#ftl drive

[leaky-port-nacelle]

“Black holes are dangerous and scary and nothing in the universe could ever possibly come out once it’s past the event horizon” YOU HAVE WARP DRIVE!!!

THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF YOUR WHOLE GODDAMN ENGINE IS TO SOLVE THIS SPECIFIC PROBLEM

The event horizon of a black hole is just the radius at which the escape velocity equals the speed of light. That’s it! Noting can come out of it because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But that is LITERALLY WHAT YOU INVENTED WARP DRIVE FOR???

Like yeah okay sure maybe you can hand wave and say there are reasons that there is another inner limit somewhere further in. But if you have FTL travel, I PROMISE you can dip inside a black hole at least a little bit and be fine. That’s literally the whole point of your whole goddamn super space engine

[davecd24]

A Drift Alternative: Jump Drives

JUMP GATE TECHNOLOGYIf a starship cannot reach the speed of light through sheer thrust, perhaps the answer lies in bending the laws of time andspace so that the distance itself is shorter. A ship could then get around the need to travel at relativistic speeds, leaving behindthe problem of increased mass and negating—if not actually reversing— the effects of time dilation. In other words, if…

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[neither]

I live in Fort Lauderdale which has the name initials as faster than the speed of light and no one can relate

[superzentredi001]

The Cosmic Star: The FTL Drive

The Cosmic Star: The FTL Drive

We are shown the most intricate and expensive machine that mankind has ever built: The FTL Alcubierre Drive

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[sucodelarangela]

Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.

Starships still require conventional thrusters (chemical rockets, commercial fusion torch, economy ion engine, or military antiproton drive) in addition to the FTL drive core. With only a core, a ship has no motive power.

The amount of element zero and power required for a drive increases exponentially to the mass being moved and the degree it is being lightened. Very massive ships or very high speeds are prohibitively expensive.

If the field collapses while the ship is moving at faster-than-light speeds, the effects are catastrophic. The ship is snapped back to sublight velocity, the enormous excess energy shed in the form of lethal Cherenkov radiation.

Mass Effect > Codex > Primary > Ships and Vehicles > FTL Drive

[missnewquay]

Activate Hyperdrive!

[forgotn1]

Sometimes when I'm watching a sci-fi movie or show and they build something out of this world like a plasma rifle or FTL drive, I'll look at it and try to figure out how it works and what all the parts do. It takes me longer than it should to realize that it was created by the props department and doesn't actually function.