[Space] seeking advice for building a campaign

[vicky_molokh]

The choice of the best superluminal drive was always interesting for me. Personally, I believe some sort of hyperspace, like in Babylon-5 and Star Control II (but not flat!) would be best, though there are more details to that.

Also note that if you'ŕe using the folding space paradigm, you'll get the following results:

• Ships almost never meet each other in the 'folded' space of travel, other than if they're going between the same points. Not good for pirates.
• Travel time will be reduced non-linearly. I'm not able to provide an exact formula, but you should think of it like t=k×(s^¾)/v or somesuch, with k being an arbitrary coeffitient, v being the 'velocity' in folded space (which may or may not be constant, depending on what superscience is behind the drive), and s being truespace distance.

I probably asked more questions than I answered.

Also, check out this and this thread.