D6x6 Fanciful Forms of Faster-Than-Light Travel

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D6	This form of faster-than-light travel
1	shunts vessels between this universe and an alternate, bizarre one where distances are much shorter.
2	opens a stable wormhole between two points in space.
3	can only transfer information, and not matter as such.
4	warps the laws of physics around a vessel, effectively increasing the speed of light for it.
5	attaches a vessel like a remora to the bodies of higher-dimensional entities capable of moving in ways that defy the expectations of our lower-dimensional science.
6	instantly teleports a vessel to its destination.

D6	This form of faster-than-light travel is dependent on
1	enormous, fantastically-expensive relay structures.
2	the worship and appeasement of beings outside the normal flow of time, who will annihilate any egregious violations of causality.
3	extensively-trained operators dosed up on rare, difficult to synthesize nootropics.
4	correctly measuring and waiting for certain cosmic alignments which open the way for it.
5	the discovery and charting of pre-existing "corridors" - a risky business.
6	bespoke engines that have to be custom-made to exacting specifications for each and every vessel.

D6	A side-effect of this form of faster-than-light travel is
1	that conscious minds and sufficiently-advanced active computer systems exposed to it experience it as narcotic & highly addictive.
2	that its use weakens the membrane of reality, risking anomalous entities slipping through.
3	that it disables vessels that use it for a while after arriving at their destination, leaving them vulnerable.
4	that vessels using it (and the people on those vessels) subjectively experience as many years in transit as lightyears they traveled - most people need to be kept in stasis during the journey, or they'll go mad from understimulation.
5	that it exposes vessels and people to deviant radiation that's neither particle nor wave, inducing inhuman mutations & mentalities.
6	that sometimes vessels and people using it end up where they're really not supposed to - fused together, in a parallel universe, showing up 1,000 years after they were supposed to arrive, etc.

D6	This form of faster-than-light travel was discovered
1	by an alien species, and then shared partially with humanity in an attempt to make us their client species.
2	disastrously, in an accident which destroyed Earth's moon.
3	simultaneously by a couple countries, in a time when global tensions were funneled into scientific and cultural competition.
4	in ancient alien ruins on Saturn's moon Titan.
5	under circumstances that have since become mythic - many polities and ideologies now claim credit for it.
6	accidentally, in an attempt to create a new form of computation after the gains from quantum computing plateaued.

D6	A limit of this form of faster-than-light travel
1	is its range - you have to make a number of smaller "hops" with it rather than one large "leap" to get just about anywhere.
2	is that its use is disrupted by gravity wells - in Earth's solar system you'd have to fly out to about the orbit of Pluto to use it.
3	is volume - vessels using it must be small, and ration space exactingly.
4	is that consecutive uses within a certain span of time cause damage to build up in vessels and people, often lethally.
5	is that its energy usage is very intensive - antimatter-matter reaction cores are often necessary.
6	is its imprecision - you can aim for the ballpark of your destination, but anything closer than that is up to luck.

D6	Besides traveling faster-than-light, the technology of this form of faster-than-light travel can be used for
1	weapons that bypass conventional defenses.
2	artificial gravity, and anti-gravity.
3	projecting forcefields.
4	manufacturing materials with exotic properties.
5	creating pocket dimensions, and spaces that are larger on the inside than the outside.
6	a process of ascension to a god-like (at least relative to baseline humans) state, though this is not easy by any means, and can quite quickly lead to fates worse than death.