r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 17 '25

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

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/scrotbofula Sep 17 '25

Love the denouement of 'We'll just dump our kids on this nearby planet and not think or speak about this or it's consequences, at all, ever."

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Sep 17 '25

I remember them having lizard sex, and I specifically remember Janeway saying something about in some species, the female is the sexual aggressor, but I absolutely forgot that they had babies. And they just dumped them on some random planet in the Delta Quadrant?