Space Exploration Worldbuilding

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Tiger

I'm also interested in alternatives to wormholes. Jump gates are interesting but can make it too easy to bring infrastructure and supplies, and I want the isolated, slow aspect of space travel to be key.

RogerBW's Wives and Sweethearts setting was created so as to behave like long-distance sea travel on Earth. That's done with jump points, which appear to be natural.