*ponders*
Could be the froth exerts subtle harmonic interfereances that keep a drive from ftl inside of it, for rider safety, so to speak. IOW, you cant ftl from inside a mag bubble like that, and the froth essentially forms one large bubble. Hence you have to get OUTSIDE the bubbles, and arriving the interferance from the foam is what drops you back into normal space. Were wave not involved, hitting the limit at speed might involve going splat, but 'wave dont DO splat... though I might imagine the first ship to attempt to penetrate at speed feel like it hits a wall as the ship decelerates quickly enough that even with any sort of inertial dampners/whatever, anything not tied down goes flying forward.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
Could be the froth exerts subtle harmonic interfereances that keep a drive from ftl inside of it, for rider safety, so to speak. IOW, you cant ftl from inside a mag bubble like that, and the froth essentially forms one large bubble. Hence you have to get OUTSIDE the bubbles, and arriving the interferance from the foam is what drops you back into normal space. Were wave not involved, hitting the limit at speed might involve going splat, but 'wave dont DO splat... though I might imagine the first ship to attempt to penetrate at speed feel like it hits a wall as the ship decelerates quickly enough that even with any sort of inertial dampners/whatever, anything not tied down goes flying forward.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children