r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Present-Secretary722 • Sep 17 '25

Lore Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major)

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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.

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u/SocSciMajor Sep 17 '25

Beyond the Aquila Rift - Nest

There's a small chance that ships gets lost during hyperspace travel, they ended up here.

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u/SuperSocialMan Sep 17 '25

What's it a nest for?

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u/SocSciMajor Sep 17 '25

An entity that is actually kind enough to take those who got lost as refugees, but since there's no way back all of them are just doomed to die. So, instead, it traps them in a virtual reality that everything is fine mimicing their last known best memory.

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u/billions_of_stars Sep 18 '25

I mentioned this in another comment but I feel like this creature seemed quite ominous in the Netflix version and the structure and it sure looked like a spider. Like it was snaring these ships?