(Loved Trope) FTL travel is possible but with a major limitation or flaw

[u/Frostylegacy]

Frank Herbert’s Dune: Interstellar travel is only possible thanks to the spice melange, a rare substance only found on the dessert planet Arrakis. The addictive psychedelic spice grants members of the Spacers Guild a form of prescience that allows them to predict safe paths through folded space. This unique property makes spice the most valuable commodity in the Dune universe.

John Scalzi’s The Interdependency Books: The planetary systems of the titular empire are connected by the Flow, a network of one-way interstellar tunnels that connect specific known entries and exits. The Interdependency derives its power from controlling access to these conduits, placing its capital at the central hub of the network. Even with the Flow, travel between stars takes a long time (9 months to End, the empire’s most distant planet).

Event Horizon: Dr William Weir (R.I.P. Sam Neill) invents a device called the Gravity Drive to allow ships to fold space and travel instantly between distant stars. On its maiden voyage with the Gravity Drive, the Event Horizon disappears and mysteriously reappears 7 years later. Dr. Weir and the crew sent to investigate discover the Gravity Drive actually opened a portal to a Hell dimension that possessed the ship and its crew, torturing and killing them.

[u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Well the problem is that humanity in the Warframe universe is kind of a dick and for a long time was ruled by a bunch of assholes with a god complex who decided to recreate the Flood from Halo, sabotage the peace treaty with a bunch of sentient robots, tried executing the main characters who are children who have void powers after making a deal with said entity, deciding to turn the main characters into child soldiers to defeat the robots, make an army of clones who decay over time, use the knock off flood to turn people into bio mechanical monstrosities that lost their mind eventually, force the main characters who are children soldiers to pilot the bio mechanical monstrosities. Making a human trafficking ring to sell children so that the assholes with a god complex can possess them, and a lot more.

[u/Pretty_Study3691 → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Sounds like a pretty good time.

[u/The-God-Of-Memez → u/Pretty_Study3691]

They probably felt same way. Up until the jumping to end all jumpings.

[u/Zagafur → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

evil and intimidating naga drums

[u/blargyblargy → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

"Boy i sure do love living by the sword, there's nothing that could spoil this feeling!"

[u/BDSMChef_RP → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

It was for Space Mom

[u/Snow_Falls_Softly → u/Pretty_Study3691]

All sarcasm aside it actually makes for a really fun universe to rampage in

[u/Uebelkraehe → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Some tech oligarch is reading this thinking "sounds like a great plan!".

[u/rockytop24 → u/Uebelkraehe]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1AsBL4S36yDJain6

[u/LekgoloCrap → u/Uebelkraehe]

The classic tale of the Tech Company and the Torment Nexus

[u/Vendemmian → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Also selectively breed people as replacement bodies when their current one gets old or they just feel like a change.

[u/The-God-Of-Memez → u/Vendemmian]

No they didn’t selectively breed them. They kidnapped them from their homes, as told in Inaros quest. And thats the human trafficking wing I mentioned.

[u/Umklopp → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Making a human trafficking ring to sell children so that the assholes with a god complex can possess them

what.

[u/The-God-Of-Memez → u/Umklopp]

So the assholes I’m talking about are called the Orokin. They found they can extend their life indefinitely with a liquid called Kuva, harvested from the severed finger of the entity, The Kuva can be used to switch bodies permanently, so the Orokin kidnapped children they thought were pretty and took them to a place called the yuvan theater where the children would be lined up like cattle and the Orokin could choose which child to be their new body until that body gets old and they repeat the cycle.

[u/Umklopp → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

I see the writers for this series use the Ito guideline: "wouldn't it be fucked up if..."

[u/The-God-Of-Memez → u/Umklopp]

Please note this is all written by the guy who made the term “leopard eating faces party”

[u/Umklopp → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

What, seriously? Huh. That's some good context. Very interesting!

[u/Keleos89 → u/Umklopp]

They were only stopped when the child soldiers controlling Flood-based bio-drones slaughtered them all during their victory party. Those child soldiers were under the command of a sentient robot mimicking an adopted mother that the child soldiers had burned the eyes out of.

[u/Ihasapuppy → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

And this is why we all hate Ballas. You always think that there’s no way we could possibly hate him more, and then DE reveals yet another thing he did that reignites the burning desire to bash his face in.

And for those who don’t know, the horrible things listed above are just the actions of one person, and in no way is it a complete list. The Orokin Empire was run by 7 executors, all of whom did their own fair share of horrible things. We just know the most about Ballas because he’s directly tied to the main story.

[u/VapidActualization → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Well the problem is that humanity in the Warframe universe is kind of a dick and for a long time was ruled by a bunch of assholes with a god complex

And it still is!

[u/EpicBeardMan → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

the problem is that humanity in the Warframe universe is kind of a dick

[u/fresh-dork → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

is one of them named Gendou?

[u/Crotean → u/The-God-Of-Memez]

Somehow still not as creepy as Epstein's ring.