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In scifi stories there tends to be about four different types of ftl drives
Star Trek's warp drive where the starship generates a warp bubble around the ship and it moves along at speeds up to warp 9.9 or so. They spend a lot of their time at warp something.
Babylon 5 where they have stargates and hyperspace unless you have a big honkin ship that can generate it's own stargate. Here it's uncertain how much time was spent in hyperspace when getting from one planet to another.
Battlestar Galactica where they have a ftl generator that after spooling up the ship makes a jump to a specific set of coordinates where they must wait until it spools up again. Almost no time elapses during the jump
Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis where they have a stargate at each end and virtually no time is spent in the connecting wormhole. I'm not sure how stargate universe fits into this.
There are probably more variations but at four in the morning I can't think of any except the means of travel in Dune where stoned worms think you to your destination.
So which do you favor as the most plausible or what other method do you favor?
Star Trek's warp drive where the starship generates a warp bubble around the ship and it moves along at speeds up to warp 9.9 or so. They spend a lot of their time at warp something.
Babylon 5 where they have stargates and hyperspace unless you have a big honkin ship that can generate it's own stargate. Here it's uncertain how much time was spent in hyperspace when getting from one planet to another.
Battlestar Galactica where they have a ftl generator that after spooling up the ship makes a jump to a specific set of coordinates where they must wait until it spools up again. Almost no time elapses during the jump
Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis where they have a stargate at each end and virtually no time is spent in the connecting wormhole. I'm not sure how stargate universe fits into this.
There are probably more variations but at four in the morning I can't think of any except the means of travel in Dune where stoned worms think you to your destination.
So which do you favor as the most plausible or what other method do you favor?