Faster Than Light Travel
Faster Than Light Travel
FTL is, within the normal Laws of Physics, not possible. However there is a Sub layer of Reality. Imagine a Glass of water, viewing it from the Outside you have two clearly divided sides. Above is Air with a sort of Layer a Membrane through surface Tension that keeps the rest of the water within the Glass. Now Imagine dropping a little rock in it. Just enough to break the Surface Tension. This is how you can imagine FTL Travel.
The Deeper you dive, the Faster than Light you go. Early Drives were Skimming on the Surface but Modern Gateways and Ships are capable of diving Deep into the Space. But it also has Inherit Dangers. Uncontrolled Exit through the Membrane could leave you Exiting not at a Reasonable Speed but more like at 1C, Or in otherwards becoming a Lightning Fast piece of Debris. Because of this Civilians and Military Alike Prefer to use the Gateways.
FTL Drives
Gateways
Discovery
2200 - Humanity went to the stars for the first time utilizing FTL Travel
2388 - Gateways would become utilized in travel between populated systems
In 2165, a group of researchers at the Titan International Deep Space Research Base prepared an experiment concerning Singularity Research. The Team setup an experiment to form a short and controlled point of Singularity in order to study it's results and, if all goes well perhaps figure out a way to utilize it in some way.
Titan was chosen for this as it was remote enough to not have any problems yet close enough to supporting bases to not be completely cutoff.
On March 10, 2165 8:30 Local time it was scheduled to start.
What later would be called "The First Jump" and turn into a common idiom among humans about how from the very beginning we knew what happens when uncontrolled jumping accurs, happend.
by 8:32 Head Researcher Dr. Marcel Christian Jackson noted that the data they recieved seemed "Odd".
by 8:33 Titan DSR Base lost ~50% of it's mass with nearly the entire research team being presumed dead.
What had happend? Jackson and his team, by pure accident constructed an experiment that would pierce the "Aether" as it was dubbed afterward and later the Membrane. Half of the base was flung across the surrounding area of SOL in a fine mist, Phobos Local Star Telescopse
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