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[Eagle_eye]

Unless of course the laser is strong enough to shove them out of the way.

[Descan]

I don't think any methods we have to detect space distortion work at faster that light...

[Virex]

Sending messenger ships back and forth, carrying information between locations. Sort of like how we had runners in the past to relay information, but in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

And name the organization managing all of that the Spacing Guild while we're at it.

[Bauglir]

Sending messenger ships back and forth, carrying information between locations. Sort of like how we had runners in the past to relay information, but in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

And name the organization managing all of that the Spacing Guild while we're at it.

Could we call it the Space Post Office of Space?

[Teneb]

Could we call it the Space Post Office of Space?

Needs more Space.

[Virex]

Needs more spice.

[Starver]

Now, if only I could fully quote here the list of public holidays that the Babylon 5 post office observed...

[Darvi]

Needs more spice.

This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.

[Solifuge]

Needs more spice.

This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.

Hehe... speaking of which, the whole reason for the spice was to give Navigators the prescient vision needed to know the one trajectory that wouldn't warp your ship into any solid matter. When you're traveling at near-relativistic speeds, a pebble or cloud of dust will collide with you and generate enough heat and pressure to trigger explosions of plasma and nuclear fusion. And that's during the fraction of an instant that they completely slice through the ship, you, and everything else you're carrying.

However... since these are only moving on a 4D/Time Axis, and not in 3D Space, I wonder if this bubble of local space/time will repel other matter from outside. And if so, that has a whole 'nother set of awesome applications in things like force-fields, etc.

[RedWarrior0]

What's your favorite thing about space? _{Mine is space}

SPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACESPACE SPAAAAAAACE I like space do you like space?

[Kadzar]

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You people are all being very silly. Obviously the only logical name for such an organization is the Space Pony Express. Or Robot Space Pony Express if they use drones.

[10ebbor10]

Needs more spice.

This. FTL travel can kill you without the stuff.

Hehe... speaking of which, the whole reason for the spice was to give Navigators the prescient vision needed to know the one trajectory that wouldn't warp your ship into any solid matter. When you're traveling at near-relativistic speeds, a pebble or cloud of dust will collide with you and generate enough heat and pressure to trigger explosions of plasma and nuclear fusion. And that's during the fraction of an instant that they completely slice through the ship, you, and everything else you're carrying.

However... since these are only moving on a 4D/Time Axis, and not in 3D Space, I wonder if this bubble of local space/time will repel other matter from outside. And if so, that has a whole 'nother set of awesome applications in things like force-fields, etc.

It won't repell it. It will rapidly compress it (turning it into plasma), then cool it down when it leaves on the other side. The fun fact is that neither the ship, nor the particle are moving at relativistic speed inside the bubble (Unless the particle collided at relativistic speeds). So yeah, it'd be just as dangerous as a vapourized micrometeroid.

Edit: For FTl communications, how about Quantum entanglement?

[Virex]

Can't transfer classical information that way, sorry. Any attempt at modifying the system in a way that is measurable as a definite 'bit' on the other side will break the entanglement, since the particles have to be in thermodynamic equilibrium.

[Scelly9]

PTW, because FTL!

[werty892]

Need more space spice socks !!xXPig-Tail Fiber SockXx!!