Quote:Hm... I'm a little leery of letting Midnight break the 500c wall, though with enough song-and-dance I could be persuaded.
What I was kinda thinking about is: What if she's going so fast in FTL that you get relativistic affects despite Handwavium's tinkering?
Anyway, two thoughts on dilation effect:
1) Flipping relativity around suggests that once over the light barrier you start to see time *expansion* instead of compression. A week long trip in FTL feels like a month or more for the crew, something like that.
2) A light engine. This one transcends "quirk" and aims somewhere around "tragic flaw," in that it works at *exactly* the speed of light. Experienced travel time is zero, though the actual travel time is however long it takes light to reach the target. Now imagine that Ben thinks he's discovered the Limit Break and tries to prove it by travelling to Starbase 2...---
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