>>5644
So I'm entirely too lazy and unmotivated to partake in your little business, but I'm also pretty bored at the moment. A quick skim of your site tells me you've decided that you want sex to play a role in your universe's FTL travel, but you haven't really fleshed it out beyond that. I'm going to give you a short prompt that might help in this regard.
Recently there's been a budding technology appearing in the news that's been lovingly dubbed the "EM Drive". The novel thing about this creation is that it bypasses the need for physical fuel and, supposedly, is capable of turning current into propulsion in vacuum. Whether this claim can be supported in this case or not is irrelevant, since there are fuzzy areas of physics that makes it somewhat plausible. The leading theory being that the microwaves are being forced into such complex 'shapes' that they're interacting - and getting in the way of - whatever's happening at or below the Planck length. In doing so, as the waves are pushed out of the way, they create a sort of anomalous quantum vibration that produces, among other things, thrust.
In hard science fiction, this technology would be a stepping stone to something called a Logic Drive, which attacks the physical state of a given space in such a way that it makes 'undefined' phase changes possible for a short time by way of this same sub-Planck length environment. When this possibility is revoked and the selected area of space returns to 'normal' rules, there is a logical collapse (something that cannot happen in this context is happening in this context) where the surrounding space distorts until the paradox is no longer paradoxical. What this means is that the inclinations we've observed enough to label them as "laws" can be superseded temporarily (including both general and special relativity) by artificially creating a reason for them to do so – using logic (in a highly mathematically complicated sense) to drive change.
Now this is obviously not something you really want to include in your game in its present form, since it's needlessly technical (though I would argue more philosophical than anything, given the lack of equations), and reliant upon a lot of what some might call "hare-brained" theory, but I wanted you to understand how I came to this next part, which will probably be a little more useful to you.
Before the industrial revolution and the information age, it was common belief that a person's thoughts could have tangible impact upon the direction of reality. That something so beautiful and complex and unknowable as the individual simply must have more power than the flickering images inside our heads. However, as time marched on and mankind delved deeper into the sciences and the human psyche, these ideas waned. Thoughts were just chemicals flitting back and forth within the confines of our calcified cages. There was no magic in the mind.
"Of course the rain dance works!" they'd mock, "You just have to keep dancing until it rains!"
But, as fate would have it, our species would get yet another lesson in the taste of crow. While trying to nail down the reason for sleep, a group of scientists unexpectedly discovered something miraculous: with the right prompting, a person's thoughts could travel anywhere. In forcing their subjects to better remember dreams that they had not concocted (non-lucid), they discovered that they were not always imaginative fabrications, but instead, projections of our selves into other instances of reality, completely unhooked from the chains of time and space. Patients would awake with information completely impossible for them to have obtained, from ancient times to distant and future civilizations. Somehow, that little sac of salty fluid was able to do the inconceivable. They called this discovery the Dream Walk.
Thousands of technologies and products were created based on and because of this, including the REM Drive.
See, it's impossible to force someone to dream of something naturally while still having it be about a place or time in particular, and more than that, the dreaming self has no hard limits like mass, volume, or position along the time axis. However, it is possible to plug a person into a device specifically crafted for siphoning the effects of their Dream Walk and, in combination with a Logic Drive (which is too complex to operate even with today's computational power), travel essentially anywhere instantaneously.
I can expand further on any of this if you want, but don't panic if I'm slow to reply. I'm pretty lazy, and I don't come here very often on top of that.