Ftl Downgrade

The downgrade is not a failure of engineering. It is a failure of patience. We tasted the lightning and went mad with the speed. Now, we are learning to walk again, crawling from star to star, our ships becoming wooden-hulled galleons on an ocean of black glass.

We currently live in the era of the —a sobering transition from the naive optimism of Star Trek to the gritty, claustrophobic realism of generation ships and laser sails. ftl downgrade

Thorne delivered a solution, but it came with the first major downgrade: The downgrade is not a failure of engineering