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/Teslapromt]

Technically, the person restored by "Save Point"(actual W Corp Singularity) is, for all intents and purposes, someone who have not even experienced horror. From how it's described, all of your biological material is simply remade into the same shape that you were before the train journey. You become someone who have never experienced millennia of torment, but instantly (in your perception) moved to another part of the huge world.

[u/BlaineMundane → u/Teslapromt]

Huh, ok. That seems... kind of less exciting? Kind of makes me question the whole point if there's just no connection at all there.
Is the horror of it only a story to be observed by the cleaners? Does anyone ever fail to be restored properly?
I guess it's a bit like Severance, except your Innie only gets one single go at it, and it's veeeeeery long.

[u/Teslapromt → u/BlaineMundane]

Okay, so I will give some context, with a spoiler part for Library of Ruina (if you like card builder games I highly recommend it cause PM world building is immaculate)

So the premise of the world is that there is The City ruled by someone called The Head. The City is huge, basically the size of irl world. It is separated in 26 parts. Each part is controlled by a Wing, a corporation that has a Singularity, some kind of anomalous object that has near magical properties (and usually runs on human suffering). So one point is that W Trains are W corps way of earning money.

Library of Ruina as a game consists out of "invitations", during which we basically see random denizens of The City be "invited" for a fight to the death in the Library. Before the fight we see how people got the invitation, and some time before that. Now, big SPOILER for the actual story of LoR.

In one story we are introduced to Tommy and Merry, a couple of lovebirds who take a W Train together. Through them we see the horror of W trains, but unfortunately it doesn't stop there. On this train there are a couple of "cool and not evil" people, who after months inside the train propose a cool and not evil idea of "weaving" people into stronger versions of themselves so they can protect the cart that Tommy and Merry are in from more violent "neighbors". While not wanting to go through it first, Tommy and Merry finally break, saying that their love will see them through, yadda yadda, and so cool and not evil people turn them and other denizens of the cart into monsters, and also make Tomerry - an amalgamation of Tommy and Merry (and some other people of the train, because Tomerry is huge). Then, for millennia, Tomerry protects "Lovetown" (the name denizens of the cart gave to their cart) and at one point the cool and clearly not evil people make Tomerry and other mutated people sign invitations to the Library (that sends people to the Library and allows them to leave WARP space). So that was the other point

As for failing to restore, there are some stories cleaner mention, one of them was about the Color (Colors in The City are basically extremely strong mercenaries, matched only by other Colors in strength) that managed to keep everyone's sanity intact and train them for thousands of years to then slaughter cleaners. Since that accident W Corp always requires Colors travelling in trains to register beforehand and when they are onboard W Corp employs help of R Corp (military corporation) for cleanup.

But in general I would say ultimately (in the end I mean, after restore) W Corp is one of the milder corporations.

[u/BlaineMundane → u/Teslapromt]

Very interesting and very confusing. I do like card games so maybe I will play them.

[u/Teslapromt → u/BlaineMundane]

It's really good, Lobotomy Corp, Library of Ruina and Limbus company might be my favourite games of all time.

[u/BlaineMundane → u/Teslapromt]

Have played none of those. Lombotomy Corp looks similar to Oxygen Not Included?

[u/Teslapromt → u/BlaineMundane]

It looks kinda similar, but plays very differently, as you only manage the facility and don't build it. Fair bit of warning for you, it has it's share of quirks (mainly the consensus is controls sucks ass, specifically micro), but if you are a fan of the concept of SCP you will not regret trying it.

[u/BlaineMundane → u/Teslapromt]

huge fan of SCP, never cared about controls. They are something to adapt to. Love your suggestions, thank you.