Which explains the B5 end, but not the Trek end. Why has no-one in Trek heard of jump gates, or hyperspace? Even if they added nothing to Trek tech capabilities, debatable, it's still the kind of discovery that would win a Noble prize. Someone would have to be supressing it, in every one of a myriad worlds, and if that, what else?
An interesting point of B5 continuity, that.
It's mentioned in certain parts of the source material that B5 jump drive is actually a form of interdimensional physics that normally takes younger races tens of thousands of years to develop. One race of the Ancients, the Kirishiac, actually had an interstellar empire founded on STL ships before they ran into the Vorlons and fought a major war against both them and the Shadows... and unlike Johnny Nuke'em, had weapon and defense technology nearly on a par with them.
This lead to the Vorlons' initial creation of the jump-gate network, which they made deliberately possible for the younger races to reverse-engineer and use for themselves. Specifically in order to make sure that people engaged in empire-building and such get -noticed- by the Gameplayers.--
"Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of General Zod has been approved."
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
An interesting point of B5 continuity, that.
It's mentioned in certain parts of the source material that B5 jump drive is actually a form of interdimensional physics that normally takes younger races tens of thousands of years to develop. One race of the Ancients, the Kirishiac, actually had an interstellar empire founded on STL ships before they ran into the Vorlons and fought a major war against both them and the Shadows... and unlike Johnny Nuke'em, had weapon and defense technology nearly on a par with them.
This lead to the Vorlons' initial creation of the jump-gate network, which they made deliberately possible for the younger races to reverse-engineer and use for themselves. Specifically in order to make sure that people engaged in empire-building and such get -noticed- by the Gameplayers.--
"Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of General Zod has been approved."
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.