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What’s better than hyperdrive for intergalactic travel?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:17 pm    Post subject: What’s better than hyperdrive for intergalactic travel? Reply with quote

I’m trying to write a Star Wars story about someone who figures out a way to travel FTL between galaxies. Hyperspace doesn’t work in the Intergalactic Void, and there is a hyperspace disturbance at the edge of the galaxy blocking travel anyway. I was trying to think of an alternative method of traveling the distance. This drive I envision could ONLY be used in the intergalactic void (so it can’t replace hyperdrive). It allows travel through the void very quickly but NOT instantaneously and there is a weird quantum glitch where the inhabitants of the ship need to wait 2 hours before piercing the veil of another galaxy or weird quantum things could happen to their ship.

Anyway I originally thought of a superfluid vacuum drive but I did a lot of research and it’s unlikely the universe is a superfluid. I know Star Wars science is soft as a marshmallow but I want some fake science that sounds realistic. Can anyone help me?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should design a ship powered by bad news, since nothing travels faster than bad news. Of course, nobody will be particularly happy to see you when you get there.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The closest I can think of is what the Aing-Tii use to have their ships travel from place to place. But at the same time, they might be using the Force power fold space to do that. Can they use that to travel to another galaxy? Personally, possible, but on the border between practical and impractical.

The Yuuzhan Vong were able to move their entire civilization, and their worldships and other crafts moved about using gravitic drives. I think their drives warped gravity to travel through hyperspace, and used the gravitic signatures of planets to lock onto a specific planet as their destination. Apparently, to their gravitic sensors, each planet had a unique signature, just as with the exception of identical siblings, people have unique DNA.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Purrgils. They travel FTL without hyperdrives. Purrgils are the key to life, the universe, and everything.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whill wrote:
Purrgils. They travel FTL without hyperdrives. Purrgils are the key to life, the universe, and everything.

Or more specifically, the gastric emissions of Purrgils.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stealing a bit from Mass Effect and Schlock Mercenary, go with a specially made hypergate or Infinity Gate, designed just for travel between the two points.

So, you find this gate, and it sends you to the next galaxy over, with whatever time dilation effect you want. Or, maybe shoots you there, and the return gate is broken. Depends on what you want.
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