ClassicDrogn Wrote:We'd need the Word of Mal to de definitive, but I'm pretty sure that no matter what they call it or how it's dressed up Trekkie or Warsie or any other fandom's FTL is the same as the FTL everyone else gets from the 'wave. I know it canonically does not do multidimensional reindeer games like bags of holding or travel to other worlds.It is interesting that it doesn't do that. The Visitor and the Galactic Girls are canon, and they could do that. That suggests that either they had a "traveller from other worlds" exemption from the local limits of physics (or a Skuld reality hack), or the local physics allows it, but (for some reason) handwavium wont do 'dimensional'. Which, given how much it can and does do, is really interesting...
((I'm assuming here that 'magic' is something which runs above at least one layer of underlying physics, and that handwavium doesn't break the underlying laws of physics, it just exploits aspects of them not known to 21stC human science.))
Edit to add meta physics bit.
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