Faster Than Light (FTL)

FTL refers to Faster Than Light, or Faster Than Light travel. It is the breakthrough which allowed humanity to effectively get from the Sol system out into the Universe at large. It is actually inachievable, with Einstein still being technically correct about objects not being able to accelerate to (and past) the speed of light itself. However, upon achieving a notable fraction of lightspeed over the course of a long period of acceleration, all of the energy stored up by the ship can be channeled to a skip-drive which 'technically' allows for a shipt o move at FTL speeds. A skip drive does not actually manage to simply move the ship at a speed exceeding that of light, but manages to touch an underpinning universe and quite simply transport the ship in its entirety between the universes and to a new location.