![]() Regardless of the mechanism, at the same instant, thousands of cultures across the Plane received the same information: blueprints for a new type of starships drive -one capable of cheaply and efficiently shortening the distance between stars.Ī new god revealed itself, claiming to have granted the knowledge as a blessing to its new mortal children. While other drives had been theorized-drives that could fold space, create stable wormholes, or otherwise bend the rules of physics. ![]() From Helldrives to Shadow engines to the prayer-fueled cores of Cathedralships, most of these technologies not only took the ship through other planes but also operated with direct divine assistance, and thus always came with a hefty price. While a few starships had drives capable of circumventing this obstacle, all relied on extremely expensive magical technology, often controlled by churches or other organizations. Yet even in this new age of space flight, voyages beyond the solar system remained rare traveling to even the nearest star at conventional speeds would take generations. Yet for others, the airless void of space was just another sea to be crossed, which they did in a variety of craft, from magical to mechanical and from biological to divine.Īs technology improved, travel time between worlds dropped from months and years to days, and the optimal routes between planets became crowded with spacecraft. For some, this was purely magical: powerful spells or artifacts, or quick jaunts through other planes of existence allowed travelers access to their intended world. No one knows which world first achieved spaceflight, but by the beginning of the Modern era, nearly every world had some form of interplanetary travel.
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