Idea!

[izixs]

So I had an idea for a sci-fi setting of sorts. Remember those movies and games like Event Horizon where we figure out FTL but the down side is that it sends you through some sort of hell dimension first where you're likely to go insane and mutilate yourself? Well! Take that idea, and fast forward a few centuries. After a few horrible horrible

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[ghodamus]

There's a science fiction series you should read called "The Chronicles of Solace" by Roger MacBride Allen. Three books; The Depths of Time, The Ocean of years, and The Shores of TomorrowPart of the premise of these novels is that, even in the year 5200, they still haven't figure out how to do faster-than-light travel. Instead, what they've found is a method for manipulating artificially-induced singularities to produce temporal wormholes

[izixs]

I've actually read part of one of those books there. Alas I didn't get very far into it. Just past the part where 'oh crap, someone snuck back in time with a super fast ship' or something like that.

I'm not really looking to play with to much time travel craziness in this story idea. There might be some other spaces that get traveled to that take much longer to get out of than would appear to out side observers, but for the most part the fun is in the mind bending, infections, or hostile nature of the other spaces that can be entered. Sort of a monster of the week in some ways but usually nothing really horrible happens. Maybe some of the paint on the side of the ship gets scraped off or Lt. Binky gets a weird infection that yield strange larva coming out of his fingers while everyone else is fine. But on rare occasions things can go horribly wrong due to the frequency of this group's travels.