Superluminal

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Travelling faster than the speed of light. This is not possible in a physical medium, so, in Solar Storms, humanity cheats through various means.

Tachyons were the first method so discovered, enabling faster-than-light communications over vast distances.

Stellar gates were the second method engineered. While all seven gates are under construction, with three activated, only the Centaurus Gate is actually ready.

Gravitic drives are a means of warping spacetime in a local vacinity, close to the concept of a warp drive. However, acceleration is quite slow without immense energies powering the drive. The Dyrajt, in the Contact War, had to expend some fifty yottajoules (fifty million million million million joules of energy) per kilogram to reach the Solar System in such a short period.

Hyperspace is the medium through which tachyons travel, and could, in theory, be used to move a pocket Universe at a far faster rate than normal light.


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