Someone please do anything with hyperspace

[Sniblet]

Lore Impact: basically zero if you retcon this, worldshaking if you push it forward normally

Species: whoever bothers. Humans, probably?

Short description:

https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Einstein_Engines#Taipei_Engineering_Industrial

Remove the lie that no one has volunteered to follow up on the hyperdrive in all this time.

How will this be reflected on-station?:

Depends on how you use it. It can have comparable implications to the invention of FTL, or change nothing.

Is this addition redundant?: No

Do you understand that lore teams can change it?: that’s the point yeah

Long description:

It has been FIVE, sorry, FIFTEEN YEARS and NO ONE has volunteered nor been volunteered to explore an entire new dimensional anomaly that, if mastered, would shatter the Chainlink - and could have shattered NanoTrasen before the Chainlink was formed with years to spare.

Countless investor meetings have been had and Einstein Engines’ leadership has never reached a majority opinion that this technology should be pushed forward despite existing obstacles. They are not sending in IPCs or viax. They are not sending in dregs. When the first Space Race went down, states had more volunteers than they could find uses for. The Hyperspace Race is not happening due to a complete lack of volunteers, in this, a time with many times the number of living beings at hand to select from; in this, a time when any and every improvement on the warp drive could end NanoTrasen. If I’m this annoyed and I’m not even in the Auroraverse, how does Noelle feel right now?

TEI quit at the first turn, and NanoTrasen Incorporated and Hephaestus Industries and the Nralakk Federation and the Serene Republic of Elyra and the Technocracy of Galatea and the C’thur Hive and Lii’dra and the Golden Deep are united in not wanting to be so rude as to steal their yellowed notes, instead being content to wait and let some patents dry up, apparently.

“Conceptually instantaneous (whatever that means) galactic transit without the use of phoron fuel is not of interest to us at this time.” -Taipei Engineering Industrial Office of Corporate Communications

I don’t know how you can safely advance this without making upsetting waves in the setting, but I think it’d be cool if some faction somewhere had this ace in something that believably resembles active development, as opposed to being forever delayed by the most unbelievable excuse yet contrived by man. Maybe push it forward - maybe tell me that there’s a reasonable obstacle holding TEI back (like okay maybe they do want to go forward but you know maybe it’s hard) - maybe say hyperspace was discovered only this year instead of fifteen years ago. Failing any of that, fine, retcon the dimension. As it exists now, this is wholly unbelievable and I treat it as if it’s not there.

Edited February 7 by Sniblet

[kermit]

yeah, the hyperspace mention is being retconned by us lore masters (we had decided to do this before Christmas, but then forgot).

1. We already have Warp vs. Bluespace as part of the Phoron Scarcity, which is going to be further emphasised when the Phoron Scarcity rework is done. A whole new form of FTL travel will undermine this major theme of our setting today.

2. It no longer fills in any niche that we haven't already got: Einstein are already trying to improve on Warp to kick out Bluespace reliance; Warp is already the non-phoron alternative to Bluespace; the 'technicalities' of Hyperspace are covered by Bluespace which has changed since the proposal to add Hyperspace.

I'll leave this open for a bit if you've anything to add with those points in mind, but I don't see this not being retconned.

[Sniblet]

I’m happy to be of help as your virtual reminder buddy. If there was any other silliness you were meaning to retcon, remember to do that too. Beep boop.

It’s kind of a shame, but I get it. Warp alone can still be a big looming threat if we want it to be.