FTL greatly complicates the Fermi Paradox. Without FTL you can make the case that large scale colonization of the galaxy is impossible or that interstellar travelers couldn’t care less for dry inner solar system worlds (though grabby aliens might have consumed Ceres or Pluto.)
With FTL you could have some situation like Guardians of the Galaxy unless our planet was deliberately cut off like the Urantia people or Free Zoners believe.
Gates are possible, though you are technically annihilating the original and transferring identity through entanglement. If not annihilated, two copies would exist.
The gate must have traveled to the destination first, and might require a gas giant (or slow crawl nebula) to obtain the base potentials for regenerating the traveler’s matter.
Sub light isn’t so bad, except that We ARE CUT OFF, we’re in the back woods of space. 35,000 lyrs from the core.
In the night sky we can only see stars 1,500 lyrs away.
Only ~50 are within 10 lyrs and none of those suitable for habitation.
Friends, let not our pursuit be to “go somewhere”; let it be to habitate comfortably no matter where we are (and perpetually “in between”.)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadWith FTL you could have some situation like Guardians of the Galaxy unless our planet was deliberately cut off like the Urantia people or Free Zoners believe.
The gate must have traveled to the destination first, and might require a gas giant (or slow crawl nebula) to obtain the base potentials for regenerating the traveler’s matter.
Sub light isn’t so bad, except that We ARE CUT OFF, we’re in the back woods of space. 35,000 lyrs from the core.
In the night sky we can only see stars 1,500 lyrs away.
Only ~50 are within 10 lyrs and none of those suitable for habitation.
Friends, let not our pursuit be to “go somewhere”; let it be to habitate comfortably no matter where we are (and perpetually “in between”.)