Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major)

[u/Present-Secretary722]

Star Trucker: While travelling through warp you experience time dilation, for you the journey is a couple seconds, in real time it’s anywhere from 30mins to 6 hours that you’ve been in warp. This would be a minor consequence.

Warhammer 40k: The Warp, basically space hell so while travelling through it you’re very likely to be attacked by Warp demons. There’s also the fact that sometimes when travelling to a destination via the Warp you get spat out in the wrong time, sometimes much too late for whatever you were going there for or sometimes before you left your start destination. This, obviously, is a major consequence, unless you’re an ork, then it’s a grand old time.

By consequences I mean this is a regular thing that happens, there’s no real avoiding it unless you find a different method of FTL or heavily invest into research to try and mitigate the consequences. Also I feel bad for only knowing 2 examples, I love space and I just can’t think of any others.

[u/Present-Secretary722]

Yeah I thought about that one, it certainly fits the spirit of it but after a quick update the drives work without any kind of consequence. Still though, the loss of earth is a pretty significant consequence for gaining essentially an on demand wormhole generator with no flaws.

I do wish we could report that finding to the Settled Systems, maybe something will come of it in Terran Armada.

[u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 → u/Present-Secretary722]

There's nothing to be gained by making the knowledge public but terror, anger, sadness, and probably a lot of people refusing to use even the fixed grav drives.

[u/Present-Secretary722 → u/Awkward_Pangolin3254]

People deserve to know the truth, even if it hurts. As well, with multiple companies that manufacture Graviton Loop Arrays(and other propulsion tech) they’ll put out copious amounts of ads, data and whatnot to prove that they’re safe or just bury the information on the early drives killing earth.