dangerous AI Control . The technology is deemed lost until the Discovery ends up in the 32nd Century.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation , the player can accelerate the Enterprise from Warp 1 to Warp 9. At that, "Warp 9 Mode" begins, and there's a Timed Mission where additional shots can be made to advance the ship to Warp 9.9. "Encounter at Farpoint" states that Warp 9.7 was the extreme upperlimit and only achieved during one of Q's games.
Journey into Space : Space travel is limited to the inner planets and takes a very long time, until the Time Travellers show up in Journey to the Moon / Operation Luna .
The most common form of FTL is achieved by traveling through the Warp, a nightmarish dimension where the thoughts and emotions of sentient creatures give rise to dark gods and hordes of gibbering monstrosities . As such, ships require force fields to (hopefully) keep the crew from being eaten by daemons during Warp-jumps, and it takes members of a caste of psychic mutants called Navigators to pilot ships through the Immaterium. Since the Warp doesn't obey the laws of physics, vessels traveling through it move much faster than they would in realspace, but the exact ratio is fluid - sometimes a day in the Warp is equal to just under two weeks' travel in the material universe, while in other cases starships are lost for thousands of years, or emerge before they've left . Some charts even indicate that it's faster to travel across the galaxy than it is to hop to an adjacent sector. Further complicating matters are "currents" or "storms" in the Warp that can displace or destroy vessels, and unfortunately the only navigational aid is a psychic beacon on Holy Terra powered by the souls of thousands of psykers , which has been known to flicker and dim on occasion.
It's no surprise that other races have found alternatives to this form of travel. The Eldar have the Webway, a Portal Network that links points in realspace by tunnels through a dimension somewhere between the Warp and reality; however, this network is ancient and decaying, making some passages unusable or dangerous, while the Eldar's evil counterparts have built an entire civilization within it. The Tau , who lack a real psychic presence and therefore cannot fully enter the Warp, use special drives to briefly "dip" into it to boost themselves forward, which though much slower than proper Warp travel is much safer. The Tyranid hive fleets use a special bio-ship capable of slingshotting the fleet through space by harnessing a planet's gravity well, and the swarm typically goes into hibernation during the trip between systems. The Necrons use inertialess drives and large-scale teleportation technology eons more advanced than other races' FTL. And the Orks ... use the Warp anyway, because either the metal teeth they've riveted to their ships' hulls will scare the daemons off , or they'll have a pretty entertaining fight on the way to their next conquest.
Some of this was changed in later editions: You could travel less than a parsec; the jump still takes about 168 hours. However, you retain your speed-vector when you arrive, so you actually continuously accelerate to the point where you jump, and decelerate upon arrival, which burns a lot of fuel. And even more fuel if your calculation isn't perfect and you need to adjust the course. And still more fuel is used by the jump itself. And you need to be about 100 diameters away from a body because of gravitation (which would make for a safe jump 1,274,000 km away from Earth, somewhat more than 3 times the distance to the Moon). And due to the fact that in the Traveller-universe normally only one planet per system is interesting, this isn't really useful in most cases.
Inverted in the Spelljammer D&D setting, where game designers made up their own cosmic structure and laws of physics ("Everything you know about space is wrong.") instead of trying to talk their way around our universe's. Even then, superluminal travel happens only out of "normal" space — in-sphere spelljamming speed is "merely" 100 mln miles/day (4,166,666.7 mph), so even "double spelljamming speed" (a very rare case) shouldn't cause visible blue/red shifts.
There are also "Closed" warp points that are only detectable from one end, which the Bugs exploit to sneak attack Alpha Centauri
The Void Engineers of Mage: The Ascension had jump drive technology that was incredibly finicky to use. Odds were that a ship using it would leave pieces behind just as often as it came through intact.
GURPS : Spaceships telescopes all FTL into two groups. First the Stardrive system which can be Jump or Warp and secondly the Jump Gate system which creates whatever the local equivalent of wormholes is and is a portal drive.
The RPG 2300 AD (made by the same company as Traveller , but in a different setting) used the "stutterwarp", a method of going between stars (and traveling in-system) by making instantaneous micro-jumps. The faster the engines could cycle, the faster you could "move" through real space, up to 3.5 light years per day). The system was limited because the engines built up a technobabble charge that had to be discharged in a sufficiently steep gravity before the ship traveled a maximum of 7.7 light years. This meant that you couldn't directly get anywhere more than 7.7 light years away without having to stop somewhere around a sufficiently massive object. In addition, stutterwarp efficiently dropped off rapidly in a gravity well - if you got too close to a planet or star, you wouldn't be able to maintain orbital velocity. The game used a more-or-less accurate local star map around Earth, and the distance limitation meant travel was restricted to set routes, which sometimes formed choke points that were worth fighting over, and colonies at the end of their routes who were literally the ass-end of nowhere because explorers had nowhere else to go.
The Rifts : Phase World expansion setting has FTL drives directly affected by gravity, with the drives' maximum speed increasing the fewer gravitational influences there are on the trip. This has the effect of making travel between three local galaxies just as fast as traveling through the galaxies themselves, since there aren't as many stars slowing you down on the way.
The BattleTech universe features JumpShips capable of somehow creating and magnifying a 'rip' in the fabric of space-time and thereby jumping distances up to thirty light years in an instant...but which are otherwise generally (there are exceptions) only equipped with station-keeping drives that allow them to hold their position at the jump point while recharging, a process that generally takes a week or more. (Occasionally an enterprising military leader will arrange for faster travel by setting up a 'command circuit' with passengers and cargo transferring to a new and fully charged JumpShip immediately upon arrival, possibly several times in succession.) The Kearny-Fuchida Drive is highly sensitive to local gravity gradients and thus not generally usable within several astronomical units of something as massive as a star , though suitably daring crews can take advantage of "pirate points" (or LaGrange Points in other parlance) in the system, where the presence of other celestial bodies results in their respective gravitational influences cancelling out just right, to jump in closer than that. (Incidentally, the vast void of interstellar space is in theory perfectly safe to jump around in. One reason this isn't usually done, aside from the obvious one of no crew wanting to casually risk even a hypothetical drive failure stranding them light-years away from any human help all by themselves, is that most ships' primary method of recharging their K-F drive depends on solar sails ...)
Star*Drive : The titular Star Drive allows faster than light travel. How does it work? It just does. note It uses a ship's gravity drive to generate a black hole to get into or out of drivespace, according to the description in the Alternity rulebooks.
Fading Suns : Travel between solar systems is accomplished through a network of Jumpgates left behind by the Ur . No other method is possible, since any ships traveling through interstellar space is inevitably eaten by Daemons and Void Krakens . Which of course raises the question of how the Gates got there in the first place.
Space 1889 is technically an aversion, but one article in Challenge magazine ("Science Marches On" in #68, for those curious) did in fact have an Ether Flyer based FTL drive as a high tier item for players to invent. It works simply by accelerating faster than light, and won't work within 10k kilometers of a planet (in addition to any other limitations the GM deigns to impose).
Pathfinder : The rare "Starflight" ability allows a creature to fly between solar systems in a matter of weeks or months. It's possessed by beings like Outer Dragons , some Eldritch Abominations , and a few Mythic Wizards. That said, Teleportation magic lets people reach other planets instantaneously if they know what they're aiming at.
In Starfinder , set thousands of years into Pathfinder’s future, the newly ascended machine goddess Triune provided the specs to a purely technological FTL called “Drift Drive” that goes through a new plane of existence called The Drift and can take a ship anywhere in the galaxy in less than a month. Locations with Drift beacons built by the church of Triune can be reached in a couple weeks and Absalom Station, with the Starstone at its core, can always be traveled to in a week or less. However each jump pulls a small piece of another plane into the Drift and there’s a chance the ship will run into angry Outsiders, especially when jumping into deep space.
In the E.T. Adventure ride at Universal Studios , E.T. sends the "bicycles" the guests ride on into hyperspace in order to reach E.T.'s homeworld, which was previously said to be over three million light years away from Earth.
Space Mountain at Disneyland ends with the riders going into hyperspace in order to get back to the loading station.
Among other things, it implies a desperate research project to find a way to jam the teraport drive, preventing ships from entering or leaving a region via teraport. Fortunately for the survival of galactic civilization, though often unfortunately for the survival of the eponymous mercenaries, the project succeeded.
As far as communications goes, there's communications through hypernet relays - a Galaxy-Wide-Web. The signal explicitly takes less time to travel across the light-years than through the copper circuitry of the machinery, but there are still no FTL sensors. This is used for dramatic effect at least twice: once to facilitate learning about what happened in a Late to the Tragedy situation (fifty-two minutes late, specifically, so they park a sensor fifty-two light-minutes away to get a look), once in a situation where Kevyn realizes that the enemy, whom he is parleying with (and who is about a light-minute away), had fired missiles at him while they were negotiating .
The comic implies at a few points that causality holds throughout the galaxy because of all the teraporting and wormgates. Notably, when they start going to Andromeda, they're initially out of sync.
After narrowly escaping the destruction of the universe, the crew of the Fuseli end up in another one where the starslip drive has just been outlawed and replaced by the stellar superlinear propulsion ( STARSLIP for short) drive, which exploits the fact that there's no shorter distance between two places than a straight line, by finding an even straighter line. This functions as a Warp Drive, rather than a Jump Drive.
While an Escherspace jump itself is nearly instantaneous, many weeks of travel using conventional engines are still required as part of every trip, to ensure that the ship is at a safe distance from any massive astronomical body — if used carelessly, Escherspace jumps can release enough energy to alter the orbits of nearby planets.
During a jump, everyone aboard must take shelter in special "normalization booths"; the author has stated that this "creates a good separation between travel that's normal — adhering to the laws of physics — and travel that's abnormal, unnatural, and dangerous."
Among the Chosen requires psychic operators connected with hypertech for FTL travel.
Homestuck has beings of sufficient psionic power being able to push vessels into FTL travel with their mental abilities (though it ends badly for psionics due to the massive amount of energy it requires). The Condesce exploited this method of bypassing the laws of physics to turn her fleet of starships into a galaxy-conquering army. This is one of the more realistic portrayals of FTL travel, as even at sublight speeds jumps still take quite a bit of time (the biggest jump seen in the comic takes over three years , though time dilation was reversed in that case). Jade even gives a Lampshade Hanging on this in Act 6, noting that FTL travel is a completely different concept from teleportation.
tinyraygun : Warp Drives seem to be the order of the day, since its activated by a Big Red Button simply labeled "Faster", and ends up getting knocked off course by strange space egg colliding with the ship.
The nature and possession of the Ring Drive is one of the main plot concerns of the sci-fi comic Drive (Dave Kellett) . Humans didn't invent it, they copied it from a crashed alien ship. As a result, it's something of a Black Box to anyone other than the race that created it, but it seems to be a mix of Warp and Jump drives, making many tiny jumps along a path in such a way that you still need to worry about navigational hazards or pursuit. One of the Makers who do know how it works called it a "Singularity Drive".
Captain Ufo : The Widowpunisher (and supposedly all other spaceship in the universe) FTL speed is called "hyperblur" in-universe. The ship opens a wormhole to it's destinations and travels through it. In season two we see that the inside of the wormhole is a tunnel-like place, and that travelling through it is not instant, so it's a kind of hyperdrive,
Grrl Power has a portal network that ships can use, and there's atherium causeways; notably, due to destination-based technology restrictions, a ship could be barred from using at least one method at any particular time. note Essentially, if you're carrying cargo (or even personal items) of a higher level that your destination's society is expected to reasonably handle, you can't go there. "Don't give a caveman a gun." It turns out that Sydney's orbs can get her barred from the portal network at all times; even thought one of them can produce a standard atherium causeway, the fact that it can fit in a pocket is a problem — the only two known/understood ways involve either capital ships, or large-scale sacrifices of 1000+ psykers. In the 'caveman' analogy... it makes EVERYBODY look like a caveman.
Binary Stars : The Falconer is explicitly mentioned to have a warp drive.
NatOne Productions 's story-line Denazra both invokes and averts this trope. A gate network of artificial wormholes allows FTL travel between settled worlds, but there is no other known way to travel faster than the speed of light. When the Coalition wants to recruit a new species to join the fight against the denazra , they have to send space ships on lengthy journeys across the interstellar gulf.
The Jump Drive and Jump Gates enable this in Nexus Gate .
The main reason a hard sci-fi setting includes wormholes is that they're an Acceptable Break from Reality — you can't really have the interstellar civilizations the setting is built around without some form of faster-than-light infrastructure, so the writers went with the most realistic alternative they could find. Because modern science has yet to demonstrate that wormholes are impossible, OA considers them fair game.
Causality is protected in the OA universe - if you try to build a wormhole system that can form a closed timelike curve (i.e. allow time travel) the wormholes undergo something called Visser collapse. Given that this destroys both mouths of the wormhole and, from a distance, could be mistaken for a small supernova, you do not want to be within a couple of lightyears of a wormhole if this happens.
Most of the wormholes used in Orion's Arm are actually comm-gauge wormholes - microscopic wormholes used to send data but not big enough to send anything material through. These are significantly easier to manufacture and more stable than wormholes ships can pass through, which require enormous resources to build and maintain. They can also be located much closer to gravity wells than traversable wormholes. You still don't want to be standing close by if one collapses though...
Tech Infantry gets around the speed-of-light limit via a hyperspace system inspired by those seen in Babylon 5 and Honor Harrington .
In The Pentagon War , "hyper holes" provide an FTL portal network. They are created by aiming two very expensive bombs directly at one other from two different star systems, and detonating them simultaneously — a difficult feat even for a whole government to pull off. At the time of the story, only 5 pairs of linked hyper holes exist.
The technology is present in the Registry Of Time universe, although not as fast as some other examples. In one story it takes 20 years to reach a destination.
Phaeton has photon drives, which are described as the perfect FTL device.
The gods from Beyond the Impossible can’t travel faster than light, so they really need those starships . Except Hermes, who can teleport wherever he wants and is even called “the god who makes travel distances meaningless”.
Corti sealed drives are a significantly more efficient and faster version of the ALV -drive. How this is achieved is a highly guarded secret.
Wormholes need a beacon on both ends to work, but the displacement is instantaneous. The rest of the galaxy mainly uses it to relocate space stations, but humans have enthusiastically integrated it into their space combat doctrine.
Humans, not being satisfied with the available choices, found a third way in the form of jump arrays. These are capable of jumping a volume of space to a similarly sized array anywhere in the galaxy.
With clever usage of XACT s, the Foundation is capable of sending spacecraft to remote regions of space.
In Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers , two aliens give humanity access to a FTL device called the Hyperdrive in exchange for our help in vanquishing the series' Big Bad , the Queen of the Crown.
In the Animaniacs finale "Star Warners", the Bicentennial Falcon flies past a sign that says LIGHT SPEED STRICTLY ENFORCED.
One of the Comedy Central episodes had the Professor outfit the Planet Express ship with a short-range "dimensional drift" jump drive that took it through the fourth dimension.
Misty and Teen Team were all born in different galaxies and roam the universe regularly
In South Park , mankind accidentally discovers "warp speed" when Randy loads a piece of exotic matter stolen from the Large Hadron Collider on a toy car, which propels it outside the Earth at FTL speeds. Unfortunately by the end of the episode Earth is isolated from the rest of the universe .
Then again, this is the DC Universe , so that little tidbit isn't exactly very secret.
Implied in the The Magic School Bus episode "Gets Lost In Space", where the bus flew from Earth to the Sun to Pluto and back inside a school day. Even under ideal conditions (i.e. if all nine note The episode aired before Pluto was decided to not be a planet. planets were aligned, and they did the trip without stopping), this would require FTL capability. Made explicit in the star life cycle episode, where the bus crosses a distance of a billion billion miles (over 17 million light years, which would put it well outside the Milky Way ) in minutes. Then again, the bus is described as being magic for a reason.
In an Al Brodax Popeye cartoon, Popeye is recruited to spend sixty days in a space capsule by himself in an effort to gauge how long he can sustain himself without going crazy. The capsule gets doused within with aerosol spinach, causing it to blast off into space so fast (sixty times as normal, says one of the scientists) it causes earth time to go backwards.
In 3-2-1 Penguins! , the Rockhopper, the Penguins' spaceship, has the ability to travel to distant planets in only a few hours.
In the I Am Weasel episode "The Magnificent Motorbikini", the titular vehicle travels faster than the speed of light and eventually propels Weasel and Baboon into another dimension.
In the Ready Jet Go! special "Back to Bortron 7", the Propulsions convert their house back into a starship for a visit to their home planet. Whereas their usual saucer has used Interplanetary Hyperdrive to bring the kids on tours within the solar system, this much longer journey requires Interstellar Super drive. Details on how it works aren't given, but their journey is accompanied by a flashier, more colorful variant on the light-speed F/X from Star Wars .
The Lightfold Drive in Final Space allowed starships (including smaller spaceships, and even eject pods ) to go from one part of the galaxy to another in a matter of minutes. Usually involves spinning the Lightfold Drive at hyperspeed, this works by having the Drive "bend" the light it emits at a speed so fast, it literally bends the gravity and space it occupied, immediately propelling the ship to its destination. This is accompanied by the colorful spinning vortex of light every time the ship "lightfolds", and is noted that the "light" in the Lightfold Drives can vaporizes anything it touches at full charge. Season 2 introduces a second method called Drop Drive, which is even faster.
In StarCom: The U.S. Space Force , starships have warp drives that generate artificial wormholes in order to enter hyperspace. This lets people travel across the solar system fairly quickly.
In Steven Universe , all Era 2 Gem spaceships seem to have this capability, by way of Warp drives. This allows them to cover in minutes distances that Era 1 ships would take decades to travel. It should be noted that Gems can't die of old age or natural causes, so technically they don't need it, but it certainly makes things much faster and practical. Pearl, for one, sees 70 years of space travel (not accounting for the trip back) as perfectly reasonable, forgetting the trip is to rescue Steven's dad, a human.

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A Groundbreaking Scientific Discovery Just Gave Humanity the Keys to Interstellar Travel

In a first, this warp drive actually obeys the laws of physics.

If a superluminal—meaning faster than the speed of light—warp drive like Alcubierre’s worked, it would revolutionize humanity’s endeavors across the universe , allowing us, perhaps, to reach Alpha Centauri, our closest star system, in days or weeks even though it’s four light years away.

However, the Alcubierre drive has a glaring problem: the force behind its operation, called “negative energy,” involves exotic particles—hypothetical matter that, as far as we know, doesn’t exist in our universe. Described only in mathematical terms, exotic particles act in unexpected ways, like having negative mass and working in opposition to gravity (in fact, it has “anti-gravity”). For the past 30 years, scientists have been publishing research that chips away at the inherent hurdles to light speed revealed in Alcubierre’s foundational 1994 article published in the peer-reviewed journal Classical and Quantum Gravity .

Now, researchers at the New York City-based think tank Applied Physics believe they’ve found a creative new approach to solving the warp drive’s fundamental roadblock. Along with colleagues from other institutions, the team envisioned a “positive energy” system that doesn’t violate the known laws of physics . It’s a game-changer, say two of the study’s authors: Gianni Martire, CEO of Applied Physics, and Jared Fuchs, Ph.D., a senior scientist there. Their work, also published in Classical and Quantum Gravity in late April, could be the first chapter in the manual for interstellar spaceflight.

POSITIVE ENERGY MAKES all the difference. Imagine you are an astronaut in space, pushing a tennis ball away from you. Instead of moving away, the ball pushes back, to the point that it would “take your hand off” if you applied enough pushing force, Martire tells Popular Mechanics . That’s a sign of negative energy, and, though the Alcubierre drive design requires it, there’s no way to harness it.

Instead, regular old positive energy is more feasible for constructing the “ warp bubble .” As its name suggests, it’s a spherical structure that surrounds and encloses space for a passenger ship using a shell of regular—but incredibly dense—matter. The bubble propels the spaceship using the powerful gravity of the shell, but without causing the passengers to feel any acceleration. “An elevator ride would be more eventful,” Martire says.

That’s because the density of the shell, as well as the pressure it exerts on the interior, is controlled carefully, Fuchs tells Popular Mechanics . Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, according to the gravity-bound principles of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity . So the bubble is designed such that observers within their local spacetime environment—inside the bubble—experience normal movement in time. Simultaneously, the bubble itself compresses the spacetime in front of the ship and expands it behind the ship, ferrying itself and the contained craft incredibly fast. The walls of the bubble generate the necessary momentum, akin to the momentum of balls rolling, Fuchs explains. “It’s the movement of the matter in the walls that actually creates the effect for passengers on the inside.”

Building on its 2021 paper published in Classical and Quantum Gravity —which details the same researchers’ earlier work on physical warp drives—the team was able to model the complexity of the system using its own computational program, Warp Factory. This toolkit for modeling warp drive spacetimes allows researchers to evaluate Einstein’s field equations and compute the energy conditions required for various warp drive geometries. Anyone can download and use it for free . These experiments led to what Fuchs calls a mini model, the first general model of a positive-energy warp drive. Their past work also demonstrated that the amount of energy a warp bubble requires depends on the shape of the bubble; for example, the flatter the bubble in the direction of travel, the less energy it needs.

THIS LATEST ADVANCEMENT suggests fresh possibilities for studying warp travel design, Erik Lentz, Ph.D., tells Popular Mechanics . In his current position as a staff physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, Lentz contributes to research on dark matter detection and quantum information science research. His independent research in warp drive theory also aims to be grounded in conventional physics while reimagining the shape of warped space. The topic needs to overcome many practical hurdles, he says.

Controlling warp bubbles requires a great deal of coordination because they involve enormous amounts of matter and energy to keep the passengers safe and with a similar passage of time as the destination. “We could just as well engineer spacetime where time passes much differently inside [the passenger compartment] than outside. We could miss our appointment at Proxima Centauri if we aren’t careful,” Lentz says. “That is still a risk if we are traveling less than the speed of light.” Communication between people inside the bubble and outside could also become distorted as it passes through the curvature of warped space, he adds.

While Applied Physics’ current solution requires a warp drive that travels below the speed of light, the model still needs to plug in a mass equivalent to about two Jupiters. Otherwise, it will never achieve the gravitational force and momentum high enough to cause a meaningful warp effect. But no one knows what the source of this mass could be—not yet, at least. Some research suggests that if we could somehow harness dark matter , we could use it for light-speed travel, but Fuchs and Martire are doubtful, since it’s currently a big mystery (and an exotic particle).

Despite the many problems scientists still need to solve to build a working warp drive, the Applied Physics team claims its model should eventually get closer to light speed. And even if a feasible model remains below the speed of light, it’s a vast improvement over today’s technology. For example, traveling at even half the speed of light to Alpha Centauri would take nine years. In stark contrast, our fastest spacecraft, Voyager 1—currently traveling at 38,000 miles per hour—would take 75,000 years to reach our closest neighboring star system.

Of course, as you approach the actual speed of light, things get truly weird, according to the principles of Einstein’s special relativity . The mass of an object moving faster and faster would increase infinitely, eventually requiring an infinite amount of energy to maintain its speed.

“That’s the chief limitation and key challenge we have to overcome—how can we have all this matter in our [bubble], but not at such a scale that we can never even put it together?” Martire says. It’s possible the answer lies in condensed matter physics, he adds. This branch of physics deals particularly with the forces between atoms and electrons in matter. It has already proven fundamental to several of our current technologies, such as transistors, solid-state lasers, and magnetic storage media.

The other big issue is that current models allow a stable warp bubble, but only for a constant velocity. Scientists still need to figure out how to design an initial acceleration. On the other end of the journey, how will the ship slow down and stop? “It’s like trying to grasp the automobile for the first time,” Martire says. “We don’t have an engine just yet, but we see the light at the end of the tunnel.” Warp drive technology is at the stage of 1882 car technology, he says: when automobile travel was possible, but it still looked like a hard, hard problem.

The Applied Physics team believes future innovations in warp travel are inevitable. The general positive energy model is a first step. Besides, you don’t need to zoom at light speed to achieve distances that today are just a dream, Martire says. “Humanity is officially, mathematically, on an interstellar track.”

Before joining Popular Mechanics , Manasee Wagh worked as a newspaper reporter, a science journalist, a tech writer, and a computer engineer. She’s always looking for ways to combine the three greatest joys in her life: science, travel, and food.

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FTL
Faster-than-light travel, often abbreviated to FTL, is the method by which ships traverse the vast emptiness of space between star systems. FTL drives are improved with advancing technology, eventually unlocking drives which can "jump", moving from one system to another in an instant. A fleet initiates FTL travel when any ship in the fleet ...
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1.709. 2.563. Sep 3, 2015. Add bookmark. #5. I really hope there are ways to get access to more than one form of FTL at some point in the game. For example - capturing an enemy's ships and reverse engineering their technology. Given the potential advantages to having access to multiple types (e.g. warp travel gets you to new star systems where ...
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All methods of FTL-travel can be improved by researching more advanced technologies. While their exact effects differ some they all improve the speed, range, efficiency or cooldown of FTL-travel. However, being able to casually bend time and space with increased power does not necessarily mean using it with more responsibility.
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Stellaris FTL changes are in the warp pipes. Paradox is packing everyone onto the space-highway, and reworking how FTL travel works in their galactic 4X game, Stellaris. While you can currently choose either Warp, Hyperdrive or Wormholes as your space empire's means of travel, Paradox have decided that having asymmetrical movement methods ...
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Freedom of movement: You can go to any systems in warp range. Cooldown after warping: Your warp drives need to charge after you've warped. Shortest range and slowest travel time. Warp drives need to be fitted to each ship. Your biggest advantage with warp would be the freedom to go anywhere. You might be slow but you won't need to think ahead ...
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Stellaris Dev Diary #92: FTL Rework and Galactic Terrain. Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today's dev diary is about Faster than Light travel in the Cherryh update, and it's likely to be a controversial one. When discussing, please remember to keep things civil, and I would kindly ask that you read the entire ...
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Jump Drives combine most of the advantages of each of the starting FTL types; the freedom to go to any destination within range, instantaneous FTL transit, and a fixed 15-day warm-up and 5-day cooldown that doesn't scale upward with larger fleet sizes. Personally, I've come to prefer wormholes as a starting FTL method, though, especially since ...
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The galaxy is a pretty huge place and to get anywhere in a timely manner you'll want to travel faster than the speed of light, or use FTL-travel for short. Stellaris will have three methods of FTL that players can use; Warp, Hyperlanes and Wormholes. They all have distinct advantages and disadvantages when it comes to the strategic movement ...
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Multiple FTL technologies Does anyone know if you'll be able to research, through destroyed ships or regular means, the other forms of FTL travel? Say you start out as a warp empire and you want to build hyper lanes between your capital and other colonies.
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