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[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | Si'kthwrn had come to the SI-66, but had broken down close to Setharis III, designation: WORLD. Unfortunately, her Tel-EM Drive had cascaded, causing a temporal rupture on her ship. Si'kth was lucky to escape with her life.
She skidded in through the doors of Crazy Dave's Intergalactic Transport Emporium, to the so... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | Si'kthwrn had come to the SI-66, but had broken down close to Setharis III, designation: WORLD. Unfortunately, her Tel-EM Drive had cascaded, causing a temporal rupture on her ship. Si'kth was lucky to escape with her life.
She skidded in through the doors of Crazy Dave's Intergalactic Transport Emporium, to the so... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | Si'kthwrn had come to the SI-66, but had broken down close to Setharis III, designation: WORLD. Unfortunately, her Tel-EM Drive had cascaded, causing a temporal rupture on her ship. Si'kth was lucky to escape with her life.
She skidded in through the doors of Crazy Dave's Intergalactic Transport Emporium, to the so... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | Si'kthwrn had come to the SI-66, but had broken down close to Setharis III, designation: WORLD. Unfortunately, her Tel-EM Drive had cascaded, causing a temporal rupture on her ship. Si'kth was lucky to escape with her life.
She skidded in through the doors of Crazy Dave's Intergalactic Transport Emporium, to the so... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | Si'kthwrn had come to the SI-66, but had broken down close to Setharis III, designation: WORLD. Unfortunately, her Tel-EM Drive had cascaded, causing a temporal rupture on her ship. Si'kth was lucky to escape with her life.
She skidded in through the doors of Crazy Dave's Intergalactic Transport Emporium, to the so... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Just divide by zero!" the human exclaimed excitedly.
"Excuse me?"
"Just divide by zero. Well, divide by zero, a lot... And really quickly... But essentially divide by zero enough times and, Bam! FTL. Who knew?!"
Graxlytizzq, G, for short, shook his head in disbelief. He had come here at the request of the IGSTA (In... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | There once was a human from Earth,
Who studied for all of their worth,
To travel the expanse of space,
This human created a gun,
To travel at the fastest pace,
This human blew up their own sun. | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | To whom it may concern,
We have recently been informed by our observation satellites that you have finally discovered faster then light travel.
We, the Alliance of the Great Races have decided send you this letter instead of meeting you in person declining any chance of being indoctrinated into the Alliance. Said re... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The *Sunseeker*'s control room was dead silent except for the low *beep-beep-beep* of the deep space radar. The screen lights flashed a dim blue against the vast blankness of space, but nothing else moved, or breathed in the cavernous space.
A line of blue light appeared in the middle of the room, then expanded into a... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "You need to stop this. Now." ~UTHQ
It seemed like a strange message from the UT at first, the United Terrans organization, formed by the world's leading space agencies to represent all of humanity and the Earth as we ventured out of the solar system for the first time.
But this wasn't from the UT.
It couldn't be. T... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The First Ambassador to Humanity swirled idly in its container and moved to the next item on its list.
"Your FTL technology", it asked the panel of assembled human leaders, "How does it work?"
The humans exchanged surprised looks. The one at the end of the panel eventually speaking.
"You mean the Confounder?"
"If ... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | "Mr. Moses Constantine. Step forward." The voice was imperious and powerful; it belonged to a broad, extremely tall humanoid; it's feathers were a dark grey similar to iron, and it's eyes burned red like coal. The young "Scientist" stepped forward. "You are the one who created the... Conquistador Drive?"
"Tha's 'bout... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | **Edit: Apologies, I kind of got a little carried away with my thought and forgot all the given prerequisites in the prompt, though I felt they were a little numerous in the first place. I just went with the flow.**
The magnificently ornate council chamber of Ashtar Galactic Command was for the first time in history, ... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Just divide by zero!" the human exclaimed excitedly.
"Excuse me?"
"Just divide by zero. Well, divide by zero, a lot... And really quickly... But essentially divide by zero enough times and, Bam! FTL. Who knew?!"
Graxlytizzq, G, for short, shook his head in disbelief. He had come here at the request of the IGSTA (In... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | There once was a human from Earth,
Who studied for all of their worth,
To travel the expanse of space,
This human created a gun,
To travel at the fastest pace,
This human blew up their own sun. | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | To whom it may concern,
We have recently been informed by our observation satellites that you have finally discovered faster then light travel.
We, the Alliance of the Great Races have decided send you this letter instead of meeting you in person declining any chance of being indoctrinated into the Alliance. Said re... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The *Sunseeker*'s control room was dead silent except for the low *beep-beep-beep* of the deep space radar. The screen lights flashed a dim blue against the vast blankness of space, but nothing else moved, or breathed in the cavernous space.
A line of blue light appeared in the middle of the room, then expanded into a... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | *What is that you said? They use* **Explosions**?*
*"Yes"* - - **"explosions"***
*"You mean chemical reactions using the laws of thermodynamics?"*
*"Yes, in larger scales - that's what the humans refer to as* **explosions**, *their entire civilization was built around using them but not watching them for some reason... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Surely you can't be serious?" Said one of the Xygian scientists to the Human delegation.
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Replied Dr. Filmer before receiving a high-five from one of the other members of the delegation.
The Xygians continued "We cannot, in good faith, approve of this travel mechanism. You... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "You need to stop this. Now." ~UTHQ
It seemed like a strange message from the UT at first, the United Terrans organization, formed by the world's leading space agencies to represent all of humanity and the Earth as we ventured out of the solar system for the first time.
But this wasn't from the UT.
It couldn't be. T... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The First Ambassador to Humanity swirled idly in its container and moved to the next item on its list.
"Your FTL technology", it asked the panel of assembled human leaders, "How does it work?"
The humans exchanged surprised looks. The one at the end of the panel eventually speaking.
"You mean the Confounder?"
"If ... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | We saw the opportunity and by the gods, we took it.
FTL travel was always a ways off for earth's scientists, I mean sure, we had near-lightspeed travel for now but frankly, ever since Humanity blundered into contact with the other races, they've been stingy with the secrets to FTL travel, considering us "crude" and "u... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "I'll try to explain ... the problem is ... it's not THAT you can travel faster than light." the small alien said, sheepishly. "It's how you do it."
She continued, "To be honest, it's creepy."
Doug stared at her blankly. "Go on ..."
"Ok , you know how FTL works for the rest of us, right?" She cocked her head a bit.... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | The fields were in alignment. Chief Engineer D. N. Adams watched as his subordinates swarmed the deck, energising the various devices necessary for the Drive to function perfectly. He looked inside, observing the core with unease.
The core, as it was described, was what could only be described as a metric shit-ton of ... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | **Edit: Apologies, I kind of got a little carried away with my thought and forgot all the given prerequisites in the prompt, though I felt they were a little numerous in the first place. I just went with the flow.**
The magnificently ornate council chamber of Ashtar Galactic Command was for the first time in history, ... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Just divide by zero!" the human exclaimed excitedly.
"Excuse me?"
"Just divide by zero. Well, divide by zero, a lot... And really quickly... But essentially divide by zero enough times and, Bam! FTL. Who knew?!"
Graxlytizzq, G, for short, shook his head in disbelief. He had come here at the request of the IGSTA (In... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | There once was a human from Earth,
Who studied for all of their worth,
To travel the expanse of space,
This human created a gun,
To travel at the fastest pace,
This human blew up their own sun. | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | To whom it may concern,
We have recently been informed by our observation satellites that you have finally discovered faster then light travel.
We, the Alliance of the Great Races have decided send you this letter instead of meeting you in person declining any chance of being indoctrinated into the Alliance. Said re... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The *Sunseeker*'s control room was dead silent except for the low *beep-beep-beep* of the deep space radar. The screen lights flashed a dim blue against the vast blankness of space, but nothing else moved, or breathed in the cavernous space.
A line of blue light appeared in the middle of the room, then expanded into a... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | *What is that you said? They use* **Explosions**?*
*"Yes"* - - **"explosions"***
*"You mean chemical reactions using the laws of thermodynamics?"*
*"Yes, in larger scales - that's what the humans refer to as* **explosions**, *their entire civilization was built around using them but not watching them for some reason... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Surely you can't be serious?" Said one of the Xygian scientists to the Human delegation.
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." Replied Dr. Filmer before receiving a high-five from one of the other members of the delegation.
The Xygians continued "We cannot, in good faith, approve of this travel mechanism. You... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "You need to stop this. Now." ~UTHQ
It seemed like a strange message from the UT at first, the United Terrans organization, formed by the world's leading space agencies to represent all of humanity and the Earth as we ventured out of the solar system for the first time.
But this wasn't from the UT.
It couldn't be. T... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The First Ambassador to Humanity swirled idly in its container and moved to the next item on its list.
"Your FTL technology", it asked the panel of assembled human leaders, "How does it work?"
The humans exchanged surprised looks. The one at the end of the panel eventually speaking.
"You mean the Confounder?"
"If ... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | We saw the opportunity and by the gods, we took it.
FTL travel was always a ways off for earth's scientists, I mean sure, we had near-lightspeed travel for now but frankly, ever since Humanity blundered into contact with the other races, they've been stingy with the secrets to FTL travel, considering us "crude" and "u... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | "Your planet has completed more than 4000 rotations since I graduated, but I haven't seen anything so fucked up ever"
"Oh c'mon!Ours is not that fucked up!The greenskins go through a dimension of mindfuckery littered with god knows what,the Asgardians create miniature black holes!We are quite traditional compared to t... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Just divide by zero!" the human exclaimed excitedly.
"Excuse me?"
"Just divide by zero. Well, divide by zero, a lot... And really quickly... But essentially divide by zero enough times and, Bam! FTL. Who knew?!"
Graxlytizzq, G, for short, shook his head in disbelief. He had come here at the request of the IGSTA (In... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | There once was a human from Earth,
Who studied for all of their worth,
To travel the expanse of space,
This human created a gun,
To travel at the fastest pace,
This human blew up their own sun. | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | To whom it may concern,
We have recently been informed by our observation satellites that you have finally discovered faster then light travel.
We, the Alliance of the Great Races have decided send you this letter instead of meeting you in person declining any chance of being indoctrinated into the Alliance. Said re... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The *Sunseeker*'s control room was dead silent except for the low *beep-beep-beep* of the deep space radar. The screen lights flashed a dim blue against the vast blankness of space, but nothing else moved, or breathed in the cavernous space.
A line of blue light appeared in the middle of the room, then expanded into a... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "You need to stop this. Now." ~UTHQ
It seemed like a strange message from the UT at first, the United Terrans organization, formed by the world's leading space agencies to represent all of humanity and the Earth as we ventured out of the solar system for the first time.
But this wasn't from the UT.
It couldn't be. T... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “We must keep the Humans believing that their FTL system is unsafe, unorthodox and damn stupid. That is the point of this of this Special Hearing of The Supreme Council of the New Species Traveling Faster than Light. I am Farlack, Supreme Councilor of the Organization of Galactic Legal Advisors. ^(legal disclaimer: N... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "So, about the humans..." Said a voice with diplomatic neutrality.
Groans from a myriad of different species' voices could be heard throughout the conference hall. There was a meeting being held on how to properly welcome these new, strange creatures now that they had, technically, at least, achieved Faster Than Light... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Xandar was fuming. 20 smismars he'd been waiting in the bowels of that horrible assembling of junk and metal the humans proudly called their *flagship of intergalactic friendship*. It was bad enough when those hairless pink monkeys made it to outer space but now they had developped a functioning FTL drive and that made... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | "Jaxon!"
Great. Right when I thought I had a break. I pulled myself out of my hammock in our shelter and walked down the stairs to the opening area. "Yeah Hera?" Hera was a Phraxyan, a big species in colonization. Humans and Phraxyans and tried to colonize the same planet, so we agreed to share it. Which is why she was... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | There once was a human from Earth,
Who studied for all of their worth,
To travel the expanse of space,
This human created a gun,
To travel at the fastest pace,
This human blew up their own sun. | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Faster than light (ftl) travel happens fast, people knew that from the outset.
Ftl traffic accidents happen faster, people were just smart enough to figure that out beforehand.
What most people didn't know before they tried faster than light travel, however, was that even if it doesn't go wrong directly going about... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Humanity's solution was space-folding. The problem is that in the folding process, anything along the "crease" is annihilated utterly. The most difficult part of the process was mapping an infinite trajectory in opposite directions and seeing to it that nothing of value was along this line. This inevitably led to pr... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The Octo generational-carrier-ship hung over the blasted world. The only readings were the residual effects of the heavy radiation from the countless fusion bombs dropped on it.
A youngling pondered aloud "Why would we destroy a sentient species?"
"They broke the galaxy, youngling."
"How?"
The commander-elect thou... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | To whom it may concern,
We have recently been informed by our observation satellites that you have finally discovered faster then light travel.
We, the Alliance of the Great Races have decided send you this letter instead of meeting you in person declining any chance of being indoctrinated into the Alliance. Said re... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | The inhabitants of Oflesq station heard what they had come to learn was the characteristic sound of imminent human arrival. No one understood it. A vast mooing, defying the supposed absence of sound travel in empty space. A mooing that sent chills down both of their spines; as if it were the old gods that had come, cal... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... | |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Trendsetti was looking at the report on the testing of forward-pushed wormhole system, and he wasn't happy.
On paper, FPWS should have been perfect. A space ship does a couple of certain calculations about its destination, sends the results into its Yadari-Futara particle launcher, fires a reversed Yadari particle pro... | The goofy little scientist pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "I really don't see a *problem* with it" he said defiantly before the U.N. security council, "It's not like the aliens have some kind of ownership over universal constants.
"Well they're pretty angry at us. And it's ***YOUR*** fault for deve... |
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