#FTL TRAVEL PLUS#

The FTL power just automatically incorporates all of that into it, but Megascale Movement doesn't. because you travel to another location, but also go back in time (due to Relativity) so you arrive there close to the time when you left, rather then decades or centuries later. This would allow for different types of Faster-Then-Light travel options in a game based on the technology or magic of the setting.īecause in game terms, FTL travel is actually a form of ExtraDimensional Movement/Teleportation with Time Travel. I just made that explanation up, but it would justify having the FTL power in the rules, as opposed to Megascale Movement. But with the FTL power Relativity problems are ignored as part of the power. It is absolutely nowhere mentioned in the FTL write up, but maybe there is a hidden 'unwriten' benefit to FTL in that is also ignores the problems of Relativity but Megascale Flight doesn't.įor example, going faster then light time would pass rapidly on Earth (and everywhere else in the universe) but not for the character, so if you use Megascale Flight to go faster then light speed decades could pass on Earth but it would only be a few minutes or hours for the character. Again: We the players of Hero are also game designers, with all that entails.

And right off the bat, how you construct something in your game is you making effectively am mechanic. I never actualyl realised it until watching extra credits, but there apparently is something as 'Meaning in Mechanics'. Valid reasons why someone might prefer it.

#FTL TRAVEL PLUS#

Plus it doesn't consume Endurance as the default. Note that the description of FTL Travel does include a clear quantified scale of speed per Character Point cost, which makes it simpler to use than calculating how much MegaScale of X amount of base distance in Flight or Teleport, at what Speed, would result in a comparable rate of travel. Maybe one construct just 'feels' more like the Special Effect of what the player is going for. Each approach may have nearly the same effect, but the mechanics and 'flavor' of the construct differ somewhat and those differences may lead a player or GM to prefer one over the other. It's actually pretty common in official Hero to have more than one way to achieve a particular result, like the difference between Normal and Killing Damage attacks or building martial arts training as extra Limited Strength or CSL, rather than buying Martial Arts Maneuvers. Professor Hossenfelder goes on to say that to move faster than light, the spacecraft itself would require negative energy densities, and acceleration needs energy and momentum - although the paper does not explain how this could be managed, it assumes that it is possible because it fits with the scientific theory.I've seen published Hero System write-ups for faster-than-light vessels using MegaScale Flight, and MegaScale Teleport, as well as FTL Travel. “You cannot break the speed of light barrier for the passengers themselves relative to spacetime, so instead you keep them moving normally in the bubble you move the bubble itself superluminally”, Professor and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Sabine Hossenfelder, explains. The inside of the bubble would contain a passenger area, where the passage of time could operate differently from that outside the craft. The new paper, as Popular Mechanics reports, makes a key distinction between Alcubierre’s notions and its own: rather than using “negative energy”, a substance which does not exist in the universe, bubbles of spacetime could be used to make the drive possible. Faster-than-light travel would usually require an infinite amount of energy, but that restriction only applies to objects in spacetime rather than spacetime itself - which is how the universe could expand faster than the speed of light after the Big Bang.

In theory, a warp drive would be able to work within the boundaries of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

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