FTL Travel

FTL Travel usually describes the act of propelling an object, usually a spacecraft, to Faster Than Light speeds. It usually marks a vital step in the inter-system development of a species. Another form is the use of portals or any other kind of teleportation, as they also get objects from point A to point B in time unproportional to "conventional" travel methods.
Over the years and in different species multiple solutions for this purpose have been developed, each one with their special abilities and limitations.
==FTL Methods==
===Herculina-Drive===
The Herculina-Drive is a one of a kind interstellar propulsion method more powerful than the most advanced of warp drives that utilises an anomalous black hole designated "SDS-025" to achieve FTL travel. Due to this requirement, only 1 ship can utilise it.
===Infinity-Drive===
Infinity-Drives are an advanced form of FTL Travel developed by The Quhanim in order to traverse the intergalactic void with relative ease. Infinity-Drives function by distorting reality/spacetime in order to rapidly "push" a spacecraft through spacetime. In order for a ship to survive this distortion process it needs to be massive and armoured enough to withstand significant force, limiting Infinity-Drives to larger spacecrafts.
Ships using Infinity-Drives can be tracked much easier than most other FTL methods due to detectable trails of radiation and ripples in spacetime they leave behind them.
=== Isolation Warp-Drive ===
Isolation Warp-Drives function by using loopholes in physics to avoid encountering the speed of light. On activation ships are encompassed by a spacetime bubble designed to entirely isolate the ship from the outside spacetime of the universe. This bubble is then moved at FTL speeds, dissipating and materializing the ship back to normal spacetime on arrival, then dissipating the isolation bubble. 
Ships using Isolation Warp-Drives never reaches or surpasses light speed, instead the spacetime bubble simply isolates them from the laws of physics.
There are still downsides to Isolation-Drives though; 
*As the isolation bubble is a closed system, excess heat, radiation, and waste from the ships accumulate within the bubble until arrival.
*The Isolation Bubble itself is still affected by the gravity of the surrounding universe, and thus can be dragged off its course.
*The Drives themselves are extremely large, often taking up a majority of a ship.
===Limidrive===
The Limidrive is a unique form of FTL travel developed by the SDS Foundation. It utilises the SDS Foundation's extradimensional warping technology to transition the spacecraft into the void between liminal spaces, and then accelerating through this space via more conventional Sub-FTL methods. Once it has traveled a specified distance it will re-enter baseline reality, showing that it has traveled at a accelerated speed.
===Psionic Warp===
The form of Subspace accessed by Psionic Warp-Drives is by far one of the fastest FTL methods to be discovered, allowing for easy access across space within only a few hours at most, often less. Though, there is one major downside to this realm, this being that the Subspace form is extremely chaotic, and completely impossible to navigate and emerge from alive for standard sapients, including humans.
Though, there are some psionically attuned speciesHumans are not a psionically attuned species, thus 99.99...% of humanity is completely incapable of using Psionic Warp, and the remaining 0.00...1%, whom are typically a rare case of a "para"human, are only able to do it with psionic stiumulants. who are capable of navigating this realm if specific psionic stimulants are ingested, allowing for the capability to perceive mental connections to grow drastically. Thus allowing them to safely navigate the Subspace Realm, achieving its extreme speed and efficiency.
Though there is a downside that said psionically attuned species/individual must personally know a conscious being residing at the "arrival point" so that they can sense them through the Psionic Warp, making exploration or military use for the method highly impractical if not impossible.
===Psuedospace-Drive===
(MAY BE REIMAGINED AT SOMEPOINT)
Psuedospace-Drives actively break the laws of physics, shattering reality entirely in a shell around a spacecraft, allowing for them to accelerate at rates otherwise impossible in normal reality. Though, Psuedospace-Drives are not stable in most cases. At low multiples of the speed of light they work fine, but if their velocity goes too high they are prone to either glitching, causing a spatial anomaly or tearing a hole in reality. While this may simply slingshot a ship haphazardly into the beyond, more often it can end up shooting a ship through reality itself, essentially "hopping" the vessel to another dimensionThis capability has been used intentionally in the past, though only reliably do-able by accelerating to <67.5 kilometers per second per megaparsec .
Psuedospace-Drives were among some of the first FTL Drives to be made by humanity, though due to their unreliable nature they have mostly fallen out of use eversince the advent of more secure FTL-Drives
===Void(space) Drive ===
A Void drives works by causing a controlled collapse of an object via through the usage of void matter. If done correctly, this leads to the object being send into "Voidspace" where it is subjected to the forces there. Since the only real way to move through voidspace relies on advanced technologies like gravity or void engines, the momentum and heading of a craft is usually achieved previous to entering voidspace where it is then amplified by the chaotic forces there.
To exit voidspace, one simply requires an explosive force, preferably activated at the correct time to exit at the correct point along ones heading.
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