FTL

FTL: Faster Than Light

• Opposite of NAFAL: Not as Fast as Light = STL: Slower Than Light
• This equals starfaring (interstellar FTL travel)
• Hyperluminal
• The standard FTL-Drive in use throughout Charted Space is the Jump drive.

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Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Speed of Travel
  • Astronomical Unit (AU)
  • FTL
  • Light Speed (c)
  • Light-week (lw)
  • Light-year (ly)
  • NAFAL (STL)
  • Parsec (pc)

Description (Specifications)

FTL is a term describing faster than light space travel. It is a necessary precondition to interstellar development. Only extremely long-lived sophont species can circumvent this axiom through the use of sleeper or generation ships and they still have the shortcoming of being strategically crippled when facing another hostile species with FTL warships.

Alternate Nomenclature

• Hyperluminal
• Superluminal

History & Background (Dossier)

In the current climate of Charted Space, the Vilani people had an Inordinate advantage in that their first major suprapolity developed the FTL Jump Drive long before other sophonts.

• Key technology for interstellar colonization and commerce
• Much faster than relativistic travel
• Reference Vilani Starjumpers

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