Using 3e's Tech Levels, or adding more Tech Levels beyond 12.

[maximara]

Originally Posted by maximara

The problem there is the same argument can be used regarding FTL travel as the Alcubierre drive is not strictly impossible but requires some plausible but unverified exotic magic or manipulation of Dark Energy.

More over quantum entanglement ("Spooky Action at a Distance") allows FTL communications and doesn't strictly violate physical laws as we currently know them.

FTL is a real headache but it could be like light under Newtonian physics which didn't behave as that model of the universe said it should.

That was supposed to be "exotic matter" not "exotic magic" but the point is there are ways to allow FTL under our current understanding of physics — it just involves things that are possible but not confirmed or something we really don't understand.

I mean if Dark Energy is a form of Energy then where is it coming from as energy cannot be created or destroyed? How can the universe continue to expand if that continuing expansion takes energy?