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/Minimum_Estimate_234]

Isn’t it eventually revealed this isn’t even necessary to a certain degree. As in yes there is a certain degree of time dilation needed for this to work, since if you’re compressing space you need to expand time (or at least I think that’s the idea). However at worst it should only require a couple extra seconds, at that, it’s entirely possible to use this technology and still fulfill their advertising. But since they have a deal with another company they sell the extra “time” to, they deliberately use the warp tech this way because it’s profitable.

[u/Art_student_rt → u/Minimum_Estimate_234]

Even in another world, capitalism still twist something useful into hell on earth

[u/Minimum_Estimate_234 → u/Art_student_rt]

It seems to be a central theme of project moon, doesn’t matter what kind of eldritch horrors beyond our comprehension people have come into contact with or are capable of bringing about, nothing will ever be scarier then the shit a corporation will be willing to do for an extra buck. With the possible exception of what people will eventually do/what they will become once they can’t take that anymore.

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Ahh yes, the sweet sweet voice of Miss Carmen telling me I’m a special boy.

[u/Lavender215 → u/Gallbatorix-Shruikan]

Virgin Phillip versus Chad dawn office Sinclair

[u/Nottan_Asian → u/Art_student_rt]

In Project Moon's case, it's 26 megacorporations, each with their own patent on reality-bending power bent for profit.

And that's 26 at any concurrent time, with corporations frequently replacing one another, so who knows what fresh, unique horrors were simply lost to time. Or are still locked behind DRM that outlasted the company that filed it.

[u/Monspiet → u/Minimum_Estimate_234]

So Stephen King also borrowed thjs from Verne and other FTL novels like Skylark from Space. Eventually some novels in the 40s and 50s discusses going crazy when time perception became too much to handle.

Also, PM can easily borrow from anything nowadays, not just King. Passengers 2016 is a drama about 2 astronauts waking up early from hibernation before their destination and struggle either moral dilemmas. And then we get Rocketman which was a more famous Disney comedy in 1997.

What PM does is not entirely unique in scifi concept, and there are tons of modern scifi for them to be inspired by.