Laurasia wrote:Dreadful Sagittarius wrote:
Something like an exploration fleet would not be out of the question. The only problem is you'd have to install a drawback so they can't draw on limitless reinforcements from Homegalaxy. I personally would go for 'insanely long travel time', say entire decades, forcing your crews to go into stasis on the way here. That also gives you an interesting angle in initial RP's. Let's say a lot of crew have died in stasis due to accidents; what are you going to do to cope with the shortfall? That adds drama, and that makes a story.
But how could such a long travel time work? Considering that the Laurasian Empire possesses the hyperdrive, which allows one to go across a galaxy of about 120,000 light years in a little under seven or eight hours, how could I make it that it takes the ships decades to cross the inter-galactic void. The very fact of there being a galactic Empire suggests there would have to be advanced interstellar propulsion territory. The actual calendar era system in my galaxy is based around the invention of the hyperdrive: just like how yours is based around the "Arrival Event" when A12-7ED was colonized by the Ship Gaia (O AE), mines is based around the invention of the hyperdrive by the ancient Laurasian Stellar Republic (1 BH-AH 1, there is no year zero). The year 1797 means 1797 years since the invention of the hyperdrive. And the Laurasians were in space with the warp drive, hyperspace cannons, and dimensional drives four centuries before that. Considering also that numerous species in my galaxy, such as the Huntites, Robertians, Kimanians, Rokai, and Nagai, were venturing in space as far as back as five to ten thousand years before the Laurasians even entered space, and that before that, there were the ancient Metasian, Cree, Shapeshifter, Pauline Empires, each of which was in space for hundreds or even thousands of years....My basic point is that I would see difficulty in how I could develop such a story. I do want to impose reasonable limits so that the expeditionary fleet is limited in how much support it can get from the Empire, hundreds of thousands or millions of light years away from the Milky Way Galaxy but that its still enough of a threat to alarm some of the Milky Way powers.
...As you can tell galactic spanning nations tend to be troublesome.
However the only thing I can suggest if a large fleet had some freak accident were all the hyperdrives (and forms of FTL Communication) malfunctioned, forcing the crew into stasis (and unable to send a quick message back to the homegalaxy).
