Slipstream

Slipstream, also known as Streaming, Riding the rails, and FTL, is the only known way of traveling faster than light in the Andromeda Universe. Every race in the known worlds depends upon it for their economies and way of life in every social and political aspect. It was originally discovered approximately 10,000 years before the current era by a Vedran scientist.

A Gravity Field Generator drastically reduces the mass of the ship and then a slipstream drive opens a slip-point which the ship enters. The ship then catches onto the strings by means of slipstream runners. Once hooked onto the strings the pilot then navigates the series of slipstream "strings" until they reach the desired slip-point where they exit the slipstream. Since its discovery by the Vedrans, the slipstream has connected the galaxies together.

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Slipstream