Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26210095-20170531024032

Faster-then-Light travel is absolutely nessesary for the Hive Collective's survival. How else would the thousands upon millions of Hives, ships, armies, and resources move through space, traversing the vast distances of the Void? The Collective uses several forms of hyperluminal travel. The first is known as the Webway, which is a collection of gates throughout Hive Collective space. They connect the various worlds through Webgates, which are large megastructures, great feats of engineering. The Hive Collective has built all of these throughout their worlds to connect the Hives. These take much energy and resources to maintain, but they are worth it, for transportation is instantaneous, linking two gates, be they thousands of light-years distant, through a wormhole. This has allowed the Collective to establish a firm grip on what is known as 'Xarai Space'. These require two Webgates to travel between, linking all worlds of the Hive Collective together as one.

The second method of FTL is used in worlds not connected by the Webway, especially in the Milky Way where their presence is not tolerated. They use a form of travel which warps spacetime itself by contracting spacetime in front of the ship and expanding space behind it. This requires exotic matter with negative mass, which is extracted and refined from the interstellar debris that is prevalent in Xarai Space.  