Space Travel

Space Travel is an essential part of galactic culture. Races from all over the universe have developed means of interstellar travel, allowing for trade and cultural exchange to flourish.

Webway Gates: Created by the ancient race called Watchers, these gates are permanent portals that dip into hyperspace to connect to one another. Access to these gates is limited to the Watchers, and they do not casually allow others to use them. Other races have, however, built crude imitations on the backbone of their larger network.

Hyperspace Drive: The most common means of interstellar travel is to dip in and out of hyperspace. This is fairly reliable and safe, but not terribly fast. Hyperspace can be navigated with means not dissimilar to regular space. A ship passing in hyperspace emits a distinctive 'bow wave' of gravimetric particles and interacts with radiation in realspace, leaving a streaking trail of energy in its wake. Hyperspace travel can be hazardous if the vessel brushes too near a major gravity event, such as a star. Most hyperspace lanes are well documented and heavily monitored by law enforcement.

Blink Drives: Blink drives are huge machines that use massive gravitational emissions to 'pinch' spacetime. Blink drives are astoundingly swift, but the least miscalculation can throw a ship thousands or millions of light-years off-course unless locked onto another blink drive. These machines are necessarily massive, on scale with small moons and planeloads to accommodate their massive energy requirements. They are also located deep in space to prevent damaging spacetime around their home planet.

Boom Tubes: Boom Tubes only function on worlds connected to the Demiurge.

Wormhole Drive: Wormholes Drives are also known as Hyperspace Gates. These are relatively popular with outlaws and explorers. Wormholes connect two points in space via a closed Einstein-Rosenbridge, creating shortcuts that can be traversed relatively quickly. However, much like boom tubes, Wormhole Drives can become very unpredictable if spacetime is damaged by over-use.

FTL Velocity: Literally the worst way to travel FTL. Relativity is a bitch.